16 CONTINUOUS CROPPING 



dupe* "and Ip.wi jVigei, a farmer could afford to have 

 his workmen anrf Hoiises idle half the time, and even 

 /afcfdltb; l09^ JL, fe.w«C4;ops. 



Things have changed, however, and we must change 

 with them. In fact, we have changed — changed from 

 tillage to grass-growing. To-day only the very light 

 land and inferior land — ^in other words, land which 

 will not grow good grass — is now under the plough. 



THE WAR AND WHEAT PRICES 



Whilst war prices exist, corn growing is undoubtedly 

 a profitable undertaking, but who is to say what the 

 price of corn will be a few years hence ? Wheat in a 

 few years after the war may be cheaper than it was 

 before. The clearing and breaking-up of additional vast 

 areas in America, the Colonies, and other corn-growing 

 areas, the great development in agricultural motors 

 and other machinery greatly facilitating this work, 

 the opening of railways in these areas, all indicate 

 cheap corn after the war. 



But, while the foreign farmer may beat us as far as 

 corn growing is concerned, he cannot beat us in live 

 stock or in live-stock products, if we farm on progres- 

 sive lines. 



The United Kingdom is the stockyard of the world. 

 Of live-stock products milk is the chief, and it is the 

 only farm product in connection with which so far 

 the foreign farmer has not been able to compete with 

 us. Milk products, butter, cheese, and cream, he does 

 produce, but he cannot produce any one of them either 

 better or cheaper than we, if we set about our farming 

 in a better manner. 



Now, with all this farmers will more or less agree, 

 and have shown their agreement, in late years, by more 

 or less turning their attention to dairy farming, or stock 

 raising, as opposed to tillage. 



