| Description | Correspondence primarily regarding queries and advice between J R Currie and: William K Slater; C D Ross, Devon County War Agricultural Executive Committee; R Henderson, Seale-Hayne Agricultural College; Ministry for Agriculture and Fisheries; National Institute for Research in Dairy; J J MacGregor, Harper Adams Agricultural College; A Ashby, and W Ellison, University College of Wales; A W Menzies Kitchin, Scientific Food Policy Committee; H Medley-Costin, Women's Land Army; R Veale, Whiteley Farm; L C Pateson; A Jones, and Dr T W Gardner, University of Manchester; R Wood, Bucks War Agricultural Sub-committee; The Tamar Valley Fruit and Flower Growers' Association; E A Gutkind, Demographic Survey and Plan; National Service Committee; M Griffith, Welsh Plant Breeding Station; J Cripps, The Country Man; M Livegrove; Department for Agriculture for Scotland; The Hannah Dairy Research Institute; National Framers' Union; F A S Gwatkin; A Lane; F S Andrews, Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station; H Leatherbarrow; J Strang, Northamptonshire Agricultural Education Committee; K Fairlie Kaye, Shropshire Agricultural Executive Committee; Allen Lane, director of Penguin Books Ltd; J McClean, Overseas Food Corporation; M Digby, The Horace Plunkett Foundation; R H Giles; W Morley Davies, Agricultural Improvement Council for England and Wales; D Singh; Max Nicholson, The Nature Conservancy; A Jenkins, The Farmers' Club; G Dunnett, Commonwealth Economic Committee; Leonard Elmhirst; H R Davidson; N Mukherjee; CR Wordsworth; P Wakeman, The Maynard School; Robert Hening, architect; and P Case, Rectory House Farm.
Subjects include general farm management and matters; farmers assessment forms; costings data; milking machines; a special Provincial Conference with representatives of Ministry and County War Executive Committees; potatoes; an enquiry into the work output of women engaged in agriculture; agriculture and the national plan; national service; training courses; scholarships; Dairy Herds; agricultural economics; the credit position of small farms; surveys by the Agricultural Research Council; weed identification; crop drying; employment; rabbit elimination; and The Nuffield Foundation.
This folder also contains: a memorandum by Professor A Ashby 'On the Supply of Fertilisers in Relation to Increased Production', and 'Memorandum upon the Planning of British Agricultural Policy for Post War Conditions, with Special Reference to Land Adminstration', an article by Friend Sykes, 'Scrap the Plough', and a paper by N Mukherjee, 'My Visit to Dartington Hall Estate'. |