Reference
WW2/AC1/1
Title
Correspondence on various subjects, including, amongst others:
- progress reports of Executive Officer giving figures for acreage for which Ploughing Up Orders had been served, land taken into possession for breaking up and ploughing, tenancies terminated due to bad cultivation, Direction Orders issued regarding cultivation, numbers of tractors at work and general remarks;
- Ministry of Agriculture Weekly News Service bulletins and other circulars;
- Statement on machinery and implements listing those supplied by the Government, that purchased by the Committee, work done and fuel consumption;
- information from House of Commons reports;
- ploughing up of public footpaths;
- correspondence with National Trust regarding proposed ploughing on Dunstable Downs;
- correspondence with Davis Estates Ltd. regarding undeveloped building land they proposed using for agricultural purposes;
- refusal of Woburn Experimental Farm to break up grass land;
- breaking up land, including golf courses in the county;
- need to thatch corn ricks to protect them from rain.
Date free text
1939-1940
Production date
From: 1939 To: 1940
Language
English
Level of description
item