WAR AND THE LAND.
Sir-Your editorial of April 10 is very uninformed. In factory production the raw material and sufficient labour can be fed to machinery and output be raised to any height. In the field raw material is variable even given sufficient labour and all necessary manures and then there are several uncontrollable factors, notably the weather. In 1917 I assisted to plough up pasture which had not been ploughed for 40 years. The potato crop was 3 tons per acre, as compared to an average of 18 tons per acre in a nearby crop. The farmer who grew that crop said the 3 tons per acre was very satisfactory; he added that it would take ten years to grow an 18 ton crop on that land. In wartime factory production the Government guarantees profit; in even wartime field production it cannot guarantee a profit. In factory production output can be raised and cost lowered extensively; in field production the extent’ of that process is very limited. If agricultural experts, such as Sir A. D. Hall, were given all the land, labour, etc., they asked for it is very doubtful if anything like the big .increase in factory production could
be achieved.
SAXON
(Auckland).
(If our correspondent has said anything it is what we ourselves said, namely that it is easier to speed up factory production than production from land.-Ed.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 152, 22 May 1942, Page 4
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