New and Improved Methods 



K. The Landowner. 



It is difficult to see how the desired 

 development in English agriculture can take 

 place unless landowners heartily and intel- 

 ligently co-operate. One of the first steps 

 to be taken is to run each and every estate 

 as an industrial concern, to make as much 

 money out of it as possible, and to see that 

 the men who work on the estate give a full 

 return for their wage. At present, particu- 

 larly on large estates, there is no doubt that 

 the estate staff do not put in the amount of 

 work per day that they would have to do if 

 working for any other than a landowner. 

 Morally this is bad for the men ; econo- 

 mically it is bad for the country. Again, in 

 general terms, if landowners would satisfy 

 themselves that all incoming tenants pos- 

 sessed working capital to the extent of ;^io 

 per acre, it would do much to raise the 

 standard of cultivation, and taking all things 

 into consideration this is now not an ex- 

 cessive sum to require. In the days of 

 agricultural depression, and particularly in 

 the case of large farms, landowners were 

 often forced to allow one tenant to take 



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