AGRICULTURE

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 65, Issue 5547, 9 November 1942, Page 4

AGRICULTURE

COMPLICATED PROBLEM IN BRITAIN

“In Britain the problem of agriculture is complicated by the immense variety of soils, of climate and of other geophysical factors, apart from the difference in size of farms and differing types of farmers. That is one of the reasons why, for example, this country went in for so many different types of ploughs, which are numbered not by tens of scores, but by hundreds. This is one of the main difficulties that face us in trying to reduce the different types of ploughs to more manageable proportions. I believe that the different types number

[no fewer than 850. In most other I countries by contrast there is a comparatively small number of farming types and more uniformity of soil, of farm and of agricultural knowledge and resources on the part of the farmer. In the United Kingdom there are two further complications. It is

very usual in my experience to find ; that if you discuss any one problem with farmers from different parts of the country they talk in almost comi pletely different languages, so that an i explanation of a process which is applicable to one part of the country may seem complete nonsense to farmers in another part. Endless confusion has been caused in the past and great disservice has been done to the cause of science by people advocating' new methods as though they were of universal application.”—The British Minister of Agriculture, Mr Hudson.