48 FARiMING ON FACTORY LINES 



or one rivet less to be put in the building of a ship. 

 In other words, independent of weather, every work- 

 day is an effective work-day for the industrial 

 workers. 



It is not so on the farm. A shower of rain often 

 prevents the whole staff of men and horses from 

 making progress with farm work, or may result in 

 work already performed having to be repeated. 

 Under our present tillage system, the more land the 

 farmer has under the plough the more he is at the 

 mercy of the elements and the greater are his risks. 

 Conversely, the greater the area a farmer has under 

 pasture the less the risk, " the more," to use the 

 farmers' own language, "he is independent of 

 labour." 



It is this frank recognition of the factors of risks 

 and labour dependence that has been responsible in 

 the past for the spread of pastoral farming. These 

 factors operate to-day, and will operate in the future, 

 but unlike pre-war days, we can no longer 

 be content with pastoral farming. The future of 

 our countries from an agricultural, a financial, a 

 national, and a military standpoint, demands the 

 production of more food and more wealth from the 

 soil of our homeland. Even our industrial life 

 demands it, for a large and cheap output of industrial 

 products is not possible when the industrial worker 

 is compelled to pay a high price for the food he 

 consumes. 



FARMING ON FACTORY LINES 



There is only one way by means of which the 

 farm can successfully compete with the factory, and 

 that is by running the land on factory lines, aiming, 

 as in a factory, for an even distribution of labour 



