1922.] 



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ACREAGE OP HOPS— Preliminary Statement coiiii.iled in.in 

 the lietiirns collected on the 3rd June, 1922, showing tlie Acrkauk under 

 Hops in each County of Kngland in wliich Hops were grown, w ith ;i 

 CoMi'AHATiVK Statkment for tlic years r.>21 and 11120. 



COUNTIKS, &C. 



1922. 



li»2I. 



1 920. 



Kent - 



"East 



Mid 



Weald 



4,010 

 5,520 

 7,110 



Ac/'fis, 

 4.010 



r,,4io 



(1,630 



A eves, 

 3,260 

 4,520 

 5,710 





L Total, Kent ... 



16,640 



1 G,050 



13,490 



Hants 



Hereford 



Surrey 



Sussex 



Worcester 



Other Counties 



1,070 

 3,950 

 220 

 2,330 

 2,030 

 90 



1,040 

 3.520 

 200 

 2,270 

 1.960 

 90 



840 

 2.990 



170 

 1,790 

 1.660 

 60 



TO'lAL 



26,330 



25.130 



21,000 



* 



* 



* * 



* 



* 



NOTICES OF BOOKS. 



Agricultural Co-operation in England and Wales. -(W. II. 

 arinan, with a Preface hy Leslie Scott, K.C., M.P. London: Williams and 

 Xorgate. Price 5s. net.) It is a strange fact that persons who regard them- 

 selves as being practical and hard-headed and independent of theories are 

 nearly always theory-ridden. The only difference is that the theories are 

 theirs, of long and cherished establishment, and neither new nor derived from 

 other people. There is an idea that the English farmer, even the most 

 progressive of the class, is afraid or impatient of theories. Hence when Sir 

 Leslie Scott wrote the Preface to this book, he was careful to insist that the 

 practice of agricnltural co-operation does not involve the acceptance of a social 

 theory. Yet the practice of co-operation, in any industry, involves a theory of 

 commerce ; and the buying, selling and transport of goods constitutes a high 

 proportion of a nation's economic activities. It is a striking commentary on 

 the present economic organization, that the transport and distribution of goods 

 require anything from a quarter to one-half the amount of labour that is 

 re(iuired to produce them. This is the case even with farm produce. Indeed, 

 in some individual cases, such as bread, there may be more labour used in the 

 transport, mannfactm-e and distribution of the linished article than in tlie 

 production of the raw material. This is the reason why the ft)nii and condition 

 of the organization for buying and selling farm produce is of such great 

 importance to the farmer. The present organization for buying and selling is 

 based on one theory, the co-operative organization is based on another, and 

 even if these theories are unimportant to the English farmer, the result of the 

 practices may mean the difference between profit and loss on the farm. 



The value of tlieories, however, often depends upon the way in which they 

 are established. The best are nearly always those which arise direct from the 



