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VICTORY in the war depends

supplies of food.

There must be production and import to feed the populations here and on the fighting fronts. There must be production at home and import from abroad to supply our needs in feeding- stuffs for beasts and poultry. ·

What are the prospects and the possibilities?

First of all, our requirements. In spite of the rationing, we need moro food now than we did before war began. That increase in our needs is due to the soldiers, who must be fed on a fighting basin.

That is to say, they must have the supplies necessary for men exposed to the elements, undertaking heavy Inbour, working long hours at ardu- ous tasks and strenuous duties.

Then again, there is the immense inflow of troops from overseas, and the camp-followers and refugees from many lands.

The small sum left by the lute James Savage, Prime Minister of New Zealand, is welcome evidence that there are political leaders who approach, their high office with thought of self-enrichment.

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To some extent these extra demand's upon our food

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In 1870, with a population of 26 millions, we had 171⁄2 million acres of arable land. Now we have 45 millions of population and under 12 million acres in cultivation. How can we make up that shortage in our food production?

by LORD

BEAVERBROOK

of Norway, making three round trips. in a year from Australia, Canada, and the River Plate.

It is as though the entire mer- cantile marine of the United States of America was at our disposal for one voyage, with all the produce that these ships could carry.

What a gift! What a benefaction! What splendid help in time of trouble!

And, by reducing the wartime pressure upon shipping, we would do something to prevent an undue rise in freight charges.

The money paid to a shipowner for carrying a cargo of grain to a British harbour actually amounts to. more than twice as much as the charge before war broke out..

This immense increase in freight rates is one of the most important factors in promoting a rise in food prices.

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So by this increase in production. that we project, and by this economy In consumption, coupled with diversion to home-grown foods, we help to protect ourselves against. further rise in the cost of living.

4 AND there is one more con- Atribution that can be offer-

stocks are offset by the rationing restrictions on those who lead shel- stock in reserve. And there is no look for a swift increase in the home ed by almost every member of the tered lives and pass their days in store of food so good as animals in production, provided that the feed- public. It is the contribution he can

are available ing-stuffs

10 the make in the guise of a producer in sedentary occupations.

the pasture.

a small way

For garden patches ever so tiny enn be cultivated. A few potatoes. WHERE then must we econ- here, a bed of carrots there, some beetroot where the land is well fertilised.

So here is a problem Intensifled So when you hear the old, bad farmers. by the incidence of the war. Indeed, argument which thoughtless people we have a good idea of the degree put forward that it is easier to im- to which food consumption increases port beef than feeding-stuffs, reject in war. For it has been estimated. When you hear the story that

wartime situation?

Perhaps France, among the demon to help us. What can we expect diverting our consumption to

omico?

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THE prefix "Special to the Telegraph Is used by the "longkong Telegraph to indicate news which is strictis cepsright under the provisions of the Telecommuni→ after the experience of the last war more food value is obtained by

In beef, because we buy half our The consumer then has the catis cations Ordinance, 1930. Buch new as

that food supplies must be increased farming for grain and potatoes than bears the indication “UP* is received in flongkong on the date of publication by

as much as 20 per cent, of the total can be got out of beasts, reject it beef from abroad. And that is a faction of feasting on his own pro- the United Press Associations, who re- consumption of any country engaging too.. We have plenty of acres for situation that can only be remedied duec, the pleasure of taking some

botti.

In part and over a long time. servo all rights and forbid republication. N

nation bent on the preservation of either wholly or in part without previous in battle front.

Bacon, too, should be consumed part and share in the equipment of That is the broad picture of what arrangement,

To consider the situation fully, we must first of all have a clear concep- waits to be accomplished in develop with economy. We produce less ihan society,

There is no other ruch satisfaction tion of the relative importance of home production and imports from ng production. That is the main a third of the bacon we cat. And

task. But there is also consumption, while increases in production are in the human breast as that derived abroad Into Britain.

Two-thirds of the food we eat What can be done in that direction most desirable, we cannot expect to from a well-cultivated garden.

1 have referred to the contributions There is much to be said for This is a matter in which the devoting ourselves to securing in- from (1) the producer; (2) the con- grown in our own fields.

then, the Government. There is no denying that home

The Government must not take.. production ought to have been speed whole population is interested. Every creuses in other directions Where sumer; and (3) the gardener. Now ed up before the war. But there is household is concerned. So also are results will be swifter and thore

Well I remember October 19, 1017, We should cat less mutton and agricultural labourers from the soil. no use in looking back longingly into the restaurants and the clubs, and, satisfactory.

lamb. For we graze on our own when an immense effort was made the the past. We must peer into the indeed, every public place where

food is served. future Instead.

