ABSTRACT
In 1931 Adrian Bell, the Suffolk farmer and author, wrote of the autumn of 1921:1
Trade had been adverse since I started farming, but in those precipitous times probably less so than many other kinds of trade. Farmers pulled long faces, but they had not yet realized that their wartime pat on the back nationally was but a panic impulse; the Corn Production Act’s immediate repeal gave them a taste of political wriggling, but still they thought it was but a momentary sinking of the prosperous breeze. I, too, hoped.
