

The Director-General, 



Food Production Department, 



Board of Agriculture and Fisheries. 



SIR, 



I HAVE the honour to present a brief report on the methods 

 adopted in breaking up grass land during the past winter 

 and on the results achieved. 



The report is based on enquiries addressed to farmers in 

 all parts of the country by the Cultivations Sub-Committee 

 of the Technical Committee of this Department. 



The Department is much indebted to the many farmers 

 who have filled up and returned the detailed schedules of 

 questions addressed to them, to the County Executive 

 Officers, Agricultural Organisers, and other local officers who 

 assisted in the enquiry, and especially to Professor R. G. 

 White, M.Sc. (of the University College of North Wales, 

 Bangor), Convener of the Cultivations Sub-Committee, who 

 was in charge of the enquiry. 



I am, 

 Sir, 



Your obedient Servant, 



T. H. MIDDLBTON, 

 Deputy -Director- General. 



Food Production Department, 

 72, Victoria Street, 



London, S.W.I. 

 August, 1917. 



