Land Problems and National Welfare 



two, three, or four times a year as occasion 

 mifj^ht demand. 



These combined societies acting in concert 

 would constitute the best way of furthering 

 the interests of agriculture in the country — 

 whether dealing with the County Council or 

 the local political associations. 



The final organised expression of agricultural 

 opinion would be given by Round Table 

 Conferences held in London as suggested in 

 my former scheme for consolidating existing 

 societies. 



There is nothing in the scheme I have just 

 outlined that would preclude any single society 

 from being national or central, and having its 

 headquarters in London. 



I do not put forw^ard the scheme as being 

 the best way of achieving the desired end — the 

 consolidation of the agricultural interests ; I 

 am quite content to think of it as a temporary 

 scheme biding the arrival of a better, but I do 

 not hesitate to put it forward — for the one 

 reason that it is comprehensive ; it deals with 

 the three agricultural classes and with all existing 

 societies. It may not be workable, on account 

 of lack of money to carry out any large plan 

 of organisation ; it may not be practicable, 

 owing to inter-society jealousies; but I am 

 convinced that the complete organising of the 

 agricultural interest will be impossible until 



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