CHAPTER II 



HOW COUNTY EXECUTIVE COMMITTEES 

 TRIED TO SAVE THE SITUATION 



SINCE Arthur Young published his famous 

 Travels, Sir Rider Haggard his Survey, 

 Sir Daniel Hall his Pilgrimage of British 

 Farming, we have not had so illuminating a 

 report of the condition of British farming as is 

 to be found in the extracts issued from time to 

 time by the Ministry of Agriculture in their 

 Journal of the work of the County Agricultural 

 Committees. Those who care to plod through 

 the pages of the Minutes of Evidence of the 

 Royal Com?nission on Agriculture, /pig to 

 1920, on which I sat as a member, will find 

 much upon which to reflect. For the moment 

 these Reports will suffice and, though it is 

 unfortunate that there is no complete published 

 Report, we can glean from the pages of the 

 Journal a sufficient revelation of the nakedness 

 of our land. 



It must not be supposed that these Reports 

 were intended to reveal to us the nakedness of 

 the land ; they were published to show what 

 splendid work County Executive Committees 



