162 THE AGRICULTURAL CLUB. 



" Some farmers failed to realise that their men were human 

 beings and had rights as well as duties. Employers should 

 take a greater interest in the way the men did their work. I 

 always advocate the encouragement of intellectual pursuits 

 to interest the men after their work." 



" Distrust on the farmer's part would lead to dishonesty 

 in the men." 



" The housing question will have much to do with the 

 future of village life, and it would be a good thing for the 

 agricultural labourer to become the owner of his cottage." 



" In my district tied cottages are a safeguard to the 

 worker. Each farm was equipped with cottages just as it 

 was equipped with buildings, and when the men were 

 engaged they went into the house. If they left they knew 

 they could walk into a cottage on the farm they went to. 

 There is no sounder system." 



" I have no fear for the farming community if they get a 

 fair field unhampered by restrictions and control. The 

 control exercised by the Government was a marvellous 

 example of how not to do things. No profession needed 

 more common sense than farming." 



" Intensive cultivation is not a poor man's enterprise." 



" Private enterprise has brought British Agriculture to 

 the position it holds to-day." 



" In the past I thought tenancy was best, but now I think 

 the occupying owner is in the best position." 



"Tenancy on a good estate is the best system." 



" There was said to be a great deal of agitation on the part 

 of the agricultural labourer to secure more money and 

 shorter hours, but it was only the work of a small number of 

 agitators. I have never heard of anything of that nature 

 in any district or on my farms." 



" If farm accounts had been kept it would have been good 

 for the farmers, but bad for the consumers, for in that case 

 milk would never have been sold at such a low price in 

 pre-war days." 



" There was no better system than that one class should 

 own and another should farm." 



" The revolution in wages and conditions of employment 



