CHAPTER XXIII 

 A NEW AGRICULTURAL PROGRAMME 



Reference has been made in previous chapters 

 to the experiments of Denmark and Australia on 

 the control of the food supply and the development 

 of agriculture along new lines. These countries 

 have worked out a comprehensive programme for 

 the ending of tenancy, for easy credit, for placing 

 men upon the farm, and for aiding them in many 

 ways in the marketing of their produce. Germany 

 has adopted a similar policy, and several hundred 

 thousand persons have been placed on the land as 

 home-owning farmers. Even Russia had a big pro- 

 gramme in process of development before the com- 

 ing of the war, while Great Britain has spent hun- 

 dreds of millions in the conversion of the Irish ten- 

 ant into a contented home-owner. 



As a result of these efforts tenancy has all but 

 disappeared in Denmark, while in Ireland home- 

 owning will soon be the rule. Denmark has become 

 the world's agricultiu-al experiment station. There 

 is little emigration from that country. The peo- 

 ple are too prosperous at home. To such an extent 

 has education been carried, and so fully protected 



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