Elsewhere we have written about a remarkable and, as it
seems to us, a very important paper about the cultivation of potatoes which was read to the British Association by Lord Bledisloe. We supported the Corn Production Acts because they promised us a much greater measure of security against famine in time of war. The financial straits of the country have made it impossible to pay for that security. It is transparently useless to pay for it if in doing so we help ourselves to go bankrupt and thus have nothing left to make safe. In these circumstances it is important to know that there is much to be said for the culti- vation of the potato for safety's sake. Many British farmers have brought potato-growing to a high art of excellence without any encouragement or any subsidy or even a suggestion of it.
Previous page
