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AUCTIONS. H. MATSON AND 00. JJ MATSON AND 00. EXTRACT FROM THE LONDON "TIMES," Dated July 22nd, 1927. "THE PRIME MINISTER'S SPEECH, GOVERNMENT'S WORK FOR FARMERS." (Continued from yesterday'« paper, hi this column.) No other elans of ratojayqrs receives such favourable treatment la the rating of buildings they occupy. That may be » little thine, but it 14 # great deal better than nothing, and it is more than the fulfilment of the pledges w# gave on that subject, You may say we have not done much for roads. We have done something. In these days of financial stringency, when every industry and every section of people In this country is calling oat for relief, make the most of what yon have been able to get. and hope for better times. We are learning fast in this country what research can do to aid agriculture, and we have sever coned in our efforts as a Government to help the farmer in his eampaign; a campaign in whioh only in recent years have we realised how near we may be to success in fighting those diseases and pests which work such havoe among stock and in all the products of the soil. Foot-and-mouth disease still rages on the Continent and in Denmark, but thanks to the improvement in oar adminiitration and to the embargo on Continental moats, even at the risk of diminishing supplies at home, we do seem to have cleared our country, except for occasional sporadic outbursts, of that terrible disease. I regret exceedingly to see a report from Tunbridge Wellß of a local outbreak, which I trust may bo confined within the narrowest space. We have not hesitated wherever we have had the opportunity to deal with pests that threaten crops. More direct and more easily recognisable as something of great benefit to agriculture have been our efforts at considerable cost to the State to establish on a firm looting the sugar-beet industry in this country. This year over 230,000 acres are being devoted to this crop, an increase of 70 per cent, over the previous year. This has cost the oountry no less than £4,500,000, a large sum, but I believe one for which we shall be amply repaid in the work given to our people, and, as I hope and believe, in the profitable nature of that business and of that crop. I think in Lincolnshire you have special reason to be grateful for that, because you are within reach of factories, and you are beginning to learn what that crop can do both of itself and in preparing the ground for corn to follow it. If it bad been left to tho Liberal Party, with their eeonornio views, this industry would never have been established, and I think it a significant fact that you should not lose sight of, that no fewer than 38 members of the Labour Party, headed by their deputy Labour leader, voted against the third reading of the Sugar Subsidy Bill. It makes me fear that if they were returned to power there would be a great chance that the help so freely given to this industry would be revoked. SHEEPSKINS, HIDES, TALLOW, CRUTCHINGS, WOOL, ODDMENTS. Send Forward to H. MATSON and CO. for ntmost possible results. CREDITS FOR FARMERS, GOVERNMENT . SCHEME NEXT YEAR. On the question of credit, we promised to give special consideration to that 'subject, with the object of preparing a scheme. I have come here to tell yon that this undertaking we are determined to fulfil. .We recognise that the existing facilities for obtaining loans for land purchase are defective, and that agriculture suffers from the insecurity that attaohes to the mortgage. It is liable to be called in at short notice, and it contains no provision for systematic repayment over a period of years. Apropos of that, I should like to express my considered opinion that a part of this campaign in the Press, and bb waged by some' members of. the industry, saying that agriculture is on its last legs »nd past praying for unless the Government do something which is never indicated, is doing agriculture a great deal of harm, and if you get it into the heart of the people that agriculture is a lost industry, the only result will be that every mortgage, that can be will be called in and legitimate meihods of credit will be threatened. Now,'.joint stock banks can and do finance farmers to, a considerable extent by temporary loans, but they cannot lock up their depositors' money on long terms. We, therefore, first of all explored the, possibility of assisting, in co-operation with the; joint stock banks, in the shape of, a central mortgage institution empowered to* grant long term loans secured on farm mortgage's and repayable Aver a term of years. Confidence and' Security are what you want, and if a m&h knows that sO -lont; as be pays his Instalment punctually there is no fear of the principal being called 'in, it gives Trim confidence. 1

