The Committee appointed last August to consider methods of increasing
the home production of food " in the interest of national security " issued their Report at the end of last week. Lord Selborne was Chairman, and the Committee included Captain Bathurst, Mr. A. D. Hall, Sir Ailwyn Fellowes, Mr. Prothem, Mr. E. G. Strutt, and Sir Matthew Wallace. All the members of the Committee except Sir Matthew Wallace signed the Report. Their recommendations may be described as a confirmation and extension of the recommendations of the Minority Report on the employment of sailors and soldiers on the land. A minimum price for wheat and oats and a minimum wage are recommended, but these have already been adopted. In recommending Wage Boards, and in pointing out that if there should be a general tariff agriculture should share in the protection, they also follow the Minority Report. The recommendation that the State shall make good the shortage of cottages corresponds to an addendum to the Minority Report which appeared when the authors republished that Report under the title of British Agriculture : the Nation's Opportunity.
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