THE STATE AS FARMER in 



commissariat of soldier and citizen would 

 have marched in step, instead of getting in 

 each other's way. 



I must apologise for quoting so freely 

 the A.O.S. Report, but it bears so directly 

 upon my subject and in my own opinion 

 strengthens my argument, that it is difficult 

 to resist using passages such as these : 



It will be seen that the subjects which have been 

 treated in the preceding sections have all a direct 

 bearing upon the question of the increase of our home 

 food supplies, for it is only when additional production 

 can be made to pay that additional production can, 

 and will be, undertaken. Organisation has therefore 

 a very important bearing upon the increase of our 

 home food supplies, and for this reason the subject 

 has been much under the consideration of the Society 

 since the very outset of its work. In the early days 

 of the war, however, the question which occupied 

 the attention of the general public was not so much 

 the development of market supplies as the additional 

 production of vegetables for consumption in the 

 homes of the producers. Organisation would enable 

 those who wish to continue such additional cultiva- 

 tion to procure their seeds and other requirements 

 to the best advantage. But the chief concern of 

 the Society lies in endeavouring to place those who 

 produce foodstuffs for the market in such a position 



