Land Problems and National Welfare 



(3) The lack of a widely extended system of 

 co-operation. 



(4) The deleterious effect of the star farmer. 



(5) The absence of systematic book-keeping 

 on most farms. 



(6) The wasteful treatment of manure. 



(7) The fallacy that growing wheat does 

 not pay, but that raising three-year-old bullocks 

 on average mixed farms does pay. 



(8) The undue dependence upon grass land 

 instead of arable for the source of cattle food. 



(g) The widespread neglect of grass land. — 

 If there is to be grass land let it be the best 

 possible. 



(10) The low milk yield of the English 

 dairy herds. 



(11) The extravagant feeding of beasts and 

 cows ; this certainly makes manure richer in 

 nitrogen, but it is not an economic way of 

 applying nitrogen to the soil. 



If these shortcomings could be surmounted, I 

 am sure that the average farmer would derive 

 far greater profit than now from his operations 

 on the land ; and if agriculture could be trans- 

 formed into a highly-organised industry, and the 

 waste of our cultivated land reduced to a 

 minimum, I think the agrarian population would 

 reap advantage under the various headings and 

 to the extent which I now suggest in detail. 



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