THE HOPE OF AGRICULTURE.
“The agricultural problems of the Empire are diverse in many wavs, hat they have at least this as a great common factor—their attitude towards the use of fertilisers. As you are better aware than I am. the population of this country has lived for several generations on the stored-up reserves of fertility of the virgin plains of the world. I have often stated that Britain has become over-industrialised. She has lost the balance between agriculture and industry. il,any of the most com plex of our social and ceonomic problems have arisen from this fact. I feel that the fertiliser industry j will help to restore? the balance between industry and agriculture to equity. Even in industrial England agriculture is our greatest trade, and it is unnecessary to tell you of its importance m the Empire. The extended use of fertilisers, such as we are now beginning, will play a large part in encouraging agriculture and thereby assist in increasing the prosperity and cohesion of the Empire. It is no exaggeration of language to say that, with the large scale manufacture of synthetic nitrogenous fertilisers, a new era has dawned on the world,”— Sir Alfred Mond,
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 February 1928, Page 3
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199THE HOPE OF AGRICULTURE. Hokitika Guardian, 17 February 1928, Page 3
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