2 APRIL 1921, Page 26

Political Aspects of Agriculture. (Oxford University Press.) —Lord Bledisloe has

reprinted as a pamphlet an address given at the " Oxford Plough Club " dinner last November. It contains an account of the recent Agricultural Act, of which he disapproves in principle, but to which, as amended by the House of Lords, he is prepared to give his support. He particularly dislikes giving the Government power to force a farmer to convert his grass-land into arable, but as that power has now been eliminated from the Act its chief objection has gone. We recommend Lord Bledisloe'a pamphlet to all those who wish for a concise account of what has been don, by the Government in agricultural matters since the war.