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Show FAUuGl SLIGHTREWARD England Awakes to MenaceV of Middleman IsMNimy. c:. 20' "Farmers nod thetr la ho rem everywhere are profoundly pro-foundly dissn ilsf led 11 h the mnf r rvward accorded lo t heir toil." writes f t he labor correspondent of the 1 'all y Mail, ft; a rritilt vt a tur of the "fi-uUur.il "fi-uUur.il districts In Kimland ' It Is true that farmers ars notorious grumblers." grum-blers." he says, "hut there n he n i-ti(.t that at tho present t im they have exceptional, perhaps unprecedented, unprecedent-ed, -aus therefore. "Throutfh some Kross snd glsrlng defect de-fect tn our distributive methons a monstrous proportion of their labors Just wig" Is falling Into th p(x ket s of protitetrlng middlemen, und Mule rr n lhtn of It goes t tlie nc:t:si workeis and producers. The result is that the farmers are unable to afford decent pay to their laborers, and aro I even compelled in many rases to dispense dis-pense with paid work altogether, ( on- e'jtit'ntly the stste has to maintain thouaands of men In Idleness at a "St of mi 1 lions of pounda. while 1 he land Is b-liiR ftarved In productiveness for lack of labor. "At the same time. In the vital defer de-fer si ve business of self feeding, ths country Is I'-slnr all that tt alined during dur-ing the war Most of the land which was under the .plough Is returning to permanent pasture. In 1.1S e had 1 J. "te .tji0 acres of srahle land: last -year e had only H.smt.unO Yet he grass land is 1,401.00 less than in 191 1. and the total area of both crops and grass has diminished by mors than l.Ouv.OOU acres." |