All who are concerned with modern farming will welcome The
Farm Economist, a little green-covered magazine—if the word is not too big—to be published monthly by the Agri- cultural Economics Research Institute of Oxford University, in lieu of the notes into which the wisdom of the research workers was previous condensed. The new form is much the more valuable, partly because it includes plums of wisdom from Cambridge, Bristol and such centres of research into husbandry. The Cambridge authorities contribute to this first number a summary of information on the effect of the Wheat Act of 1932. The wheat area for the coming year is 7.6 per cent. over the 1931 acreage, which was the lowest in history. It is expected that the increase in production of wheat by the harvest of 1984, as compared wth the 1932 harvest, will be about 1,600,000 quarters. Is this good, or as bad as Mr. Street argues ? * * * *
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