“Like Red Queen”
In spite of Subsidies, incomes of British farmers were falling behind those of other sections of the community, Professor T. W. Walker, professor of soil science at Canterbury Agricultural College, told the farmers’ conference at the college yesterday. "In other words, like the Red Queen in Alice, farmers are having to run faster and faster merely to stay still, and m fact they are even going back,” he said. Professor Walker said that the great number of British farmers had small businesses and lived only slightly better than farm workers. Somehow' farmers, farmers’ sons, and labourers had to be encouraged to quit the land, and future policy must surely concentrate on increaang farm size. But unfortunately Britain had recently singled out small unprofitable farms for special aid and advice, and in the interests of longterm efficiency this could not be good.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29517, 19 May 1961, Page 10
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