Country Life
CAN WHEAT FARMING PAY?
Will the doctors in question explain how they come to disagree diametrically on a vital subject of English farming ? Now the Oxford Research Institute in Farm Economics, which continually issues model pamphlets on a host of subjects, has taken a rough census of types of farm and their relative success. It finds some most welcome prosperity among dairy farmers and—in respect of locality—among most producers throughout Devon and Cornwall. On the other hand, they show that farms are becoming hard to let and rents falling in the East where grain farming prevails and grass does not naturally flourish as in the West. This is very much what we should expect, though perhaps the areas of prosperity are more narrow and the areas of depression more sketchily defined than we should expect. It has been accepted as a general truth that wheat growing has not paid and is not likely to pay. Money is said to have been lost last year on good wheatland that bore a bumper crop.
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