WHAT IS WRONG WITH BRITISH AGRICULTURE ?
[To the Editor of the Ser.cre'roal
Sm,—May I ask permission to clarify a statement that appeared recently in the editorial columns of the Spectator, and reply to a remark made by Mr. Arnold J. W. Keppel in your issue of January 5th?
Mr. Keppel is entirely mistaken in supposing that econ- omists have no suggestion to offer for the solution of the Agricultural problem. The position is quite different : they offer a solution, but the difficulty is that their solution has to lie poptilariZed before it is adopted—a very difficult thing. Mr. Keppel will find if he reads, for example, tke report of the Committee on Rural Reconstruction, which can be obtained .for ls. from this Association, a complete analysis of the agricultural situation, and the economic solution. This solution involves many changes, but the fundamental point to-day is to adopt the standard price system instead of the vacillating price system. This system does not, as you impiY,invole the artificial fixing of a minimum price, but the fixing of a price for the main articles of. production "with regard to the best economic advantages of producers and consumers and of the nation* at large f' That there is such a price is unknownto most people. If 1-he writers of letters to the Spectator would only find a little time tostudy the economic solution, ,of the problem as a whole, they would soon realize the position and what ought to be done Our association is always glaW to help, for we ha e no political or other bias and are only concerned' rn the spread of information.—I am, &c., M_ONTAOUE FORDHAM,
Council Secretary.'
Rural Reconstruction Association; Leplay House, 65 :Belgrave Road, S.1'.1.
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