Present Methods 



moral, and economic points of view for one 

 man to hold. It is clear that the time 

 has come for certain changes to be made 

 in our system of land tenure. Sixty years 

 ago in Denmark the ratio of tenants to 

 owners was the same as it is here to-day, 

 but gradually and wisely alterations were 

 effected until a system meeting the needs of 

 the times was evolved. 



M. The Government. 



For the last hundred years the Govern- 

 ment of this country has not only systemati- 

 cally neglected the land and the cultivator, 

 but in many cases has actually penalized the 

 land. It has devised no sound system of 

 land purchase ; it has done nothing to create 

 a system of agricultural credit ; it has failed 

 to create demonstration farms or to keep 

 careful records ; it has done little to en- 

 courage co-operation ; it has left the farmer 

 to battle against adverse transport diffi- 

 culties ; it has done nothing to promote land 

 settlement ; in short, it has done nothing to 

 create conditions favourable to agriculture. 

 Yet the Governments of nearly every other 



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