I 



OUR FOOD SUPPLY: 



PERILS AND REMEDIES. 



CHAPTER I 



Present and Suggested Sources of 

 Food Supply 



" Better business, better farming, better living." — Sir 

 Horace Plunkett. 



So many good qualities of heart are possessed 

 by the EngHsh nation that one may hope that 

 these will outweigh certain failings in other 

 directions. If, as Herbert Spencer said, the 

 aim of education is to produce people who 

 think, and think correctly, then our system 

 of education can hardly be described as fully 

 successful. The Englishman is not fond of 

 thinking ; nor are our politicians fond of 

 thinking. For the solving of problems it is 

 necessary to take thought, and to understand 

 a problem rightly it is necessary to consider 

 not only one part of it, but the whole, and the 

 whole in relation to other problems — but we 



