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FORTUNATELY for the countryside of England, there have always been men who have felt the urge to reclaim heaths, moors and wastelands and bring them into agricultural use. Reclamation went on vigorously during the Napoleonic Wars, during the War of 1914–18, and during the present War; it has hitherto been essentially an emergency activity. Unfortunately, a great deal of the land thus brought into cultivation has been allowed to go derelict again, so that the whole of the capital embarked has been lost. Reclamation on the grand scale has been undertaken during the present War and a fascinating account of one of these enterprises has now been published.
(1) The Farm in the Fen
By Alan Bloom. Pp. 192 + 20 plates. (London: Faber and Faber, Ltd., 1944.) 10s. 6d. net.
(2) This Farming Business
By Frank Sykes. Pp. 160 + 8 plates. (London: Faber and Faber, Ltd., 1944.) 8s. 6d. net.
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RUSSELL, E. English Agriculture, Now and Afterwards. Nature 154, 471–473 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/154471a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/154471a0