iigz 



ARMING IN Peace and in War. 



[mar., 



Seeds " Hay. — As for oats. For application in early spring. 



Meadow Hay. — For application 

 I cwt. Sulphate of ammonia 

 Superphosphate 

 J ,, Steamed bone flour 

 J ,, Sulphate of potash 



2f 



in early spring — Per cent. 



^Nitrogen 4-5 

 containing ' fol. phos. 16-7 

 J Insol. phos. 6*7 

 ( Potash 5-4 



The main object of introducing steamed bone flour into the 

 mixtures is that it may act as a " drier " and thus facihtate 

 distribution. Fine bone meal or castor meal might be used 

 instead, with similar effects. 



{This article is also issued separately as Leaflet No. 344.) 



FARMING OF THE UNITED KINGDOM 

 IN PEACE AND IN WAR: THE 

 PLOUGH POLICY AND ITS RESULTS.* 



Sir Thomas Middleton, K.B.E., C.B., 



Develop mm t Co mm issiov . 



White races, especially the peoples of the British Empire, 

 Central Europe, and the United States, largely increased their 

 consumption of meat in the period between the Napoleonic 

 and the Great War. From the standpoint of economy in 

 food this has been an expensive change, since the amount of 

 human food that may be produced from the soil in the form of 

 meat is much less than the quantity that may be produced in 

 the form of grain and vegetables. It follows that for peoples 

 who during war are compelled to live on a meagre diet, or who, 

 in reaping war's aftermath, are required to restore civiUsation 

 and to study economy in personal expenditure, there is no 

 better food policy than to return to the sufficient, if less 

 attractive, diet of their forefathers. During the period of 

 reconstruction and poverty that must follow war, as well as 

 throughout the struggle itself, a prudent nation should adopt 

 the motto " Down Horn, Up Corn," i.e., they should reduce 

 expenditure on the products of live stock and increase expendi- 

 ture on the direct products of the soil. 



This may seem to be a strange motto for a year, characterised 

 so far as British agriculture is concerned, by higher prices 

 for cattle than have ever been known before, and it must in 

 particular appear strange to the farmer, whose experience in 



* An address delivered to the Agricultural Society, University College 

 of Wales, Aberystwyth, on 19th December, 191 9. 



