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four hundred acres of ordinary land will no longer be able to justify 
his existence. 
The carrying out of this kind of reorganisation demands a new standard 
both of general and of technical education in the farm worker. Indeed, 
the provision of short courses of instruction for specialist workers—in 
pig-keeping, milk production, tractor work and the like—is an urgent 
need. The cash value of skill and knowledge must grow with the 
increasing responsibility of the worker. 
I well know that the whole idea of ‘ factory farming ’—the growth 
of machinery and the specialisation of labour—is repugnant to many 
people. The variety of occupations on the one-man mixed farm, the 
pride of individual ownership and so forth are held to compensate for 
unconscionable hours of labour and small returns. But I have never 
been able to see that inhuman personal relationships need necessarily 
go with specialised occupations, short hours and high wages. Indeed 
I believe that, on the factory farm, it is possible to cultivate a kind of 
team spirit which is essentially a finer thing than the rather narrow 
independence of the small-holder. In any case, the greatest obstacles to 
a richer and fuller country life have always been poverty and lack of 
leisure. If we can remove these obstacles we shall have done much. 
