Early one morning last week, Farmer Frederick Henry Dennis, 34, looked out over his 1,000-acre farm at Poslingford Hall, Suffolk. He saw a strange young man drive a big caterpillar tractor into a 20-acre field of ripe buckwheat and calmly begin to plow in the precious crop. Dennis ran towards him, cursing and shouting.
Said the stranger: "I have my orders. The County Agricultural Committee have ordered me to plow in this buckwheat." Then he went on plowing.
Next the village policeman arrived. He ordered Dennis not to interfere. Dennis telephoned the local office of the National Farmers' Union. At the other end...
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