And the whole pubile should co- pastures less than half the sheep that to find skilled ploughmen in We must consider the contribution

with the producers by we need.

Army. A great comb-out took place We which can be made by home produc- operate

the We should use less sugar.

on a demand from the Board of cratic countries, has been con- from the fields and the farmers of foodstuffs which can be grown in should make a point of securing this Agriculture for 10,000 skilled plough-

economy. Our home-grown sugar men. amounts to a third of the sugar we Within a month there was an in- spicuous for its Chief Executives Britain? What can we ask them to our own country; do for us now?

cat. And we eat too much of It A sistent plea to the War Cabinet for reduction in the national consumption more ploughmen and more labourers. who have personally preferred to

could be effected with benefit to the For a most wasteful situation had stimu- notable live in humble style. A

FIRST and foremost come health of the community,

arisen. The farmers had been Flats We should example was Emile Loubet, Pre-

Now it has been shown (1)-that-lated-to-increase-production. Now. FIRST we sident during the Dreyfus case, who

much bigger acreage under more of them, at the expense of increased production will go a very they were left without the supplies the plough. J. F. Wright tells me items of diet which must be carried long way to fulfil our needs; (2) of labour, and their efforts were was a man of humble means

that economy In consumption, with frustrated on that account. And that the present programme has to Britain from over the seas.

This time let us avold that mis-

habits.

We grow all the potatoes we re more reliance upon foods that we His successor, Armand brought half a million additional

aeres into our total of ploughed lund. quire at present. But we could ex- can grow at home, will also give us take. Let us escape that error. Fallieres, of pensant stock, could be

It is not enough. It is not as much tend the acreage under this erop great benefits.

A from 610,000 acres to 800,000. In area of scen after retirement tending his as we have a right to expect, A

method must be devised by which the year 1018 we had an

than 800,000 acres growing

VERY available mun must little southern vineyard. Poincare, the arable land of Britain is increased more

be turned to agricultural. though comfortably provided for, by four million acres. And it is potatoes. If we get the increased

pursuits. Labourers must be called perfectly possible to achieve that production, it would then be the lived modestly and never travelled result. The land is there, waiting task of the citizens to use the in-

creased production.

We may expect to save half the back not only from the Army, but by limousine if a railroad was for the plough.

Back to 1070, that must be the cry, The potate is an article of food money that we send abroad to pay also from elty occupations. Wherever available.

1870, when, with a population of 28 possessing immense nourishing qua- for purchases of food. Half the food an experienced farm hand can be milions, we had 174 millon acres illes. We cat four pounds of is not an over-estimate of what con found he should be persuaded to It will be said that economic con- of arable land, as against the 1940 potatoes a week each. That con- be done. If the arable acreage is return at once to the cultivation of

un additional 4,000,000 with the figure of 45 millions of population sumption should be increased, with increased from 12,000,000 acres by the soil. and less than 12 million acres, benefit to the nation's food position

that would ditions in the country districts stand This would be a development im- and advantage to the well-being of increase in livestock

accompany that expansion in tillage, in the way. Nothing of the sort. home sup- the community.

Tell the farm labourers of Britain mensely increasing our Liberal wartime premier and ori-plies of food for man and beast

Ten per cent. of potato flour in we would be going a long way to-

wards the objective.

who have strayed from the soil that ginally a provincial reformer, was Then we can increase our livestock bread is desirable. The mixture does

By reducing our import of food the defence of their country urgently an exception. So was Ramsay Mae-n every direction, especially, it we not cause any defect in the loaf.

we may look for a big saving in necessitates their return to the land, and they will respond with good will. have plenty of fodder. We can in- Next in Importance comes oatmeal. Donald, first Labour Prime Minister. erease our herde, which have lately A magnificent article of food. More foreign exchange.

There is perhaps no other dircellon nourishing than white bread. And

In Britain, tradition has usually set the Prime Minister among the possessing classes. Lloyd George,

In Australia, the late Mr. Joseph A. Lyons, who died Inat Year, left only £836.

can look for a

suffered serious decline,

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AN

ND how will these benefits

be bestowed upon us?

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But do not ask the patriot to pay price.

John Edwards tells me that, since in the form of porridge, taken with in which we can achieve a compar-

our reserve of be well rewarded. That his social.

maintained themselves in alioepts. 60,000,000 on the poultry farms and plough. And oata are a very easy raw materia) essential for -war.

cd.

