The farmers in conference emphasized the astonishing in- fluence of
electric light and heat on the poultry industry, whether worked on a big or small scale. There is still room for a very wide promotion of this expanding industry ; and it would have been as great in the Home Counties as it has been in Lancashire and other western counties if similar facilities had been offered by electric supply companies in the South. A real addition to productive wealth would have been secured, if even a minute percentage of the money spent on country roads had been spent on the spread of light and power. More than this perhaps : the comfort and health of life in cottages would have been increased beyond all calcu- lation. In the sequel, perhaps at once, the expenditure would have been economically productive. " The Dying Peasant," in Mr. Robertson Scott's phrase, raises a more dramatic cry for " more light " than any dying Goethe.
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