MAIZE, PROPOSED IMPORTATION OF, FOR ANIMAL FEEDING. Memo. by Financial Secy. to the Treasury.

feeding stuffs, there is, as it seems to me, a strong presumption that as much as possible of the new arable area should be devoted to the direct production of human food. Granting, however, that there should still be a large acreage sown to oats, I cannot agree that, when the Exchequer has paid ploughing-up grants on much of the land and is making heavy capital contributions towards drainage, ditching and land clearance - contributions which are bound to become heavier as more and more marginal land is brought under the plough it should then be confronted with demands, either to pay a special inducement to farmers to obtain any of the oats which it has assisted them to grow or to incur dollar liabilities in Canada and the United States, in order to provide substitute foods for our human and animal populations.