Land Problems and National Welfare 



from the elementary school to the agricultural 

 college. 



The assistance of occupiers of agricultural 

 land to attain a higher standard of cultivation by 

 the promotion of scientific research, demon- 

 stration holdings, and by instruction and ex- 

 periments in the science, methods and practice 

 of agriculture ; and by the organisation of co- 

 operation, instruction in the marketing of pro- 

 duce, and by the provision and extension of 

 small holdings. 



The revision of local taxation with a view to 

 the reasonable relief of land from its present 

 unfair share of the expenses to be borne by the 

 community, especially of those incurred in re- 

 spect of national services. 



The extension of facilities for, and the cheap- 

 ening of, the transport of agricultural produce ; 

 and the removal of any preferential treatment 

 of foreign over British produce. 



The development of subsidiary industries 

 affecting agriculture. 



The granting of facilities for the purchase 

 of their holdings by the occupiers of land. 



The simplification and cheapening of the 

 transfer of land. 



The establishment of a complete system of 

 co-operative credit banks. 



The increase of the agricultural estimates to a 

 sum adequate to the needs of the premier in- 



298 



