Land Reclamation

Abstract

THIS book gives an excellent account of problems facing the officers of the war agricultural executive committees in their task of increasing food production during the War. It was essential national policy that as much food as possible should be grown at home, and that so far as possible every acre of potentially good land should be cultivated. But several decades of agricultural depression had left their mark in thousands of acres of land being abandoned or being so badly farmed that in 1939 they made no worthwhile contribution to the national larder. Much of this land was potentially fertile ; it was merely costly and difficult to keep in good heart and in many areas it had broken most of the farmers who were trying to get a living off it. Land Reclamation By P. J. O. Trist. Pp. 178 + 15 plates. (London: Faber and Faber, Ltd., 1948.) 15s. net.