New and Improved Methods 



fact that the conditions of the agricultural pro- 

 ducer cannot be improved without carrying 

 with it the improvement of all classes of the 

 community. If better conditions are created 

 for the agriculturist he will produce more. 

 If he produces more he will be in a position 

 to buy more implements, more tools, more 

 artificials, and other things provided by our 

 urban industries. Agricultural development 

 cannot be effected by penalizing one section 

 of the agricultural community, i.e. the land- 

 owner, and unduly curtailing his power of 

 expenditure. What is needed is the type of 

 landowner who in the first place is pledged 

 to development, and in the second, has 

 capital to effect it. Higher rents would give 

 him more spending power and would help to 

 raise the standard of cultivation as well. The 

 provision for the agriculturist of access to 

 capital is so necessary, that if it is impossible 

 under our present system for banks or for 

 voluntary effort to create the needed 

 machinery, then the Government must under- 

 take the work. And if careful thought is 

 given to the problem, it should be possible 

 to devise a system of credit under which the 



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