106 A NEW AGRICULTURAL POLICY 



the owner. Besides, in any national scheme of 

 reconstruction, eventually the public ownership 

 of all land is inevitable. Thus the State will 

 become the owner, and the two classes that we 

 shall have to deal with in large numbers on the 

 land in the immediate future will be farmers 

 who are still tenants, or bailiffs, managing for 

 Committees, or the State, and workers who will 

 be copartners. 



For, after all, there is no reason why agri- 

 culture should not adopt the principle laid down 

 by Lord Robert Cecil when he spoke about 

 the present industrial unrest. "The real solu- 

 tion," he said, "is to give every one concerned 

 a direct share in the profits, in the management, 

 and in the capital of each business." Indeed, 

 we have already begun to make a start in this 

 direction by the farm settlements at Patrington 

 and elsewhere. But I am running too far 

 forward in my subject. 



We must get our Board of Management 

 clearly defined, and give reasons for the consti- 

 tution and for the personnel of the administrative 

 bodies. 



Under the Corn Production Act farmers and 

 workers were allowed to choose their own 

 representatives to sit on the Agricultural Wages 

 Board, whilst the Board of Agriculture appointed 

 the remainder. A similar method, with modi- 

 fications, might be followed in forming Agri- 

 cultural County Committees. The third 



