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parliamentary influence must be acquired by market 

 gardeners and other cultivators, a matter of consider- 

 able difficulty. Lord Onslow (late President of the 

 Board of Agriculture), in the course of a letter to Mr 

 Pike Pease, M.P., had the following trenchant remarks : 

 " The amount of time devoted by the House of 

 Commons to Agriculture is out of all proportion to the 

 magnitude of the interests involved. ... If the 

 Agricultural Rates Act were eliminated it would be 

 found that to legislation promoted by the Board of 

 Agriculture the House could find time to devote only 

 six hours in the last four years (1902-1905). . . . All 

 classes interested in the cultivation of the soil should 

 make clear to their representatives the conditions upon 

 which they will continue to support them, and per- 

 tinaciously to press their needs in Parliament." 



Compensation and Insurance 



The liability of employers to claims for compensation 

 in the event of accidents befalling their workpeople is 

 so extended that it is only a matter of common prudence 

 to provide against such risks by insurance. Many 

 Companies undertake to secure the employer for 

 moderate premiums, but it is advisable to endeavour 

 to understand the extent of the liability, and how far 

 the various Companies really go in providing the grower 

 with security to cover the whole of this. The subject 

 has been concisely treated by Mr W. Fitzherbert- 

 Brockholes, President of the Lancashire Farmers' As- 

 sociation, in a leaflet (No. 6) issued by the Agricultural 

 Organisation Society, which should be read by all who 

 wish to gain an idea of a complicated and difficult sub- 

 ject. The following are the leading points. 



The Acts of Parliament affecting the question are (i) 

 the Workmen's Compensation Act of 1897, which in- 



