National necessity is a sufficient argument for such a 

 step, and when the new system has been inaugurated, the 

 benefits will be readily appreciated, for Agriculture will have 

 been transformed into one common effort on the part of the 

 country to provide itself with a sufficiency of Home grown 

 essential foods, and thus be able to meet any emergency 

 that may arise in the future with regard to the cutting off 

 of Foreign supplies. 



FOREIGN COMPETITION. 



For many years previous to the outbreak of the war, 

 Home grown Farm produce has not been able to compete 

 with Foreign supplies even in our own Country. We all 

 know that consumers in our Towns and Villages have wel- 

 comed Foreign Bacon, Butter, Eggs and Fruit and have in 

 many cases preferred them to the Home Product for very 

 obvious reasons. 



True it is that some of our Farmers market the produce 

 of their own growing, in such a way and of such a quality, 

 as to compare favourably with that from any other Country ; 

 but it is the inability of Farmers in this country under the 

 existing organisation, to supply large quantities of many 

 essential Food Stuffs, of uniform quality and of a particular 

 grade and warranty that causes them to fall so lamentably 

 short of certain other Nations, even in holding and sup- 

 plying the markets of our own country. 



