. Farmer and stockbreeder . ry Associations, which would formthe nucleus of a new society about to be registeredunder the name of the Derbyshire Farmers, Ltd. Asa result of meetings held at Wirkswortli, Tutbury mand Belper, £6,135 in additional capital had beensubscribed. He referred to the promise of the PrimeMinister of 4s. decrease in the cost of living in aworking mans household by the summer andobserved that it looked as if the reduction would fallupon the food producers. If that was goingto happen it only showed how necessary it was forfarmers to put themsehes in a position to dema
. Farmer and stockbreeder . ry Associations, which would formthe nucleus of a new society about to be registeredunder the name of the Derbyshire Farmers, Ltd. Asa result of meetings held at Wirkswortli, Tutbury mand Belper, £6,135 in additional capital had beensubscribed. He referred to the promise of the PrimeMinister of 4s. decrease in the cost of living in aworking mans household by the summer andobserved that it looked as if the reduction would fallupon the food producers. If that was goingto happen it only showed how necessary it was forfarmers to put themsehes in a position to demandjust treatment. They must strengthen themselvesby combination eo that they could bring pressure tobear upon the Government when the time came toget what was reasonable for agriculture. Theymight even in the interests of the nation and theconsumers be called upon to take a firm stand andsay they were determined to have fair prices fortheir produce to enable them to pay good wages andmake a reasonable profit on Photo by] Hereford Bull, BOUNDS IDEAL. [Biutin. 1st and champion Hereford Herd Book Show and Sale. 400 THE FARMER AND STOCKBREEDER March 10, 1019 Future Policy of Agriculture IS ENGLAND A GRAIN-GROWING COUNTRY There is a long article in the February number jof The Journal of the Board of Agriculture by jSir T. H. Middleton, which gives one plenty offood for thought. The main argument is thatGreat Britain must in future remain an arablecountry. In this I think he is wrong. Weadmit that many changes were forced uponagriculture during the war which may have beennecessary. Undoubtedly they would have beenwrong before the war, and as surely they willbe wrong when the world is at peace, lfist-ovteaches us that we have a great war about oncein a hundred years, so tltat the probabilitiesare all against another for at least fifty years,by which time our colonies will lie great were the Dominions and mother countryso closely knitted together as they are
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