Cutting from the Times: criticism of WSC's assertion that methods of tillage in the United Kingdom are antiquated.

Letter from Sir Thomas Elliott (Board of Agriculture and Fisheries) to Edward Marsh on the misreporting by the Times of WSC's remarks on systems of cultivation.

Letter from Sir Thomas Elliott (Board of Agriculture and Fisheries) to Edward Marsh enclosing and commenting on minutes by Board officials on WSC's remarks on systems of cultivation [see CHAR 2/30/40-46].

Telegram from Alfred Jones (Liverpool) to WSC congratulating him on his recent remarks about monopolies and reporting that he (Jones) is about to go to Manchester to meet Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman and to discuss policy on the railways and cotton-growing.

Minute by "R H R" [a Board of Agriculture and Fisheries official] responding to WSC's reported remarks about Britain's obsolete system of agriculture with a comparison with practice in Denmark. Typescript. Sent with CHAR 2/30/37.

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.

Letter from [WSC] to the editor of the Times on Henry Rider Haggard's assertion that rural depopulaton and urban congestion can only be remedied by a multiplication of small holdings and a system of Protection. Draft in the hand of ?.

Letter from WSC to 1st Lord Addison on the separate responsibilities of the Development Committee and the Agricultural Research Council; the former confined to recommendations to the Treasury of how funds should be distributed.

Letter from WSC to 1st Lord Addison [Development Commission] enquiring about the outcome of conversations with the Chancellor of the Exchequer [Sir Kingsley Wood] and the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries [Robert Hudson] about their division of responsibility.

Circular letter from Kent War Agricultural Executive Committee, asking landowners to complete a form on the 1943 Cropping Forecast. [Printed].

Letter from C R Bailey, District Technical Officer, Kent War Agricultural Executive Committee to WSC, with a report on Chartwell [Kent] that the ploughing of part of WSC's park for food production was not a success, recommending that the land should be cultivated in the spring, and then sown to permanent pasture, which could then be leased to a neighbouring farmer for grazing. [Copy].

Leaflet issued by the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries on Winter Feed. [Printed].

Circular letter from Kent War Agricultural Committee to every farmer in Kent, on conversion of grassland to arable for food production, enclosing Ministry of Agriculture leaflet "Making More of Less Grass Land". [Printed]. Annotated and initialled by WSC, asking CSC what could be done about the land at Chartwell.

Minute from Leslie Rowan [Private Secretary to WSC] to WSC, on the ration of sugar for the bees at Chartwell [Kent].

Minute from Robert Hudson [Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries], and 1st Lord Woolton [Minister of Food, earlier Frederick Marquis] on the provision of a sugar ration for bees.

Minute from WSC to the Minister of Agriculture [Robert Hudson] and the Minister of Food [1st Lord Woolton, earlier Frederick Marquis] on the discontinuance of the sugar ration to domestic bee keepers, demanding to know the saving in "starving the bees of private owners". [Carbon].

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.

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.

Letter from Sir Ian Hamilton (1 Hyde Park Gardens, [London]) to WSC noting that the first of the articles on the Dardanelles by Lord Fisher [earlier Sir John Fisher] is not hostile to WSC, referring to the valuation of the stock on the farm [at Lullenden] and arguing that Sir George Arthur's portrayal of WSC as an overwhelmingly persuasive and powerful figure during the Dardanelles campaign will do WSC good rather than harm.

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].

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.

Letter from [WSC] to Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Arthur Griffith-Boscawen [Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries] on the removal of the embargo on the import of Canadian cattle. Carbon typescript copy.

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.

Letter from Goldwin Smith to WSC, on the failure of the Canadian harvest, and on opposition to protective tariffs in Canada.