| Description | This series consists of Dartington Hall Trust records, primarily John (Jock) Currie's accumulated through his role as Agricultural Economist and Farm Advisor (1927-1956), and also Leonard Elmhirst's records regarding Agricultural Economics and the Agricultural Economics Research Department at Dartington Hall. The records describe in detail the establishment, function, purpose, organisation, scope, programme of research, and advisory work of the Agricultural Economics Research Department at Dartington Hall and its internal and external activities. The records identify the basic principles and practice upon which Dartington, as an economic experiment, had been founded and the object of that experiment.
The records consist of correspondence primarily accumulated by J R Currie, and Leonard Elmhirst. Major correspondents include: William K Slater (re plan); J P Maxton; Peter Sutcliffe; Maurice Ash; A O (Pom) Elmhirst; J S Nalson; F A S Gwatkin (re plan); Norman Miller (Buckyette Piggery and Poultry Enterprise); W H Long; T Milliman (South Devon cattle); and C F Nielsen.
Subjects include: the Agricultural Economics Research Department; Luxmoore Committee on Agricultural Education; grass drying; pigs; poultry; dairy; South Devon breed cattle; artificial insemination; forestry; textiles; appointments; E J Chaplin's grassland reports; J R Currie's and Leonard Elmhirst's involvement and advice to societies, associations and research institutes; sheep experiments at moorland farms; various farms in South Devon and Yorkshire including Houndhill, Bapton Manor Farm, Buckyette Farm, Barton Farm, School Farm, Old Parsonage Farm, and others.
Records also concern the Dartington Hall Research Grants Board; Currie's 1929 Agricultural Survey of South Devon; Agricultural Economics Society; British Society of Animal Production; agricultural training and workers education; breeding; Political and Economic Planning (PEP); The International Association of Agricultural Economics; farm management surveys, cost account studies, marketing studies, and price studies; agricultural education and farm advisory work.
Additional materials include: memoranda; minutes; an extensive collection of reports collated by the Agricultural Economics Research Department; essays; lecture; articles; press cuttings; photographs; agreements of employment; deeds of trust; and publications including Currie and Long's 1929 report, 'An Agricultural Survey in South Devon.' |