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Mr. Edward Strutt Mr. Edward Strutt, who has died at

the age of seventy-five, was an extremely active and progressive agriculturist, bringing to his work many of the methods now known under the collective heading of " Rationali- zation." His conduct of the Rayleigh Farms has long been a subject of study for foreigners as well as for Englishmen. During the War he was Agricultural Adviser to the Board of Agriculture, and his name is associated with the Corn Production Act, which was repealed before it had time to be of any use.