AGRICULTURAL ARTICLES; and MARKETING).
Since 1922 arrangements have been completed by the Ministry of Agriculture for the local study of farm organization and equip ment throughout England and Wales, to supplement the work carried on by the Agricultural Economics Research Institute at Oxford and with this body as a co-ordinating centre. For the purpose of advisory work of all kinds among farmers the country was mapped out, some years ago, into provinces, each of which is equipped with an advisory staff of experts in the various branches of agricultural science. These staffs have now been strengthened by the inclusion in each of an advisory economist, who is occupied with the study of farm management problems arising within his particular province. Their function is mainly to assist the farmers of their districts to greater efficiency in the control of farm man agement, whilst, at the same time, the information and data accumulated by them in the course of their work is available for the use of the central institute at Oxford for co-ordination and review upon a national basis.