Agriculture and the Nation.

Cromwell Argus, Volume XLIX, Issue 2583, 29 July 1918, Page 3

Agriculture and the Nation.

Mr Charles M. Douglas, D.Sc , addressing the members of Glasgow Philosophical Society on the subject of " Agriculture and the Nation, " said that for the time at least it was being appreciated more than it sometimes had been that agriculture was of enormous value to the well-being and sifety of an island people. The agricultural world was, in a curious way, a world apart, with its own point of view, its own interests, and its own peculiar temperament, and I hey were beginning to reog-iisa that its point of view mmt ba considered carefully if the nition's vital were 'o ba supplied. It wi3 that'we should ba able to grow suibcien k . wheat to k.9ep away starvation at least before this country could be regarded as 3afe against future and inevitable dev, lopments of marine and submarine warfare, which might enable a nation in course of time to wear down even the greatest 33a power in the world. In anotb jr sense a revival of agriculture was essential ; it was essential to the health and wellbeing of the people, All the indications showed that wo could not have a strong and enduring people unless we had suitable industries employing men in conditions which made for the best physical and mental health.