Country Life
OXFORD RESEARCH.
A very distinctive note in. the chronicling of our husbandry, of the production of our acres, has been struck by the pamphle- teers who have recorded the research work of the economists of Oxford University. Mr. C. S. Orwin, who has inspired them has always shown a genius for accounts, since the days when he was agent for Mr. Christopher Tumor in Lincolnshire and provided the land for the Daily Mail small holding experiment. He has become one of the first authorities on " costings "—a blessed if ugly word ; and this interest has led him to an ardent belief in the machine and the saving of labour costs. Perhaps his championship has been exag- gerated: you will hardly increase the rural population by diminishing labour ; but however that may be, there is no question at all that the Oxford "Occasional Notes" have been invaluable ; and it is good news that they are likely to be extended now that the first five years plan is successfully completed.
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