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AN excellent economic survey, the second of the series, based on a sample of more than a thousand farms, has recently been published (University of Cambridge: Department of Agriculture, Farm Economics Branch. Report No. 21: βAn Economic Survey of Agriculture in the Eastern Counties of England, 1932β. Pp. vi-f 89. Cambridge: School of Agriculture, 1933. 2s. Qd. net). As a record of what is actually happening to the individual units of agriculture in the eastern counties of England, it could scarcely be bettered. Reality is an excellent antidote to indiscriminate theorising in any subject; surveys such as this enable the hard facts of an industry of small units like agriculture to be ascer tained. Without a factual basis of this type there can be no sound future planning or adequate criticism of past planning.
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Economic Survey of Agriculture in the East of England. Nature 133, 491β492 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133491d0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/133491d0