.MANURES. MANURES.. . All Brands and Descriptions at Lowest Possible Prices From H. MATSON and 00. We had made some progress. In this before the coal stoppage but the stoppage and its disastrous consequences to credits generally . inevitably checked our efforts for some time. It is only recently that we have been able to resume our investigations with any hope of success. We are nowt .working' out a -scheme which we intend to submit to Parliament next year. J cannot antioipate at this stage the details of that scheme, but we hope and believe that we shall be able by that means to render you real assistance and give yoa in that direction added security and addsd confidence. (Cheers.) , ~ . .• You may, say all these .things are inadequate. Well, I ask what help have I had from the industry? I proposed four years ago subsidies for arable farmers. « went to the country on it, staked my owh position and that of the Government,, and the,result of that was w lost, an enormous number of agricultural seats. The country declared itself against subsidies to agriculture. Since then tho financial poiltion of the country, ib worse, and subsidies for agriculture or any industry 'in the country, are out o! praotiaal politics. How can you subsidise agriculture without subsidising industries that have Buffered as much or perhaps more? NO VAIN PROMISES. The vory same hands that 1 to-day are running up "signals of distress were telling us two years ago to "Keep off the grass. I remember very well a deputation of the Farmers' Union to my friend Mr Wood When he was Minister for Agriculture. They, said: "seeds "for Spring bowing" PASTURE GRASSES AND CLOVERS, M.D. SELECTED SEEDS. AND ALL PEDIGREE FARM SEEDS KEPT IN STOqK. , H. MATSON and 00. 'The Union has consistently adhered to the position that It is not the farmer's business to tell the nation what the national (agricultural policy should be. It -is the nation's business to state what is expected of home food production. If it be the will of the nation that farming should be ' conducted on ordinary business lines, the industry will continue to adapt its enterprise accordingly." I think . those are very sound words. Is that their opinion to-day I . ~ _ I spoke of the nostrums of other Parties. We have repeatedly challenged them to'telli os what their plans of nationalisation and control would do for agriculture, and.we have had no answer. Wa help and shall continue to help where help Is possible, but I will not delude you with vain proinises. We are the one Party which will protect your industry from violent changes in the system-of tenure and from the thraldom" of bureaucratic control which is so alien to your nature and ' must destroy that stability and continuity, which are essential to tho proper management of > your own business. If the Farmers Union would devote a little less time to politics and a little more to telling ns how we can help agriculture—(cheers)—we will meet them more than half-way, and whatever legislation we can, bring before Parliament to help, in any way we can, we will do so. I say again, face the facts, British agriculture is not one uniform industry turning out » standardised-produq*. It differs in every part of the United Hingdom, and with that neat divergence of conditions how can you . find s common prescription that to .going to be a cure for everybody! Itfollows from the very fact of that divergence that farmers to-day are suffering cruel hardships. But there are farmers who are prospering, though it is quite true that the world-wide movoments which are affecting agriculture in every country to-day are affecting agriculture 'in England in the prosperous,. though in a lesser degree there than in the less prosperous, parts of the United Kingdom. tyji 'OKdertake valuations OF LAND. MAKE A SPECIALITY OF AUCTION BALES. - H. MATSON and CO. ISAM WORK OVERSEA. We have to remember that this is .by our own choice, for good or 111, an urban country. We have made our choice. We cannot retain our- position now as a world Power without numbers, without wealth. We cannot wholly feed ourselves by any means known ta industry or to science, and we must import the balk of our food from abroad. Tho foreigner has many advantages^—still virgin soil, largesoale production, and in many countries lowpaid labour. Our advantage is our proximity to our markets and highly skilled labour, but our advantages are constantly being assailed by the improvement that oversea poducers are making in grading, packing, and transport. Man ior man there are no better farmers in the world than in this country, but I do think that oversea-they beat us in team work. Oca authority after another—the Conference at Geneva, the Linlithgow Committee —emphasised this point. The other "day, in the "Manchester Guardian," a very prominent Liberal, who knows what h* is talking about, Sir Francis Aeland, a large Devonshire landowner ANY ddMMOWtTY, tfOU HAVE FOR HALE FORWARD TO H. MATSON/and CO., WHO GIVE SATISFACTIONS and farmer, said: "From a national point of view it is certain that the margin of . prices between what the producer teceives and what the public pays is quite unnecessarily large, certainly in the oaf# of milk, and only a little lees certainly in the case of bread and meat. (To be Continued.) 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