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served with a further Order to carry out the 

 necessary work." 



These instances are sufficient to show the 

 waste of time and the loss of crops to the 

 nation involved in this system of farming by 

 inspectorship, even when the inspectors were 

 still armed with Orders under D.O.R.A., which 

 cease to operate as soon as the Agriculture 

 Act comes into force. Indeed D.O.R.A. had 

 already fallen into disuetude. This is un- 

 fortunate, for "21" got land cultivated with- 

 out the tedious tergiversation of Part IV. of the 

 Corn Production Act. Under Article (I) (f) of 

 Regulation 2 m, to quote the Ministry's own 

 words, "the Ministry may determine the 

 tenancy of an occupier of land who by reason 

 of incompetence or persistent neglect shows 

 that he cannot make proper use of his land. 

 This drastic step was only taken after repeated 

 warnings, and usually after several Cultivation 

 Notices had been served without effect. The 

 notice may be nullified if on appeal by the 

 tenant to arbitration, on the question whether 

 the holding has been properly cultivated, the 

 arbitrator takes the view that it has been. It 

 is of interest that out of twenty cases where the 

 tenant exercised his right of appeal the decision 

 was against the tenant in every case. The 

 total number of Determination Notices issued 

 since January 191 7, is 809, relating to an area 

 of 61,000 acres." 



