Land Problems and National Welfare 



landowners attend ! 



It does not seem possible to devise any single 

 society which is attractive to all agriculturists. 



There are still many farmers who hold that 

 the Chambers are working on the right principle 

 in including landowner and farmer : well and 

 good — let them join the Chambers. And there 

 is the National Farmers' Union available for 

 those who hold the opposite view. To meet 

 these diverse sentiments it is necessary to have 

 various societies that will appeal to different 

 individuals. 



The first essential is, as I have already said, 

 that all farmers should join some society ; and, 

 when the combined societies have a membership 

 of 150,000 or 200,000, agriculturists will indeed 

 be a power in the land. At present all the lead- 

 ing societies. Chambers of Agriculture, National 

 Farmers' Union, North Eastern Counties Fede- 

 ration (including the Darlington Farmers' Union), 

 Yorkshire Farmers' Clubs, to mention the most 

 important that occur to me, lumped together 

 have barely a membership of 40,000, and there 

 are over 400,000 tenant farmers in England. 



The second essential is that harmony should 

 exist between the various associations, and a 

 perfect co-operation. 



The National Farmers' Union, besides being 

 a strongly political body of the non-party order, 

 is also a farmers' defence society and has done 



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