. Farmer and stockbreeder . face an agri-cultural world of costs of production remaining some-where nearly level and the prices obtained for pro-duce falling. He was not surprised, therefore, thatfarmers were anxious. EX-OFFICERS AS FARM STUDENTS Less than 50 per cent, of the farmers of Mont-gomeryshire who were appealed to to take ex-officersas farm students for whom they would receive week in respect of board, lodging and training outof the ex-officers gr/.nt of £150 a year, have con-sented to do so. At a meeting of the County WarAgricultural Committee at Welshpool on Friday weekpartic
. Farmer and stockbreeder . face an agri-cultural world of costs of production remaining some-where nearly level and the prices obtained for pro-duce falling. He was not surprised, therefore, thatfarmers were anxious. EX-OFFICERS AS FARM STUDENTS Less than 50 per cent, of the farmers of Mont-gomeryshire who were appealed to to take ex-officersas farm students for whom they would receive week in respect of board, lodging and training outof the ex-officers gr/.nt of £150 a year, have con-sented to do so. At a meeting of the County WarAgricultural Committee at Welshpool on Friday weekparticulars were received of a new Governmentscheme for discharged men in manual farm work,the farmer to receive 17s. 6d. a week for the mansboard and lodging while he is in training and theman to receive the balance of a grant of 30s. aweek. A poor response from farmers and men waspredicted. The secretary reported that severalmen on the books of the Labour Exohange had beeninterviewed but all had declined to engage in 652 THE FARMER AND STOCKBREEDER April 14, 1919. Burden of the New Wage FARMERS IMPOSSIBLE POSITION Compared with this time last year, the pro-posal of the Wages Board for au increase of6s. 6d. in wages meant really 10s. 2d. a weekincrease, and was a rise of 80 per cent, withoutany rise in the price of produce. It brings us toan impossible David Black, the president of the East SuffolkFarmere Union, uttered these words at a greatmass meeting of farmers at the Town Hall, Ipswich,who gathered to discuss the question of the proposedincrease in wages and reduction in the workinghours of the agricultural workers. Mr. Black em-phasised that the proposed increase in wages did notcome from the Suffolk District Wage* Committee,who had never been officially consulted. Mr. Blackcomplained in the strongest terms of the constitu-tion of the Central Wages Board from the point ofview of the representation of the Eastern in the corn-growing cou
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