146 A NEW AGRICULTURAL POLICY 



clamour for the employment of so many men to 

 the hundred acres. That will not help them in 

 the least. It is a perfectly natural cry, but one 

 which is productive not of bread but of wind. 

 Apart altogether from the great physical differ- 

 ences between the texture of hillside grazing 

 land and rich fenland there are the variations to 

 be found between arable field and arable field in 

 poverty and richness of soil. There is also the 

 marked difference to be seen between the capital 

 and the organising capacity possessed by one 

 farmer and another. There is many a good 

 farmer who, with up-to-date machinery, strong 

 horses, and a capacity for organising labour, 

 will produce far more corn from a hundred 

 acres with three men, than an inefficient farmer 

 will with six men. Farm workers should 

 clamour for a high standard of husbandry, and 

 insist upon it being carried out. They should, 

 above all, demand the right to be partners in 

 their own industry. If that were done there 

 would be no unemployed in their ranks. 



Imagine for a moment what splendid flocks 

 and herds and crops could be raised under 

 skilful management on the capital contributed 

 by the whole community, by utilising every 

 discovery of science, every newly - invented 

 leisure - giving implement, and harnessing 

 electric power to make that do all the donkey 

 work ! Every worker would have a direct 

 interest and pride in keeping up the standard 



