If the objection were only on personal grounds we might not feel so strongly, although we feel that it should be strongly pressed, but it is on national grounds, against the gloomy background not only of world food shortage but of the need in these islands to look inwards and to make the most of our natural resources that we feel strongly; for this House is bound, in These Days Ofeconomic Crisis, to look to the farmer and to the importance of not doing anything that can be avoided to injure the national industry of agriculture.