808 Council of Agriculture for Wales. [Dec, 



' The manual labour required for carrots will be approxi- 

 mately 5J times, for potatoes BJ times, and for roots 2J times 

 as great as that required for corn crops; for seeds hay it will 

 be approximately J, for meadow hay J, and for pasture J of 

 that required for a corn crop. 



k. The manual labour required in attention to a cow is 4 

 times that required in attention to a bullock, 8 times that 

 required in attention to a pig, 24 times that required in 

 attention to a sheep. 



I. For the year ending 81st March, 1022, the average 

 labour bill amounted to approximately £S 15s. per acre, but 

 varied considerably on different farms. Last year it should 

 not have been more than a quarter of the gross income, while 

 on the best managed farms it rarely exceeded one-fifth of the 

 gross income. Even last year, it should not have exceeded 

 80 per cent, of the net output, and, if the share which the 

 farmer is to receive is again to become a reasonable one, it 

 should not greatly exceed 40 per cent, of the net output. 



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COUNCIL OF AGRICULTURE FOR 



WALES: 



THE AGKICULTURAL POLICY RECOMMENDED 

 BY THE COUNCIL. 



A special meeting of the Council of Agriculture for Wales was 

 held at the Eaven Hotel, Shrewsbury, on the 13th October, 

 1922, with Mr. W. S. Miller in the chair. The meeting was 

 called in accordance with the decision of the Council at its half- 

 yearly statutory meeting in May in order to consider the report 

 of the Sub-Committee appointed to draft suggestions for the 

 formulation of an agricultural policy for Wales. The report of 

 the Committee was considered in detail and adopted in the form 

 in which it appears below. 



I. Production from the Land. — We are of opinion that the land in 

 Wales, which is mainly under grass, is not, from the point of view of the nation, 

 producing what it should do in the way of food. We are convinced that a 

 material increase in the production of cereals and forage crops is possible, and 

 that this would result in a like increase in the output of live stock and live 

 stock products. With the exception of a temporary change of practice during 

 the war, there has been a steady and striking diminution in the area under 

 cultivation in Wales during the period since 1871. A very large proportion of 

 the land that has gone out of cultivation is now under grass of extremely poor 

 quality, and the output from it is surprisingly low. That this land is capable 



