| Description | Correspondence and other records primarily regarding the preparation, research, publication, distribution and revision of An Agricultural Survey in South Devon. Correspondents include: J R Currie; Leonard Elmhirst; C E Ladd, F A Pearson, and W I Myers, Cornell University; Edgar Thomas, Advisory Agricultural Economics, University of Reading; The Agricultural Economics Society; the United States Department of Agriculture; National Library of Scotland; Trinity College Library; The National Library of Wales; the Royal Agricultural Society of England; the Principal of Seale-Hayne College; J E Lattimer, Professor of Agricultural Economics, Macdonald College; and PJ Macfarlan, Devon County Agricultural Officer.
Records include: press cuttings; a publication, 'Some Changes in South Devon Farming' (a series of articles prepared by the Department of Economics, Seale-Hayne Agricultural College), Nov 1935; a list of expenses incurred by Dartington Hall over the Agricultural Survey in South Devon, undertaken jointly with Seale-Hayne; a list of people and institutions who have received copies of Report 1 An Agricultural Survey in South Devon; a copy of an outline 'Survey of farming in South Devon'; 'South Devon Survey', 1950; and forms used for the survey including, 'Record of a Year's Business on a Farm', 'Factor Sheet for Analyzing (Analysing) South Devon Farms', 'Dairy Farm Record', 'Supplement to Dairy Farm Record', 'Farm Management Chart', and 'List of Implements'. |