EFFICIENCY ON THE FARM,

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1776, 14 June 1913, Page 25

EFFICIENCY ON THE FARM,

Thero has neyer been a time wlicn tho farmer was as well off as lid is to-day, when we consider not only his earning power, but tho comforts and advantages ho may secure. I'et the real efficiency in farm life, and in country life as a wliolo, is not to bo measured by historical standards, but in' terrtis of its possibilities. Considered from this point of view', thero are very marked deficiencies. There has been a complete and fundamental change in our wliolo economic system within tho past century. This has resulted in profound social changes, and the redirection of our point of view on life. 111 some occupations, the readjustment to the new conditions has been rapid and complete; in others it lias come with difficulty. _ In all the great scries of farm occupations tho . readjustment has been tlio most tardy, because tho whole structure of a traditional and/fundamental system has been involved. It is not strange, therefore, that development is still arrested in certain respccts, that marked inequalities have arisen, or that positivo injustice may prevail even to a very marked and -widespread extent. All tlieso difficulties are tho results of the unequal development of our contemporary civilisation. All this may come about without any intention on the nart of any one that it should ho so. The problems' aro nevertheless just as real, and- they must bo studied and remedies must 1)0 found. — Eepojjt of U.S. Country Life Commission.