. Farmer and stockbreeder . e their fellow-countrymen could be settled onthe land the better for the land and the better forEngland. They were drawn by ties of gratitude andaffection to their soldiers and 6ailors, and desired togive them a fair chance of success. That broughthim to the question of the price to be paid fer theland. All they asked for was a fair price. Withregard to the death duties, they were the last peopleto complain of the burdens placed on their shouldersin connection with the war. They had been blamedand attacked, justly or unjustly, but they hadgiven everything in this wa
. Farmer and stockbreeder . e their fellow-countrymen could be settled onthe land the better for the land and the better forEngland. They were drawn by ties of gratitude andaffection to their soldiers and 6ailors, and desired togive them a fair chance of success. That broughthim to the question of the price to be paid fer theland. All they asked for was a fair price. Withregard to the death duties, they were the last peopleto complain of the burdens placed on their shouldersin connection with the war. They had been blamedand attacked, justly or unjustly, but they hadgiven everything in this war—money and blood—andtaken nothing. All they asked in regard to the deathduties was that when a landowner had made greatsacrifices to enable his heirs to meet the death dutiesthat provision should not be added to the corpus ofthe estate. Why did they need a Central LandownersAssociation at all? Because in these days an in-terest that was unorganised inevitably fell to thepound. Other treat classes interested in the land. fhoto 6y] [ Attwaters Shorthorn bullKELMSCOTT SOLUS. were organised; the farmers had their NationalUnion and the labourers their union, and it was upto them to do the same for their class. They wereproud of their class, because they believed therewas no class which, from generation to generation,had been imbued with a greater sense of publicduty or more devoted to public service, and that hadbeen evidenced not less, but more, during the pastfive years under the stress of war. Col. Abel Smith, in seconding a resolution regard-ing the alteration of rules, reminded the meetingthat a new class of landowners had arisen, namely,the farmers who had bought the land they formerlyoccupied. He thought the association should bebrought before this new class of landowner, as theiradhesion would do much to strengthen the organisa-tion, i 0 , THE AGRICULTURAL ORGANISATION SOCIETY During the week ending May 17 nine additionalmeetings have been held in connection
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