SECTIONAL TRANSACTIONS.— M. 

 Eastern England. 



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When, as in tliis case, psychological or human influences have been excluded, it 

 will be agreed that deductions based on the results achieved are worthy of close 

 study, aslbeing in all probability typical of conditions ruling throughout the area in 

 question— on the ' modal,' that is to say, rather than on that elusive entity— the 

 ' average ' farm. 



Studies, often State-inspired, of particular commodities, e.g. wheat, milk, sugar- 

 beet, must always make appeal both to Governments (in connection with policy) and 

 to producers, while complete investigations possess more value to the individual 

 farmer and research worker. When based on sound statistical foundations, granted 

 a prolonged life and careful direction, both can produce dependable results; ill- 

 prepared and short-lived, nothing can excel them as aiaterial for the manufacture of 

 misleading assumptions and false generalisations. 



