Farmers cannot expect to make fortunes out of this war, but when they ʻave to meet rising costs of produc-ien it is understandable that they should ask for compensating n their returns. Food prices must be allowed to soar, but it is none the less necessary that the incentive of a fair profit, in which, through the agricultural wages machinery, the agricultural labourer also shares, should inspire the campaign for i creased food production. Certainly the task of the county war agricultural executive committees would be made much easier if farmers everywhere could see for themselves that it would pay them to undertake fresh commitments in the ploughing up of grassland, and there must be no halfhearted response now in holding and strengthening the food front.
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