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The Journal (August 1920) informs us of 

 cases where legal proceedings have been 

 taken to enforce the Cultivation Orders since 

 Armistice Day. It should be borne in mind 

 that after the Armistice the compulsory break- 

 ing up of grass land ceased, and the work of the 

 Agricultural Committees consisted, or should 

 have consisted, in improving the general stand- 

 ard of farming in their respective counties. 

 There was, unfortunately, a general slackening 

 all round. Cultivation Orders were only served 

 where the rules of good husbandry were not 

 being observed, or where, in other respects, 

 land was being neglected. The cases cited 

 illustrate, as much as the preceding ones, how 

 bad farmers will not even study their own 

 financial interest in the cultivation of the land, and 

 how they cannot be trusted to carry out Cultiva- 

 tion Orders, which have only been issued, since 

 the Armistice, where ill-cultivation is of too 

 scandalous a nature to be overlooked. 



"(I) In East Suffolk ^ acres of good corn- 

 growing land were bought in 191 8, and the 

 purchaser turned out the tenant, a good 

 farmer, after asking a rent which was more 

 than the land was worth. The land was then 

 allowed to lie idle and become derelict, in 

 spite of the service of Cultivation Orders by 

 the Agricultural Executive Committee. The 

 owner was, therefore, prosecuted for failure 

 to comply with the Orders, and fined ^20, 





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