The county war agricultural executive committees: The Welsh experience, 1939-1945

Welsh History Review

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 558-586

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1. K. A. H. Murray, History of the Second World War: Agriculture, (London, 1955)
2. J. Brown, Agriculture in England: A Survey of Farming, 1870-1947 (Manchester, 1987)
3. J. Martin, The Development of Modern Agriculture: British Farming since 1931 (London, 2000)
4. B. Short, C. Watkins, W. Foot and P. Kinsman, The National Farm Survey, 1941-1943: State Surveillance and the Countryside in England and Wales in the Second World War (London, 2000)
5. A. Howkins, The Death of Rural England (London, 2003)
6. Martin, Modern Agriculture p. 134
7. Short et al., The National Farm Survey, p.33. The £2 per acre ploughing grant amounted to twice the actual ploughing cost and contributed significantly to the £5 per acre cost of ploughing, cultivating and liming permanent pasture
8. By the end of 1941, 6,700 tractors were owned and maintained by the Ministry, the number increasing to 10,660 by 1944 (Murray, Agriculture, p. 334)
9. In the country as a whole tractor numbers advanced from 56,200 in 1939 to 203,400 in 1946, combine harvesters increasing in number from 1,000 in 1942 to 3,640 in 1946. Meanwhile the numbers of potato diggers expanded from 37,980 to 64,620 between 1942 and 1946 (J. Brown, Farm Machinery, 1750-1945 (London, 1989), pp. 80-2)
10. Ministry of Information, Land at War; The Official Story of British Farming, 1939-1944, (London, 1945)
11. For the parallel situation in the First World War see P. E. Dewey, British Agriculture in the First World War (London, 1989)
12. E. H. Whetham, The Agrarian History of England and Wales, VIII, 1914-1939 (Cambridge, 1978). The County Agricultural Committees had been the sole local agricultural authorities before 1939, serving as a link between the Board (Ministry) of Agriculture and the farmer. Responsible for agricultural education, they had been given powers of supervision of husbandry under the Corn Production Act, but had lost these after its repeal in 1921. Henceforth their powers were limited to educational matters and mediating landlord-tenant relations under the Agricultural Holdings Act
13. J. P. Maxton, The Control of Husbandry: A Discussion of the Future of the War Agricultural Executive Committees (Oxford, 1945), p. 22
14. Which many farmers had difficulty in comprehending (J. Currie, 'The organisation and work of the War Agricultural Executive Committees', Public Administration, 18 (1940), 98)
15. R. G. Stapledon, (ed.), Farming and Mechanical Agriculture, 1948 (London, 1949), pp. 70-1
16. University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, Reports to the Court of Governors, 1940-1944
17. G. Evans, Pioneers of Gogerddan (Aberystwyth, 1987)
18. J. Winnifrith, The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (London, 1962), p. 27
19. Cambrian News, 31 May 1940
20. See Short et al., National Farm Survey, passim
21. Maxton, Control of Husbandry, pp. 31-2
22. Cambrian News, 4 December 1942
23. Carmarthen Journal, 28 June 1940
24. Cambrian News, 18 March, 2 April 1943
25. Cambrian News, 12 May 1944
26. A. W. Ashby, J. H. Smith and W. J. Thomas, 'Fertility and war production on Welsh farms', Welsh Journal of Agriculture, 8 (1943), 5
27. J. D. Griffiths, 'The changeover to wartime milk production', Welsh Journal of Agriculture, 17 (1944), 35
28. Carmarthen Journal, 29 January 1943
29. Cambrian News, 18 April 1941
30. W. H. Jones, 'Wartime farming in Pembrokeshire', Journal of the Ministry of Agriculture, 50 (1943), 505
31. R. Howells (ed.), Stackpole and the Bennions: Autobiography of the Late John E. Bennion (Llandysul, 1964), p. 64
32. R. M. Lockley, Inland Farm (London, 1943), p. 179
33. Carmarthen Journal, 30 October 1942
34. Carmarthen Journal, 13 June 1941
35. M. Griffith, The Best Utilisation of Hill Land, War Food Production Bulletin No. 2 (Aberystwyth, 1941)
36. Viscount Astor and B. S. Rowntree, Mixed Farming and Muddled Thinking: An Analysis of Current Agricultural Policy (London, 1946), p. 16
37. P. Self and H. Storing, The State and the Farmer (London, 1962), p. 112
38. J. Wentworth Day, Harvest Adventures (London, 1946), pp. 266-72
39. D. Jenkins, Clear the Harvest Dawn; Hugh James, a Pioneer in Agricultural Organisation (Carmarthen, 1987), p. 84
40. M. Titchelar, 'The Labour party, agricultural policy and the retreat from land nationalisation during the Second World War', Agricultural History Review 51 (2), 2003, 211-12
41. Winnifrith, Ministry of Agriculture, pp. 30-1