BRITAIN'S WORST FARMING YEAR
Tit'ccived Mondav, 7 p.m. LONDON, Dec. 22. The year 194(5 will go down in history as Britain worst farming year .siiiee 1879. says the Sunday Express' agrieultural correspondent. A bad autumn followed a disastrous harvest, and today more than half the farm lands are - either too sodden or too frozen for eultivation. Only a fraction of the 1947 corn crops have been sown, and a lot of. wlieat, jtist sprouting, has been drowned. .Most of the wireat for the 1947 harvest will have to be sown in the spring, which nieans lighter crops. Sugar beet in some areas is still in the fields and the promised record vield' may not be realised. Root crops are fro/.en in their clamps and will probablv rot when the thaw comes. Farmers forecast a sharp drop in railk yields in February and March when feeding stuffs will be practicallv finished. Experts esthnate that so many have, left the land that only 10,000 above pre-war figuies will be available in 1947. Despite the largel.v increased acreage under production half Britain 's machinerv is being exported, and farmers every where are protesting against the shortage of spares.
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Chronicle (Levin), 24 December 1946, Page 5
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195BRITAIN'S WORST FARMING YEAR Chronicle (Levin), 24 December 1946, Page 5
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