The new proposals to increase the fertility of the soil and improve the health of livestock, which the Minister of Agriculture, Mr. W. Morrison recently announced, were discussed last month.
Mr. Morrison objected to the description of them as the Government's "long-term policy for agricul-It was not supposed that when hey were carried out there would be rething more to do. But they were vital to the national welfare. 5
Their purpose was to put the land to such a condition that it could rive worthy service in an emergency. Assistance given to farmers in obtain-g lime and basic slag would be of enduring benefit, especially to grass-lend the value of grass Mr. Morrisor.
eloquent. Dependence on imorted stuffs put farmers at the mercy of the "vagaries of the American climate." Grass was a "rep which Britain could grow better than anyone else in the world.
It was the foundation of the supremacy of our livestock industry. Britain should develop this great resource.
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