INTRODUCTION. 



Agriculture is more or less in the melting pot ! The 

 present opportunities for development on more highly 

 organised, as well as on National lines, appear to be so unique 

 and to present such far reaching possibilities, that I have 

 ventured, somewhat reluctantly; to add yet a few more 

 pages to the printed matter of the day, in the hope that this 

 Booklet may prove acceptable and useful. 



The possibility of starvation has forced this country 

 to seriously examine and ruthlessly overhaul existing methods 

 of producing and distributing food. This has revealed many 

 defects, and to my mind one very serious defect has been 

 the utter lack of co-ordination between the Farm and the 

 Nation, which accounts very largely for the title selected for 

 this Booklet. 



It was difficult to find in pre-war legislation that the 

 State really regarded Home-Food production as of vital 

 importance to the existence of the Nation ; the Farmer 

 was neither asked nor required to produce those crops and 

 those classes of stock which would provide the maximum 

 amount of Food for the Nation. 



A few years ago I visited Canada, United States, Den- 

 mark, Sweden and Germany, and I confess that the thing 

 which impressed me most from the Agricultural point of 

 view, was not the size of their crops, their methods of growing 

 them, or the quality of their Live Stock ; but the highly 

 organised methods that were in some cases employed in dealing 

 with and distributing the produce of the farm. This, it appear- 

 ed to me, was the chief explanation why these countries had 

 been able to compete so successfully with the Home-Pro- 

 duct on our own markets. 



