CHAPTER IX 



WEEDS 



The following quotation was clipped from a local 

 newspaper and relates to an agricultural county- 

 council: 



" Disregarded 

 " A request by the Local Government Board 

 inspector to join another county in appointing 

 an inspector under the Destructive Insects and 

 Pests Act was disregarded." 



This raises one's hands in amazement. These 

 councillors are returned to consider the interests 

 of their neighbours, practically all of whom live on 

 or by the land, yet when a motion is brought for- 

 ward to do something really useful for agriculture 

 the fear of spending a small sum makes them " dis- 

 regard " the idea without a moment's hesitation. 

 They should be pilloried, and would lose their 

 posts if their constituents did not belong to the 

 most apathetic class in the world. Most of these 

 gentlemen are farmers themselves, but what of 

 that? The motion was disregarded! 



The incident is of evil omen. There was never 



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