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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, wo need more 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 basis.

That is to Báy, they must have the supplies necessary for men exposed to the elements, undertaking heavy Jabour, 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.

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Sure

His

In 1870, with a

To

Own"

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 Ilver 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 'n splendid help a 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. rales is one of the most important. factors in promoting a riso in food. prices.

A

So by this increase in production: that we project, and by ihla economy-

with in consumption, coupled diversion to home-grown foods, wo help to protect ourselves against. further rise in the cors of Hving.

ND there is one more con- tribution that can be offer-

some extent these extra demands upon

our food 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 no good as animals in production, provided that the feed- public. It is the contribution he can

ing-stuffs Arc avaliable to sedentary occupations,

do for us now?

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FIR

the pasture.

is

with

..

the make in the guise of a producer In.

a small way.

For garden. patches over so tiny can be cultivated.. A few potatoes WHERE then must we econ- here, a bed of carrots there, some: beetroot where the land is well. omise?

fertilised. In beef, because we buy half our

The consumer then has the satis

So here is a problem intensified So when you hear the old, bad formers. 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 it. When you hear the story that after the experience of the Inst war more food value, is obtained by that food supplies must be increased forming for grain and potators than as much as 20 per cent, of the total can be got out of beasts, reject it bect from abroad. And that is a faction of feasting on his own pro consumption of any country engaging too. We have plenty of acres for situation that can only be remedied duce, the pleasure of taking some In battle

in part and over a long time. front.

both.

part and share in the equipment of To consider the situation fully, we

Bacun, too, should be consumed a nation bent on the preservation of That is the broad pleture of what must

ust first of all have a clear concep waits to be accomplished in develop with economy. We produce less than society.

There is no.other such 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.

What can be done in that direction most desirable, we cannot

expect to

from a well-cultivated garden. Two-thirds of the food we eat to regulate our national life to the meet our total requirements.

I have referred to the contributions. The small sum left by the late comes

omes from abroad. One-third is wartime situation?

is much to be said for There is James Savage, Prime Minister of grown in our own fields.

This is a matter in which the devo''ng ourselves to securing in- from (1) the producer; (2) the con- There is no denying that home

then, the Government So also are results will be swifter and more New Zenland, is welcome evidence production ought to have been speed whole population is interested. Every crenses in other directions where sumer; and (3) the gardener. Now

household concerned.

The Government must not take that there are political leaders who ed up before the war. But there is the restaurants and the clubs, and, satisfactory.

no use in looking back longingly into

We should eat less mutton and "gricultural labourers from the soll.. Well I remember October 10, 1917, food is served. approach their high office with no, the past. We must peer into the indeed, every public place where

lamb. For we graze on our own future Instead, thought of self-enrichment.

And the whole publie should co- pastures less than half the sheep that when an immense effort was made to find skilled ploughmen in the We must consider the contribution

the producera by we need,

Army. A great comb-out took place should use less sugar. We Perhaps France, among the demo- which can be made by home produc- operate

We on a demand from the Board of tion to help us. What can we expect diverting our consumption to the cratic countries, has heen соп from the Actis 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.

cat. And we eat too much of it. A sistent plea to the War Cabinet for who have personally preferred to

reduction in the national consumption more plouglumen and more labourera, could be effected will benefit to the For a most wasteful situation had live in humble style. A notable

FIRST and foremost come health of the community.

arisen. The farmers had been stimu- example was Emile Loubet, Pre-

potatoes. We should eat FIRST,--we can look_for_a

Now it has been shown (1), that lated to increase production. Now 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- and the plough. J. F. Wright tells me items of diet which must be enrried long way to fuill our needs; (2) of labour, and their efforts were was a man of humble means

to Britain from over the zeus.

that economy in consumption, with frustrated on that account. that the present programme has

This time let us avoid that mis- We grow all the potatoes we 10 more reliance upon foods that we habits. His successor, Armand brought half a million additional Fallieres, of peasant stock, could be acres into our total of ploughed land. quire at present. But we could ex can grow at home, will also give us take. Let us escupo that error.

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

A from 610,000 acres to 100,000. In seen after. retirement tending his' as we have a right to expect the year 1918 we had an area of method must be devised by which little southern vineyard. Poincare, the arable land of Britain is increased more than 800,000 acres growing If we get the increased though comfortably provided for, by four million acres. And it is potatoes. lived modestly and never travelled result. Possible to achieve that production, it would then be the The land is there, waiting task of the citizens to use the in-

We may expect to save half the back not only from the Army, but ereased production. for the

the plough. railroad was

Back to 1879, that must be the cry. The potato is an article of food money that we send abroad to pay also from city occupations. Wherever 1870, when, with a population of 20 possessing immense nourishing qua- for purchases of food. Half the food an experienced farm hand can be

We cat four pounds millions, we had 17 million acres les.

ot is not an over-estimate of what can found he should be persuaded to In Britain, tradition, has usually of arable land, as against the 1940 potatoes a

week cach. That con- be done. If the arable acreage is return at once to the cultivation of set the Prime Minister among the figure of 45 millions of population sumption should be increased, with increased from 12,000,000 acres by the soil.

additional 4,000,000 with the It will be said that economic con- and less than 12 million acres. benent to the nation's food position an possessing classes, Lloyd George,

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

accompany that expansion in tillage, in the way. Nothing of the sort. we would be going a long way to

Tell the farm labourers of Britalo Liberal wartime premier and ori-mensely increasing our home sup- the community.

plies of food for man and beast. Ten per cent. of potato flour In

who have strayed from the soil that. ginally a provincial reformer, was

Then we can increase our livestock bread is desirable. The mixture does wards the objective.

