WHAT OF THE HARVEST? 331 



It may be as Professor Pigou pointed out, that higher 

 wages will drive the inefficient farmer from business, but 

 that surely is not an undesirable consummation. What 

 the farm labourer has won in better conditions he will never 

 relinquish. Landlords may go ; the inefficient farmer may 

 go ; and if neither landlord nor farmer will cultivate the 

 land, hr, the peasant, will remain to reap what he has sown 



