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of a fibrous food such as dried grains and a starchy food such 

 as maize. It is desired to emphasise here that scientific 

 accuracy is not aimed at in this assessment of values, but it 

 is felt that the figures given per ton give the farmer a rough 

 approximation of the value of his home-grown products. The 

 figure is used in this way. As shown in the table, with maize 

 at £7 7s. per ton, the farm value of potatoes is £1 15s. If, 

 therefore, a farmer has potatoes which he can market at, Bay, 

 £4 per ton, and the transport and marketing costs of selling 

 the potatoes per ton and of delivering the maize to the farmer 

 come to less than £2 5s., it clearly pays him to sell his potatoes 

 and buy in maize at £7 7s. per ton for feeding. Similarly, 

 with brewers' grains at £10 per ton, the farm value of good 

 clover hay is £7 Is. per ton. It will therefore not pay a 

 farmer to sell clover hay and buy in dried brewers' grains, 

 unless the price realised at market, deducting marketing 

 expenses and cost of delivery of the brewers' grains, comes to 

 more than £7 Is. per ton of clover hay sold. 



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CONCILIATION COMMITTEES IK 

 AGRICULTURE.* 



The whole of England and Wales is now covered by 

 Conciliation Committees which have been set up under the 

 Corn Production Acts (Eepeal) Act, 1921, to deal with questions 

 of wages and hours and conditions of employment of workers in 

 agriculture. In certain cases the representatives of local 

 employers and workers have arranged the formation of separate 

 Committees for parts of the areas formerly covered by single 

 District Wages Committees, with the result that there are now 

 56 Conciliation Committees as compared with the 89 District 

 Wages Committees under the Wages Board system. 



In four areas the Conciliation Committees have submitted 

 their recommendations to the Minister for confirmation and the 

 necessary steps have been taken, in accordance with the power 

 vested in the Minister under the Act. to confirm the Committees' 

 agreements. The details of the agreements so confirmed are 

 as follows : — 



(1) Hamhridqexlrire. — A wage rate of 37s. 6d. for a week of 50 hours 

 (excluding Sunday) shall be paid during the period from 22nd October to 

 the 2nd December, 1921, for all able bodied nun of 21 years of age 



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* This note explains the position as it existed on 21st November, 1921. 



