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ness over security of tenure, transport, equipment, and the 

 game laws, than they did over a guaranteed price, which 

 few of them cared to see established as a permanent feature 

 in British agriculture, carrying with it as it does the danger- 

 ous tendency to encourage slovenly farming. I felt con- 

 vinced, too, that a guaranteed price of 68s. per quarter 

 for wheat would not help to produce a single extra acre 

 of wheat in this country. Whilst the farmer knew that 

 the world's price was approximately loos, a quarter, he 

 resented being paid only 763., and whilst he was in that 

 mood 68s. made no appeal to him. But as we shall see the 

 Commission was not allowed to investigate those regions 

 of reform which would be of permanent value to British 

 agriculture. 



