42 A NEW AGRICULTURAL POLICY 



to a tenant who has made good progress with 

 the cultivation." 



Now that the Durham County Council has, 

 I believe, a majority of miners upon it, I do 

 not think it is very likely that this class of 

 owner or occupier would be treated with such 

 tender solicitude ; but, unfortunately, the power 

 of compelling good cultivation has been rendered 

 almost innocuous now that we are blessed with 

 an Agriculture Act which reduces those 

 responsible for enforcing good farming by 

 inspectorship to a state of impotence. 



