108 THE STATE AS FARMER 



The outcome of this Conference was the formation 

 of a small committee to inaugurate experiments in 

 fruit bottling and fruit and vegetable drying, the 

 Development Commission promising financial assist- 

 ance. These experiments are being carried out at 

 Dunnington Heath and at Wye College. According 

 to a recent report there is reason to believe the 

 result will show that the industries in question 

 could be developed on satisfactory and profitable 

 lines and that opportunities may be opened up for 

 the establishment of co-operative societies in this 

 connection. 



The Report goes on to show how the 

 subsidiary industry ot basket making has been 

 neglected, and how the growth of willow 

 and other trees would follow its revival. 



Here we are again in presence of the 

 fundamental question of gluts and whether 

 it is possible for a country to have them. 

 In my own opinion the whole of this argument 

 ' on profitable lines ' is beside the mark. Free 

 Trade may have introduced it, but Land 

 Tenure has been the cause of its nonsense 

 being talked and listened to. I cannot 

 conceive of our State really having gluts of 

 any kind, not even of children in Highland 

 valleys now denuded of them. The only 