Let him know that his labour will the outbreak of war, our cattle re- milit, containing more food value able economy in

condition will be well provided for. sources have been depleted by half than bacon and eggs, and just as foreign exchange.

In the last year of peace we spent And that the welfare of his family a million head out of 8,000,000. That palatable. American Presidente, while enjoy-our total stock of live pigs has gone We produce half the oat products £361,000,000 in importing foodstuffs, will never be neglected again.

The Government should also pro- million out. of we eat. But there is no reason why The saving of half of that immense ing the financial advantages offered down by half

3,750,000.

we should

Hot expand the nerenge sum would strengthen our financial vide means for training women for in their newly developed country,

Gilbert Kidner estimates that the under oats to the point where we position immensely. It would re- the land. And the efforts that have have by no menna consistently shortage of feeding-stuffs has caused grow at home all that we consume. lease a huge sum of money for the so far been made to attract the atten- loss of Ave million birds out of The acres are there. They await the purchase of the implements and the tion of women to the land have fall- It need nrose, we could buy a fleet Yet it must be within the resources in the farmyards of Britain.

crop to grow. Almost any type of

of thousands of American airplanes of a good man, with powers from There is certainly a pressing neces- land will give a good yield.

out of the money we save by deval- the Government, to establish proper ity for an increase in bens. For

It would not be a difficult task to ing ourselves to our own home food training centres for women which we should produce all the eggs we

grow all of our cats. In fact, it can programme. We could do it without will attract them. It should be pos require.

be accomplished with Case and

throwing on to the market one addi- sible to turn out such competent facility.

tional bar of gold in British owner- women workers that the farmers

will be enger to employ them. ship.

We would also relieve the pressure They would be especially suitable Upon shipping tonnage. The fewer to look after pigs and poultry. And

President Washington began as a most the wealthiest landowner in, the United States, with tens of thousands of acres and hundreds of alaves. Yet as a result of the war Now this decline in cattle, pigs and he had to borrow money to settle poultry, due to the failure in supply of foodstuffs, must be restored forth- his debts and pay his travelling with as increased quantities become And we must further expenses to New York, when elected available.

provide for very considerable im- President. Jefferson, owner of 10-provement in livestock as well. 000 acres, ended his career in straitened circumstances. Jackson and McKinley both knew the mean- ing of hard times,

our producers the forming forms, including butter, should be a across the seas for the supply of the IN this island fortress, in this Democracy, more than any other people, should give us more than subject for economy. Por every in British population with adequate has scattered his farming population form of government, has net up sixteen milijan acres under the of manufactured milk, the produce produce.

go prodigally to all parts of the If we grow half the food at home; Empire, we were within of Britain, which we consume, three lofty principles by which its actions plough. In 1918 we

con rely upon the half that tonnage can be dispensed are constantly being measured. 200,000 acres of that figure. They tins come in from oversens,

should increase livestock until our Vegetables, we can eat more. That with. Nearly twelve million tons of character and fortitude of our peo- Yet in calling upon large numbers herds of cattle rench more than is a broad principle of consumption, shipping accommodation can be put ple. They will endure. They will of citizens, the temptation to aolf cloven million head. Five million For the great bulk of the vegetables at the disposal of the Shipping conquer shortage, They will face

hardship, if hardship comes. Intercat and self-enrichmont is con- pigs would not be too many. And we eat are grown in our own soll. Minister.

And to the sons of the sons of the- niderable. The example get by our egg and table birds. An increase that we can produce them all.

an increase in poultry to provide all And there is every reason to suppose

Scottish farmers who have returned again over the seas to fight for tho public-spirited leaders of the typo from twenty-five million to thirty

freedom of the soil of their. for-

SH milk. We con in the ship that we must employ to the male labour which they would FRESH

crease the consumption, bring us food, the greater the num replace can be directed quite easily thus reducing the demand for some ber of abips that we can use to bring in other agricultural purmults. foreign foodstuffs. For thero is munitions and arma to Britain. enough milk produced in Britain to Twenty-three million tons of ship- meet all our requirements.

ping are engaged in the course of But manufactured milk in all ila a year in transporting foodstuffs

O here is the demand: That

Nor uced we stint our consumption

of Mr. Savage is therefore a vital millon sheep on our pastures would of eggs. It is true that one in three

be desirable.

of the eggs we eat is imported. contribution to the Integrity and survival of democratic Ideals.

home of a stern race that.

IT in a starting economy. It fathers, we can give an example of Is equal to the entrying high endeavour and splendid pur... It is necessary to increase the Holland and Denmark are our chlef herds. If we do so, we have the foreign suppliers. But here we can capacity of the entire merchant fleet Dose,