Agriculture and the Community (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Agriculture and the Community The following essay was written in the spring of 1921. Its purpose is to trace the causes which have operated to bring the agricultural industry to the position we find it in to-day and to discuss a policy by which the community will be able to make the industry contribute its proper share to the public welfare. I make no pretensions to any originality of treatment in analysing the causes of the decay of agriculture, or to have produced any new schemes of reform. I have purposely confined myself to the criticisms of those who are recognised as competent judges and have merely brought the criticisms together and tried to make the deductions which the facts warrant. The principal deduction I make is that the present system of private ownership and control of land, modified in some degree by legislation and administration, and the private control and management of farming operations for profit-making, have proved unable to make adequate use of the national resources, and that the industry, if left to be the private speculation of landowners and farmers, will tend to become less capable of supplying the needs of the community. The policy I propose is that the community should definitely make itself responsible for the maintenance of a standard of control and management of agricultural land, and for a standard of cultivation, and should set up the necessary machinery for enforcing these standards, taking over land and arranging for farming on its own responsibility. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.