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

have plenty of fodder. We can in-

Next in importance comes oatmeal. We may look for a big saving in necessitates their return to the land, and they will respond with good will. But do not ask the patriot to pay Donald, first Labour Prime Minister. crease our herds, which have lately A magnificent article of food. More foreign exchange.

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

a price. In Australia, the late Mr. Joseph

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

Let him know that his labour will reserve of be well rewarded. That his social A. Lyons, who died last Year, left the outbreak of war, our cattle re milk, containing more food value able economy in our

sources have been depleted by half dan bacon and eggs, and just as foreign exchange."

condition will be well provided for. only £836.

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 Presidents, while enjoy our total stock of live pigs has gone We produce half the oat products £301,000,000 in importing foodstuffs. will never bo neglected again.

The Government should also pro- ing the financial advantages offered down by half a millon

we cat. But there is no reason why The saving of half of that immense 3,750,000, In their newly developed country, Gilbert Kidner estimates that the wo should not expand the acreage sum would strengthen our financial vide means for training women for huge sum of money for the so for been made to attract the atten- hnvo by no means consistently shortage of feeding-stuffs has caused under oats to the point where we position immensely. It would re- the land. And the efforts that have

grow at home all that we consume, Jeaso maintained themselves in affluence. a log of five million birds out of The acres are there. They await the purchase of the implements and the ton of women to the land have fail-

60,000,000 on the poultry farms and plough. And oats are a very easy raw material essential for war.

It need arose, we could buy a fleet President Washington began as al-In the farmyards of Britain.

must be within the resources it crop to grow. Almost any type of most the wealthiest, landowner in There is certainly a pressing neces- land will give a good yield.

of thousands of American airplanes of a good man, with powers from sity for an ingrcase in hens. For

out of the money we anve by devot- the Government, to establish proper the United States, with tens of we should produce all the eggs we grow all of our oats. In fact, it can programme. We could do it without will attract them. It should be pos

It would not be a difficult tasks to ing ourselves to our own home food training centres for women which thousands of acres and hundreds of "¡ require.

ลง accomplished with slaves. Yet as a result of the war Now this decline in cattle, pigs and

by Himousine if a avaliable.

suffered a serious decline.

out of

of foodstuffs, must be restored forth- with as increased quantities become And wo must further available. provide for very considerable im provement in livestock as well.

he bad to borrow money to settle poultry, due to the failure in supply facility. his debts and pay his travelling expenses to New York, when elected President, Jefferson, owner of 10, 000 acres, ended his career in strultened circumstances. Jackson and McKinley both knew the mean- ing of hard times.

Democracy, more than any other.

easo

and

ND how will these benefits

Eturned to agricultural.

AVERY avaliable man must..

be bestowed upon us? pursuits. Labourers must be called.

ed

Yet

throwing on to the market one addi- sible to turn out such competent tional bar of gold in British owner- women workers that the farmers ship,

will be enger to employ them,

They would be especially suitable We would also relieve the pressure upon shipping tonnage. The fewer to look after pigs and poultry. And VRESH milk. We can in the ship that we must employ to the male labour which they would

crease, the consumption, bring us food, the greater the num- replace can be directed quite easily- thus reducing the demand for some ber of ships that we can use to bring to other agricultural pursuits. foreign foodstuffs. For there is munitions and arms 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 So here is the demand: That But manufactured milk in all its a year in transporting foodstuffs

our producers the farming forms, including butter, should be a across the seas for the mupply of the IN this island fortress, in this

home of a stern race thaặ: adequate has scattered its forming population the of manufactured milk, the produce produce.

If we grow half the food at home Empire, we lofty principles by which its actions plough. In

so prodigally to all parts of the 191B we

within of Britain, which we consume, three were

half that tonnage can be dispensed

rely upon the aro constantly being measured. 200,000 heres of that figure. They tins come in from overseas.

should increase livestock until our Vegetables, we can eat more. That with. Nearly twelve million tons of character and fortitude of our pro- Yet in calling upon large numbers herds of cattle reneli more than is a broad principle of consumption. shipping accommodation can be put plo. They will endure. They wil of citizens, the temptation to self cleven 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 comco." Interest and self-enrichmont is con pige would not be too many. And we eat are grown in our own soll. Minister.

And to the sons of the sons of the on Increase in poultry to provide all And there is every reason to suppose

Scottish farmers who have returned niderable. The example act by our egg and table birds, An increase that we can produce them all. public-spirited leaders of the type from twenty-five million to thirty Noe need we stint our consumption

ngain over the scan to doht for the freedom of the soll of their foro- of Mr. Savage is therefore a vital million sheep on our pastures would of cage. It is true that one in three

bo desirable,

of the eg we ent is Imported. contribution to the integrity and

It is necessary to increase the Holland and Denmark are our chief survival of democratic ideals, herds. If we do no, we have the foreign suppliers. But here we can capacity of the entire merchant fleet pose.

form of government, has not up People, should give us more then subject for economy. For every, un British population with

alxteen millon acres under

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IT is a starting economy. It fathers, we can give an example of

is equal to the carrying big endeavour and splendid pur