Agriculture
Found in 288 Collections and/or Records:
(Untitled), [May 1907]
Incomplete minute by [a Board of Agriculture and Fisheries official] on the respective merits of large and small-scale farming. Typescript. Sent with CHAR 2/30/37.
(Untitled), 29 May 1908
Letter from Henry Rider Haggard (Royal Commission on Coast Erosion, 35 Great George Street, Westminster, [London]) to WSC accompanying a copy of Rural England [not present] and advocating a scheme of national afforestation to encourage small-holders and thereby combat rural depopulation.
(Untitled), 17 Nov 1908
Letter from J Nash (10 Downing Street) to Edward Marsh on the nomination of chairmen of royal commissions and the refusal of Herbert Asquith [alter 1st Lord Oxford and Asquith] to see a deputation about Canadian cattle.
(Untitled), 26 Dec 1908
(Untitled), 29 Dec 1908
(Untitled), 14 Mar 1910
Letter from Edwin Montagu (House of Commons) to WSC endorsing WSC's attack on the inactivity of the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries and pointing out that in south- west Norfolk and West Cambridgeshire the Small Holdings Acts were successful and therefore nurtured Liberalism. Argues against the resignation of the Government. An annotated typescript copy of this letter is at CHAR 2/45/65.
(Untitled), 24 Jun 1910
Letter from Lucien Wolf (15 Brunswick Square, London) to WSC urging that the Board of Agriculture be revitalised and advocating a scheme of land reform and other measures as the most effective way of countering Tariff Reform. Signed typescript. Annotated that WSC protests against Wolf's attributing to him an idea for a system of bounties.
(Untitled), 23 Sep 1903
Letter from Goldwin Smith to WSC, on the failure of the Canadian harvest, and on opposition to protective tariffs in Canada.
(Untitled), 12 Nov 1903
Letter from John Biggs to WSC, on ficsal reform and the effect on British agriculture.
(Untitled), 14 Jan 1904
Letter from Sir Horace Plunkett to WSC, on WSC's forthcoming visit to Dublin, regretting that the Irish Department of Agriculture could not take sides over the fiscal question.
(Untitled), 18 Nov 1903
Letter from Charles Hill to WSC, on danger to British agriculture from protective tariffs for corn and agricultural produce from the Colonies.
(Untitled), 27 Jan 1904
Letter from A.J. Moore (a North-West Canadian Farmer) to WSC, setting out opposition to a preferential tariff on wheat, pointing out that this would be of little benefit to the Canadian farmer, or the English workman.
(Untitled), [1910]
Part of a speech to a committee of the House of Commons on unemployment insurance and government meausures to encourage agriculture. Typescript annotated by WSC.
(Untitled), 19 May 1936
Circular letter from W Hill Forster, Secretary, Central and Associated Chambers of Agriculture, inviting WSC to become a member, enclosing copy of "Journal".
(Untitled), 28 May 1936
Letter from W Hill Forster, Central and Associated Chambers of Agriculture, to WSC, asking him to speak at meeting on "Food Production in relation both to Defence and National Health".
(Untitled), 14 Oct 1936
Letter from Reginald Franklin, PS to Walter Elliot, Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries to Violet Pearman, PS to WSC, on the Pigs and Bacon Marketing schemes and their effect on the price of bacon, enclosing cutting from "The Times".
(Untitled), 22 Oct 1936
Letter from Reginald Franklin, Ministry of Agriculture, and Fisheries, to Violet Pearman, PS to WSC, giving figures for the consumption of bacon in the UK in 1935.
(Untitled), Oct 1936
Pamphlet - Agriculture - The Home Market and National Security - Views of The National Farmers' Union on current agricultural problems, (Second Edition) Published by the National Farmers' Union (N.F.U. No. 51).
(Untitled), 21 Mar 1943
(Untitled), 07 Apr 1919
Letter from [WSC] to Lord Ernle [earlier Rowland Prothero] [President of the Board of Agriculture] asking whether there can be any national advantage to the regulations whereby he [WSC] has to buy hay from a dealer at a price much higher than that he would have to pay if he purchased from local farmers. Typescript copy.
(Untitled), 07 Apr 1919
Letter from Lord Ernle [earlier Rowland Prothero] (Board of Agriculture and Fisheries) to WSC referring his query about the regulation of the hay market to the Chief Administrative Member of the Forage Committee.
(Untitled), 23 Aug 1919
(Untitled), 02 Dec 1921
Letter from Professor Robert Wallace (the University, Edinburgh, [Scotland]) to WSC enclosing an article on the importation of Canadian cattle [see CHAR 2/118/24].
(Untitled), 07 Nov 1921
Article on Professor Robert Wallace's criticism of the conclusions of the Royal Commission on the importation of store cattle with regard to the importation of Canadian cattle. Sent with CHAR 2/118/23.
(Untitled), 19 Apr 1922
Letter from Edward Marsh to A E Southernwood reporting that WSC understands that the War Office do not believe that [the re-opening of Deptford cattle market] is yet a practical commercial proposition. Carbon typescript copy.