Foreword 



Mr. Tumor, in summing up his carefully 

 assembled data, has done well to give 

 expression to conclusions which may be slow 

 in reaching the minds and consciences of a 

 traditionally conservative people, but the 

 truth of which will without doubt ultimately 

 — it is to be hoped not too late — become 

 patent both to British agriculturists and 

 British statesmen. 



EDWARD STRUTT. 



Whitelands, 



Essex, January, 1916. 



