INDEX. 



111. 



MIDDLETON, SIR THOMAS H., K.B.E., C.B.eontd. 



Meat production : 



on Arable land... 3248, 3518-3522, 3533-3534 

 Cost of ... 2985-2986, 3010, 3184-3202, 3416- 



3427, 3430-3439, 3455, 3471-3480, . 

 3512-3522, 3526-3532, App. pp. 15-17 



Profit* 3187-3193 



Profits 2995-2996,3011,3043 



Small holdings 2997,2998, 3081, 3084-3086, 3109- 

 3114, 3011, 3118-3125, 3129-3132, 

 3162-3165, 3290-3297, 3302-3309 



Transport 3049-3053,3543-3547 



Tillage . grass farming 2987-2994, 3011, 3026, 

 3095-3097. 3206-3209, 3344-3347, 



3440-3346, 3488-3490 

 Wheat : 



Cost of production 2976-2978, 3010-3011, 

 3012-3026, 3054-3056, 3065-3067, 3071- 

 3078, 3134 3139, 3148-3150,3169-3173, 

 3263-3287, 3347-3376, 3389-3415, 3428- 



3429, 3456-3459, App. pp. 14-15 



Profits 3173, 3227-3228, 3275-3276 



Yield 3210-3212, 3456-3458 



World prices 3228,3310 



REW, Sin HENUV, K.C.B., Assistant Secre- 

 tary of the Board of Agriculture and 

 Fisheries, and Chairman of the Agri- 

 cultural Wages Board 436-873, App. I 



Acreage of cultivated land 576-578 



Agricultural depression in the seventies 



and the nineties 580-585 



Agricultural imports, sources ...473-474, 771-774 

 Agricultural statistics, collection method, 



completeness, etc. 467-472,740-743, 



791, 858-860 

 Arable cultivation : 



Acreage statistics ... ... ... App. p. 5 



Importance of 479-483,812 



Capital employed in agriculture ... 459-461, 463, 



554 558, 718, 723-731, 71U-722 



Census of production ... 441 



Cereals, yield 551-552, 784-786 



Corn and pulse, prices 1913-14, 1918-19, App. p. 3 

 Cost of production : 



Decrease not likely in immediate 



future 640-648 



Increase 605-637, 747-757 



Possibility of ascertaining ... 733,839-841 



Statistics, question 439-442, 484-490, 514-516 



Costings Committee ... 487-490,510-516,733 



Dairying 825-830 



Family farms 851-853 



Farm products, average prices ... App. pp. 3, 5 

 Farmers, intelligence and efficiency of ... 670-678, 



764-767 

 Farma : 



Number and percentages of, above 



1 acre App. p. 6 



Occupying ownership App. p. 6 



Feeding stuffs, average prices App. p. 4 



Fruit, prices 1913-14, 1918-19, App. pp. 3-1 



Grass land, conversion of arable to ... 792-794 

 Guaranteed prices : 



Acreage basis 652-668,831-832 



Benefit to landowners ... 492-495, 736-738 



Best system of State support 452, 649, 811 



Continuance policy 530 



Justification for 812-813 



and Margin of cultivation 695-696 



and Minimum wage 586-587, 684-693 



Object of, etc. 590-592, 679-688, 836, 842-845 

 never Operative in past and not likely 



to become 593-596, 799-802 



Protection of public and incentive to 

 improvements 573-575,815-819, 833-834 



Working of 517-519 



Labour 464-466, 501-505, App. p. 5 



Land: 809-810 



Hales 555-558,568-570 



Tenure 463,546,723-731 



Livestock : 



Prices 1913-14, 1918-19, App. p. 3 



Statistics App. p. 5 



Machinery 471-472,503,529,607-612,810 



Meat production 553 



Milk production ... ... 553 



REW, SIR HENRY, K.C.B. continued. 



Minimum wage and guaranteed prices ... 586-587, 



684-693 



Potatoes 491,521-522 



Prices : 



Increase 622-637,747-757 



Maximum, fixing of 539-542, 594, 616-620, 638 



and Wages 559-560 



Profits 745-746,751 



Rural depopulation 505,580-585 



Shipping 475-477,533-538 



Transport 445-446,716-717,820-822 



U.S.A., conditions in 529-537 



Vegetables, prices ... 1913-14, 1918-19, App. p. 3 

 Wages : 



Increase 759-763 



and Prices 559-560 



Rates 600-604,846-9 



Regulation ... ... 790 



Sliding scale 497-500 



Varying rates in different countries 543-545 



Wages Board ... 564-567,571-572,697-715 



World's food supply 478, 775-779, 795-798, 803 



RUSSELL, DR. E. J., Director of the Rotham- 



sted Experimental Station ... pp. 78-80, 1819-2083 



Arable cultivation p. 80 (9) 



Artificial fertilisers 1981 



Capitalisation of industry 1929-1930 



Cleaning crops 2077-2080 



Costs of production, value of enquiries ... 1969-1972 

 Cultivation, improvement methods ...p. 80 (9), 



1934-1939, 1968 



Distribution p. 80 (9) 



Experimental stations 1938-1939 



Farmers : 



Capital expenditure 1981 



Civic conscience must be aroused ...p. 80 (9) 



1825-1826, 1901, 1973 



Remuneration 1854-1855,1947-1948 



Greens, cultivation given up, Bothamsted 1867, 



1921-1923 2043 



Guaranteed prices 1865-1870, 1908-1911, 



1990-1993, 2083 



Hours ... 1848, 1958-1960 



Insurance 1990-1992 



Labour p. 78-79, p. 80 (9), 



1845-1847, 1871-1876, 1889-1907 

 1940, 1973, 1954-1957, 1965-1966, 

 1984-1988, 2014-2032, 2067-2069, 



2070-2071 

 Low wages formerly, bad effects still felt 1982 



Machinery 1940, 1983 



Minimum wage 1983 



Piecework ; ... 1877-1879 



Potatoes, abandonment of cultivation, 



Rothamsted 1852-1857,- 



1890, 1924, 2035-2042 

 Roots, cultivation not profitable, Rotharn- 



aled 1925-1927, 2035-2038 



Rothamsted Farm and Experimental Sta- 

 tion, particulars re costs, methods, etc. p. 78 80, 



1819-2082A 

 Wheat, yields p 79 



1850-1853, 1967, 2064-2066 

 Yearly tenancies 1974-1976 



STRATTON, R. : 4472-4682 



Arable land, Wiltshire : 



Danger of conversion to grass ... 4550-4551 



Difficulty of letting or selling 4472, 4485-4491 



Beef production in Wiltshire, cost 4478, 4575-4584, 



4645-4648 

 Cake, prices 4474 



Corn growing on 8-course system in 



Wiltshire, cost 4478, 4523-4531, 4533-4543, 

 4555-4574, 4591-4599, 4633-4644, 4655-4672 



Guaranteed prices ... 4477-4590 



Labour : 



Education 4473, 4503.-4505 



Decreased efficiency 4473, 4492-4500 



Machinery ... ... ... ... ... 4476 



Minimum wage 4473 



Prices, control ... 4472,4479-4491,4532-4533 

 Science, application to agriculture ... 4476 



