FOREWORD 



Mr. Christopher Turnor, as a practical 

 agriculturist, has presented in the following 

 pages important facts and figures relating to 

 the present condition of Agricultural England. 

 They are, I think, valuable and suggestive 

 to every agriculturist, and not the least so to 

 those who may not be willing to go so far as 

 the author in his conclusions. The issues 

 raised in his book are more comprehensive 

 and far-reaching than questions which merely 

 affect production. The greatness of England 

 was founded in the past upon the sturdiness 

 and resourcefulness of her rural population, 

 and these in turn were largely due to the 

 variety and extent of the arable cultivation 

 of her fields and to the home production 

 of her people's food. But the growing 

 depopulation of her countryside and the 

 ever-increasing area of her grass land are 

 matters of the gravest concern to all who 

 consider the destinies of the nation. 



