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How to Pay for the Wai' 



to forget that an agriculturist, like a doctor or engineer, is 

 welcomed everywhere and for this reason that whilst a 

 handy agriculturist is equally able to earn his living in 

 town or country, a townsman is no use in the country. I 

 say this because, whilst they leave no stone unturned to 

 keep us well, or cure us if we fall ill, they are altogether 

 out of date as regards training us up to earn our living ; 

 they zcill only teach us townsmen's work, and so force us 

 to become consumers and not producers, whilst the world 

 needs producers rather than consumers. 



Production of Wheat pek acre in the undermrntioned 



Countries. 



(i) Denmark 



(2) Belgium 



(3) Holland 



(4) Great Britain and Ire 



land 



(5) Switzerland ... 



(6) GetDiany 



(7) Sweden 



(8) New Zealand... 



(9) Egypt 



(10) Norway 



(11) France 



(12) Luxemburg ... 



(13) Austria 



(14) Japan 



(15) Canada 



Bushels 

 44 "'JO 

 36-43 

 35-53 



31-81 

 30-63 

 30-63 

 29-88 

 26-32 



24-53 

 22-22 

 22-15 

 19-92 



19-33 

 19-03 



It is interesting to note what a comparatively poor yield per acre 

 America taken as a whole also shows. It is the same with potatoes. 

 Evidently the farmer element in the U.S.A. has yet to learn how it pays 

 to culiivate and manure the crop adequately and wisely. 



So much for the children, now for the grown-ups. 

 Long ago, my friend, Mr. Reginald Knock, who has 

 written many books on many lands, urged the Home 

 Government and local authorities to secure parcels of 

 lands abroad on which their own people could go to, and 

 so have " friends from home " to work with, whilst others 

 would train them to become farmers. Remembering this, 

 I published the following appeal in the August issue of my 

 paper {Tropical Life of London) and sent copies to some 

 300 leading men in all parts of the world. I did so as 

 wars are common to all people, and those yet to come will 

 prove as murderous, and probably still more wasteful of 

 life and limb than the one now being waged. All nations. 



