The Land and the Empire

Abstract

MR. TURNOR is well known as an enthusiastic landown§r who firmly believes in the future of British agriculture if only it is properly taken in hand. He divides his book into three parts: the errors of the past; land settlement and educ,gtion and a sketch of an organised agricultural industry. The keynote to the whole is that a new outlook is wanted. On the rural side the Government, the landowners, and the farmers must all be brought to recognise that the holding of land implies the duty of cultivating it in the best possible manner; on the urban side the people must realise that the country ought never again to be so dependent on sea-borne food as it has been during the past fifty years. Henceforth, Mr. Tumor urges, security of supply must be the motto, instead of a cheap supply at all hazards; and, lastly, the workers themselves must have a new outlook, and realise that salvation for our future economic troubles lies in unrestricted, and not in restricted, individual output.

The Land and the Empire.

By Christopher Turnor. Pp. 144. (London: John Murray 1917.) Price 3s. 6d. net.