REMEDIES SUGGESTED. 95 



I\Ieanwhile we cannot leave things as they are. It may 

 be said that the first want of our Agriculture among those 

 indicated is better Education for farmers — farmers and all 

 connected with the exploitation of the soil, farmers grown 

 up and farmers growing ; farmers of the future as of the 

 present generation ; farmers, it may be, in occupation of 

 much land, and farmers plodding on their small holdings. 



Next in order of succession necessarily must come Organi- 

 sation, as a means of concentrating efforts and placing 

 Agriculture on a par with other callings, all of which are 

 organised and do the better for it — Organisation in producing 

 and in marketing ; Organisation for enforcing by the gentle 

 but efficacious force of self-interest larger production of 

 more marketable produce ; Organisation for creating 

 new markets, in which the farmer will stand on an equality 

 with the organised buyer and may himself dictate forms of 

 business conformable to his requirements ; Organisation 

 also to give becoming weight and power to his collective 

 voice in the contest becoming more keen, as section after 

 section of the community arms and mobilises for cham- 

 pioning its own one-sided interests in the battle of popular 

 forces. More in particular is Organisation needed for the 

 obtainment of the funds required to do justice to existing 

 opportunities by means of Credit provided on soundly 

 economic lines. For without adequate money there can 

 be no production. And there is no one else to provide it 

 on conditions appropriate to the case but the farmer 

 himself. 



A further great need to be provided is an adequate 

 supply of Labour — Labour adequate in quality as well 

 as in quantity — Labour which ma}^ be depended upon to 

 fail neither in its attendance nor in its efficiency. And 

 such Labour will have to be paid for in more ways than 

 that of increased wages, to which thus far our attention 

 has in the main been restricted. The provision of Labour 

 under this aspect naturally includes that of perfected imple- 

 ments and machmery, the instnimenta mttta, to supplement 

 the instrumenta vocalia — the latter of which will after the 

 war have a conspicuous part to play in agricultural economy. 



