A BUSINESS PROPOSITION. 



Food Control and the A.W.S., I am inclined to think there is 

 a fighting chance for farmers to control their own business. 



In conclusion, I commend to the attention of farmers that 

 simple instrument, the funnel. The wide end should be at our 

 pockets when we receive, the narrow end when we pay not 

 the reverse as at present. 



APPENDIX. 



Some of the figures in the tables below are very rough approxi- 

 mations, and are used in the text merely to show tendencies, as 

 in the case of rent, which in Table I (p. 62) is shown as 22,000,000 

 and I7'3 per cent, of the sales. In Table II it is shown at the same 

 figure in money, but is only 8'6 per cent, of the estimated in- 

 creased sales. This is to indicate the manner in which the farmers 

 would gain through increased volume, if the rent could be fixed. 



No conclusion is drawn in the text except from official figures. 



TABLE II. FARMER ORGANISING. 



Expenses. 



Labour . 



Feed and fertilisers 



Rent 



Cattle for feeding 



Implements 



Farmer . 



Sales. 



Millions. 



i 

 105 



95 



36 



5 



12 



^255 ioo 255 



per fanner. 

 190 per farmer on assumption of 10 per cent, of sales for miscellaneous 



expenses and interest on capital. 



Previous figures arbitrarily increased as to sales for an assumed increase 

 see text. 



TABLE III. LANDLORD ORGANISING. 



Labour . 

 Feed and fertiliser 

 Cattle for feeding 

 Implements 

 *Farmer . 



Landlord for return on capital and 

 organisation expenses 



169 



86 



66-0 



*^ioo per fanner. 255 IO 



Table with the same assumed increase as in Table II, arranged to show 

 what landlords might expect if they organised the industry. 



