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cultural industry, as farm managers, or agri- 

 cultural economists, or accountants, or in any 

 other expert capacity, if either the farmers, the 

 farm workers, or the Minister of Agriculture 

 chose to appoint them. Personally, I should 

 be very sorry to see the County Executive 

 Committees of Devon, Lincolnshire, Norfolk, 

 Staffordshire, Somersetshire, Hampshire, and 

 Essex without the services, for instance, of 

 landowners who are serious agriculturists, such 

 as Mr. Acland, Mr. Christopher Turnor, Sir 

 Ailwyn Fellowes, Mr. Buchanan, Lord Bledisloe, 

 Lord Selborne, and the Hon. E. H. Strutt. 



That a third of County Agricultural Com- 

 mittees should consist of farmers I think will 

 be agreed by all classes. The real innovation 

 is the proposal that a third should consist of 

 farm workers. The argument that there are 

 farm workers already appointed to those agri- 

 cultural committees may be brushed on one 

 side by pointing to the fact that it is only in 

 one county — Norfolk — where there is the 

 amazing number of six or seven agricultural 

 labourers sitting on the Committee. This has 

 been due largely to the fact that the well- 

 organised union there, the National Union of 

 Agricultural Workers, has had the common- 

 sense to finance the County Council candida- 

 ture of several of its members. 



Though the Minister of Agriculture, under 

 Section 7 of the Ministry of Agriculture and 



