S INTRODUCTION 



produced from the land of these islands with all the intensity and 

 reasonable economy that good brains, sound training and hard 

 work can supply. To do this involves some change in our cattle 

 husbandry, but it involves, further, a reformation in the whole 

 of our agricultural community. 



The landlord must realize that to lead his own class intellect- 

 ually is his first duty, and that failure to do that work, whatever 

 may be his services to the rest of the community, leaves his 

 first and .greatest obligation undischarged. The landlord's 

 clients the farmers have to forget their prejudices and learn 

 that their profit alone is not all that is asked of them in their 

 work for the State. They have to realize that the unfortunate 

 past is to be forgotten, and that the future demands that they 

 combine production with profit. The farmer's colleagues their 

 labourers have still more to forget. They must learn that in 

 the future the State does not call for underpaid drudgery un- 

 willingly given, but means to have intelligent labour willingly 

 given for a living wage. 



