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A GREAT CHANCE FOR THE FARMER
LIVE STOCK AND ARABLE INTERESTS MUST BE LINKED.
Competition with the Foreigner.
The clue to the solution of the, duction. problem Hes in Mr. Davies" asser
. Moreover, such a scheme affects tion that all the varied interests of jonly the eastern counties of Eng- British farming here to be con-land, and ignores the western That is sidered. It remains to find out the counties and Scotland. most economical way in which this not to say that there is no in- direct help from a thorough wheat can be done.
policy.
that It must not be forgotten economy lies not only in the cost of any practical scheme, but in the amount of extra employment it will give.
The president of the National Farmers' Union seems to aim at a restoration of the pre-war state of agriculture. But he ignores some of the profound changes that have taken place.
Changes Slace the War. With all due deference, it seems to the writer that Lord Astor's The old proverb, "Up horn, down to indicate mistake lies in disregarding the corn," would appear plight of arable agriculture it that when cereal farming la not a self, while rightly stressing the paying proposition, livestock steps fundamental value of the livestock in to carry the burden. This is to industry and that Mr. Davies has some extent true of our post-war made the mistake of considering ers, when, incidentally, the con- High wheat production to be the key to verse has not held true.
led to a arable agriculture, and hence to all prices for cereals have agriculture.
neglect of fertility on the land in For even under the extended order to make present profits. acreage envisaged by the wheat It was in the greatest period of quota, the crop would probably not cereal prosperity since the '70's- amount to more than 7 per cent, of that is, from 1914 to 1922 or 1920 the total of our agricultural pro--that the 5,000,000 arable sheep of which Mr. Davies speaks largely disappeared. To some extent, it
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Butcher Ment,
Steak Sirloin
Sanaagen
Bullock's Breina
June 15, June, June,
1982, 1918. 1914.
Ote. Cts. Cle.
June 18, June, June, 1932 1918. 1914.
Cts. Cts. Ota.
Beef Sirloin
牛尾耙6
84 24
12
Prime Cut
30 28: 11
ปี
Chicken Capona, Small
Ib.
42
60
2+
Corned
40 28 12
*
Capona, Large
64
Roast
84 24
"
Duck
ВО
Breast
82
20
18
10
#
Doris
sach
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Soup
H
28 20
18
Eggs, Hen (cooking)
Steak
84
24 22
per dox, 36
"
Eggs, Hon (trunk)
M
46
80 35
新鮮物蛋
88
Fowls, Canton
lb.
75
38 26 20
par-set 17
Fowls, Hainan
60
10
Bạch 80
12 60 60
Goese
M
50
Pigeons, Canton
1.00
60
sach 50
"
» 1.00
$1.90
40
H
1b. 24 18 14
Ib.
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20
18
Turkeys, Hon
70
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10
Snipe
12
하
15 10
19
Pheasant
27 20 99
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20 13 14
8
"
#
sat $1.50 $1.00 $1.00
Tangue, fresh
Tongue, corned Head
Hump, Balt
#
19
+
Heart
3
Feet
Kidneys
12
Tail
Liver
#
"
Tripe
Calves' Head & Feet - Mutton Chop
1+
Leg
Shoulder
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Pig's Chitlings
Braina Feat
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2
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Hond
24
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Heart
Kidneys
+
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Fork Chop
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Loin
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Hoad & Fest....
24
Heart Kidneys Liver
is true, the war was responsible for | Sheep's this, but by no means entirely.
Thus easy profits in cereal grow. ing may well lead to a neglect of arable livestock farming. If this Sucking Pigs, to order?
is true under conditions of horse labour, it is more true now, owing to the improvements in mechanisa. tion which have taken place. One of the most serious public miscon ceptions is that in arable agricul ture alone is there any intensity of į employment.
As a matter of fact, the Inten-
2+
Suet, Beef
Mutton
Veal
Sausages
No. 1
Fish.
Barbel Bream
Carp
Catfish Codfish Crabs
Cattle Fish Dab
Fish
alty of employment in the old- Canton Fresh Water fashioned arable farming 'lay largely in the results of keeping livestock. Mr. Street's book, "Farmer's Glory." discloses the amount of labour claimed by
the shepherd.
Simultaneously, in the winter yarding of cattle the Intensive Dace labour les in the haulage of food- stuffs in bulk fodder, and in
the Dog Fa exigencies of the dung cart. This Eela, Conger has given rise to the delusion that arable land employs five men where one is employed on grass la And Frogs it is very doubtful whether the Garoupa old-fashioned methods of farming Gudgeon
Fresh Water .. Yellow
can ever return without asking the Herrings nation to pay mere than it can afford for it.
Halibut
Labrus
Since the war, arable ranching Loach has come more and more into the Lobsters foreground, while the intensive use Mackerel of grass land for dairy production Monk Flah has altered the whole ratio of em- Mallet ployment. One will find that even Oysters under the Hosier system of open-Parrot Fish air dairying there is more' employ-Perch ment given than in the arable ran- Pike ching, which has become almost the Plaice rule in some countries.
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$ $.8
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each 80
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Apples (California)
Fruits.
