CHAPTER VI 



HOW AGRICULTURAL COMMITTEES SHOULD 



BE FORMED 



CERTAIN conclusions might, I think, 

 fairly be arrived at from the foregoing 

 chapters : That a great deal of the land 

 of Great Britain is mismanaged and ill-culti- 

 vated ; that as dwellers in a thickly-populated 

 island, living within a very limited area of 

 agricultural land, we cannot afford to leave 

 the land ill-cultivated ; that War revealed to 

 us that private enterprise could not be trusted 

 to meet the national needs ; and that farming 

 by inspectorship has failed, and will fail, to get 

 the land properly cultivated. Private enter- 

 prise has broken down, and private enterprise 

 supervised by inspectors is also breaking down. 

 I go further and say, as the majority of the 

 farmers say, that farming by inspectorship is 

 intolerable, and is bound to break down. The 

 Welsh member who declared in the House of 

 Commons that he would rather have the whole 

 hog of nationalisation than farming by inspector- 

 ship, spoke sound common sense ; and if any 



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