Wellmann Imre szerk.: A Magyar Mezőgazdasági Múzeum Közleményei 1971-1972 (Budapest, 1973)

Minchinton, Walter E.: The agricultural regions of England and Wales

Fig. 4 division based on soil types can be. Soils imay differ substantially in England within a small area and the detailed information on which a satisfactory soil map of the country could be based is still not available. Moreover while differ­ent types of farming may be found on identical soil types, there may be a uniformity of farming on areas of differing soil types. Some of the limitations of the use of counties to distinguish farming re­gions was recognised by WILLIAM MARSHALL (1745—1818), the agricultural commentator. In a series of volumes he attempted to escape from the strait­jacket imposed by the administrative county and to adopt an alternative basis

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