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Agriculture is just as capable of being' reduced to system 

 and organisation as any other industry. Indeed, until we 

 do bring system and organisation into the industry we 

 shall continue to grope along in ignorance of how best to 

 use our resources. Consider the futility of having to 

 appoint a Royal Commission to discover the cost of 

 growing wheat ! But that was capped by the discovery 

 made by the Commission that there was no way of finding 

 the cost, and so the Ministry of Agriculture made a guess 

 (which it revised next week) and the Government based 

 its guaranteed prices on the revised guess. Until we do 

 organise the industry and get reliable data from properly 

 kept cost accounts, we have no means of knowing what 

 are the best means of developing the industry, or how the 

 best use can be made of the land, labour and capital of the 

 community. 



