.» THE WORLD'S MEAT FUTURE 



illustrate the scope of investigation and reform necessary to 

 place the industry on a practical and profitable basis. 



All this means national organisation, and national organisa- 

 tion is only a convenient term for expressing the highest form 

 <>f State co-operation with individual initiative and intelligence 

 without the domination of either. We want, more than any- 

 thing else in Australia, on the economic side of life, a new era 

 of primary production, a new spirit of conquest, renewed en- 

 thusiasm, the creation of more wealth, so that the Common- 



Champion Shorthorn Bull, Grand Duke of Clifton, Brisbane 

 Show, Q., 1918 



Exhibited by the Lomax Pastoral Co. 



Wealth may carry a larger population, and that there may be 

 national progress based upon better conditions and a standard 

 of comfort greater than that of any other country. All this is 

 easy to accomplish, and in no direction can it all be made 

 I k Nssible in less time than by the systematic conquest of natural 

 resources — the promotion of rural industries, of which the 

 greatest and most profitable for the nation is that of wool- 

 growing and meat-raising for home requirements and unre- 

 stricted sale oversea. 



It is by organisation — national and individual — Govern- 



