no A NEW AGRICULTURAL POLICY 



If any one doubt this, let him glance at a list 

 of Labour County Councillors completed on the 

 ist January 192 1. (See p. 109.) 



The only Councils which show anything like 

 an adequate representation of Labour, outside 

 the West Riding of Yorkshire, are the mining 

 counties of Durham and Monmouth. It is 

 impossible to say how many of these Labour 

 Councillors are farm workers ; but outside of 

 Norfolk I believe there are extremely few. 

 Labour does not yet seem awake to the import- 

 ance of capturing seats in the County Councils, 

 in spite of the fact that County Councils are 

 playing an ever-increasing part in the life of 

 the nation. 



Before the happy consummation of farm 

 workers, sitting as County Council members, 

 can be reached, I am afraid hundreds of 

 thousands of acres of arable land will be drift- 

 ing back to grass, and rabbit warrens and 

 pheasantries will be on the increase. 



It is of paramount importance to the com- 

 munity, from the point of view of stimulating 

 food production, to get skilled farm workers 

 appointed on the County Committees. It is 

 in the interest both of those who invest their 

 lives in agriculture as well as in the interests of 

 those who eat the bread they produce. Farmers 

 are said to be discharging many of their men 

 during this winter, and no exhortations, even 

 such as Lord Lee delivered at Leicester in 



