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of production and keeping down its cost. Such 

 farms, worked by Guilds in which the workers 

 have as much interest relatively as the 

 managerial staff, would give an enormous 

 impetus to production. 



The spirit of men working as comrades, each 

 helping the others to lighten the labour of all, 

 on a large farm where fertile suggestions are 

 encouraged, where a sporting emulation im- 

 pels them to see that their horses, cattle, and 

 sheep shall be the finest in the country, and urges 

 them to increase the vield from each acre, and 

 to improve the speed with which the harvested 

 crops are carried, would surely be far different 

 from the mean and envious spirit often dis- 

 played by small holders or farmers, or even 

 labourers, secretive with their little bit of extra 

 knowledge. We shall thus stimulate the 

 growth of a regional as well as a national 

 patriotism, founded not on the hatred of other 

 countries, but on the love of one's own country. 



There would be no more hay left in windrows 

 on a fine afternoon with clouds overhead, or 

 corn left to stand in stooks when it should 

 be carried, to spoil after a night of rain, such 

 as one has witnessed again and again during 

 the last two years because the farmer grudges 

 paying overtime rates. 



The lonely figure working with leaden heart 

 in the middle of a wide field will no longer be 

 a familiar feature of our deserted countryside. 



