436 LAND REFORM 



The foregoing remarks are not intended to cast any reflec- 

 tion on our own Board of Agriculture. That Board does its 

 very best with the money it has to spend. Out of an 

 appropriation account of above 140 millions sterling there is 

 the niggardly sum of ;£"! 36,000 placed at the disposal of the 

 Board for all purposes, and out of this amount there is less 

 than ^10,000 given for Agricultural and Dairy Education in 

 all England and Wales. This is the money sign — a trust- 

 worthy sign — of the small importance attached to agriculture 

 by successive Governments in this country. 