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Bananas (bride's)
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15
Coconuts ...
10
15
18
Lemons, China
W lb. 16
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80
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10
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釘補
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摊
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合桃山 30
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Oranges
Oranges (Canton) 新會都授
Pears (Canton)
Artichokes
+
18
#each 36
12
竹类角蹬瓜瓜瓜
#
exch
1b. 8
12
10
Beans, Sprout
Long Beet Root
Bitter Squash
Brinjals, Green
Red
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Vegetables, Etc.
Cabbage, Chinese
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Cass Shoots, burch .. Cauliflower (Large)
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Curry Stuff, English RE##
Cucumbers
Ginger, Toung
Old
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Indian Corn
Water Chestnuts
Lettuce
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18
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10
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18
16
12
15
28
28
16
27
23
(Small)
10
10
10
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18
*
Chillies, Dried
辣椒干
18 26
*
102
紅辣椒
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26
青花椒
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32
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27
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8
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18
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Mandarin 桂林咸路 Mushrooms, Fresh Okroes ...
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20
80
10
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36
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88
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8
86
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10
Japanese
日本集任
10
American
18
Pumpkin
22
Radinh
88
8
10
33
92
80
22 23
20
53
Turnips, Punti (Long) Vegetable Marrow ...
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12.
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More Food and More Employment.
maximum of efficiency and eco-which are interlocked, could nomy?
ox.
Pomfret, White
Thus, it does not seem likely that Pomfret, Black
an enhanced price for wheat will Prawna
do much to secure extra employment Ray
on arable land.
Rock Fish
In fact, many arable farmers Roach would have
of
goga to the pense
mechanisation caterpillar tractors
and
ex-Salmon
with Shark
other skate
equipment if it had not been Shrimps
for their inability row from their banka,
to
bor-Snapper
Sples
If, however, by a wheat quota we Tench
grant security to the wheat crop, Turbot
it is far more likely that the farmer Turtles, small fr. water
will then be able to find the credit
to reorganiss his system of arable farming.
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Ontons. Bombay
Parsley
Shanghai
Potato, Sweet
มุม
Rhubarb (Fresh)
Shallota
Spinach
Tomatoes
Taros
tion should make it possible for farmers and business men to de nearly all the rest
Credit and brains would, then
It would tackle a job which is now hopeless.
pand enormously. In a decade we It is very doubtful if the or- The sugar beet subsidy has been should save imports of £120,000,000) dinary wheel tractor shows any an expensive experiment, but it has per annum and employ about economy, over horse labour. On Increased arable employment and 400,000 extra workers. the other hand, the, caterpillar, made for better feeding. It might have a very large bearing on the The Government's part should then be to act as a guarantor and judge which can work with much more well be paid by adjustments of beef industry as well,
Rotational grazing leys would of quality. Thus milk should be increased power on as many work- Excise and Import Duty without ing days and In all weathers in hurting the consumer. In my save much of the dung cart, while paid for according to quality of which a horse can work, has alter-view the wheat quota is a sound animal food, rather than cereal for cleanliness and butter fat. Some ed the whole situation.
step, and far cheaper and more sale, would be the object of the compulsion as to the channels of Hence the mere growth of cereale efficacious than an import duty. ploughland. The animal is the marketing may be necessary for for sale off the farm have the un-It saves the Eastern Counties in farmer'a factory for finished grow the milk industry, so as to ensure desirable effect of depressing em- the transition period, but does ducts, The direct export of cereals a proper use of surplus milk,
Bacon and beef should be com ployment in arable areas rather nothing serious for employment or off the farm means that_raw than of increasing it It is true the lessening of imports. A proper materials are being sold. Hence pulsorily graded after slaughter that in certafa arable areas where policy for the Consumption of there is a lower value per acre in and paid for, according to grade.. the fields are small and the land home-grown malting barley would grain, and a lower employment in this way the inefficient would be Intersected by drains the advan-have effect on a wider arable area than when live stock produce is penalised and the redundant breeds
would disappear.ke tages of mechanisation will be much than wheat. But outside East marketed,ANUA less, and that in these areas Anglia a policy which would make Security From Dumped Goods. The placemeal marketing schemes There is nothing in our soil or and commissions are too slow and it will come much more slowly.it economic for arable, farming to But they are not the pre- be ancillary to live stock would do climate which should make it im cumbersome when the need is so dominating type of field in the more than anything else to give possible to compete with the urgent. We can save nearly great arable countries of the east employment and to save importa foreigner, save perbapa in meat £200,000,000 of imports and keep and southe
The probled remains twofold: 1. How may we save arable agri- culture in the period of reorganisa-
2 How may we direct the futurë of agriculturs. (#); to duce the
Thus a self-sufficient poultry from the Argentine. Industry would employ 80,000 or Two things are needed *40,000 more workers, and require of market, and organ ecent rations the produce of ask for organisa
security ist compel
foreign
hom
(counting Indirect employment) security well over half a million workers To off the dole, The chance is too
great to lose. JOU!
We could save £25,000,000 to £50,000,000 in unemployment, pay
000,000 to But the forsigno gooda sin to our health and Varacter
rodne--would
timable,
cive to We could
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