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The right to free culture. (Mark Lane Express. London, March. 

 1910). 



The official concessions granted by the English government in 

 Ireland and in Scotland, and the support promised in England by 

 the leader of the opposition to the growers of sugar beets, have 

 raised the question as to the right of free landowners to free 

 culture, expecially in a country like the United Kingdom where 

 agriculture is so highly developed. 



Every restriction of this liberty favours foreign producers and 

 places them in a position of superiority over the home farmer. 



III. 



General inquiries regarding Agricultural Conditions. Soil-sur- 

 veys. Agricultural Development. 



SIR HORACE PLUNKETT. The launching of a new agricultural 

 policy for English-speaking Nations: Better farming, 

 better business, better living. (The Rural Life Problem of 

 the United States. New York, Macmillan Company, 1910, p. 33). 



..." It has to be brought home to those who lead public opinion 

 that for many decades we, the English-speaking peoples, have been 

 unconsciously guilty of having gravely neglected one side, and that 

 perhaps the most important side, of Western civilisation. 



" To sustain this judgment I must now view the sequence of 

 events which led to the subordination of rural to urban interests, 

 and try to estimate its probable consequences. It will be seen 

 that the neglect is comparatively recent, and of English origin. 

 I believe that the New World offers just now a rare opportunity 

 tor launching a movement which will be directed to a reconstruction 

 of rural life. It is this belief which has prompted an Irish advocate 

 of rural reform to turn his thoughts away for a brief space from 

 the poorer peasantry of his own country and to take counsel with 

 his fellow-workers in the United States and Canada on a problem 

 which affects them all." . 



