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THIS annual reference book, now in its third edition, provides a conspectus of the organisation of agriclture in the United Kingdom. Farmers are well awaye, perhaps painfully aware, of the complexity of this Organisation; but the reader who has no professional contact with agriculture may well be surprised at the number of official and private bodies which exist to control or develop different parts of the industry. Ten Ministries or Departments, and twenty-eight statutory bodies with numerous committees, the work of which is concerned in varying degree with agriculture, are listed in addition to thirty-five national societies or associations and many local ones. According to the point of view of the reader, these figures may be taken as a striking illustration of the size and importance of the agricultural industry, and the diversity of its products, or as an example of the insidious growth of bureaucracy.
Farming and Mechanised Agriculture
Edited by Sir H. George Stapledon. Pp. 492. (London and New York: Todd Publishing Co. Ltd., 1946.) 21s. net.
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WATSON, D. Farming and Mechanised Agriculture. Nature 158, 812 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/158812a0
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