CHAPTER IV 



POSSIBLE DEVELOPMENTS 



In order to bring about the intensification of agriculture 

 that is desired, five direct methods of action by the State 

 are available, over and above indirect methods like 

 education or such legislative changes as may remove 

 some of the difficulties attaching to the access to land. 



I. Industrialized Farms 



In the forefront I should place the development in 

 Great Britain of extensive farms worked upon the same 

 principles as large industrial concerns. British agri- 

 culture is distinguished from that of other old settled 

 countries by the comparatively large size of its holdings ; 

 its typical farm is one of from 200 to 500 acres, and the 

 advanced position that our agriculture obtained during 

 the early years of the nineteenth century— the develop- 

 ment of improved methods of cultivation and of our 

 notable strains of pedigree stock and seeds — was due to 

 the enterprise of the larger farmers working with con- 

 siderable capital. The process has, however, not gone 

 far enough, and the existing tenant farm does not con- 

 stitute a large enough economic unit to utilize to the 

 full modern developments of organization and scientific 

 knowledge. 



This statement does not fail to recognize that actually 

 the holdings in this country are very often too large for 

 the occupier's capital, so that they are worked at a low 



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