Agricultural History Review, Volume 41 Part 1 (1993), pp. 31–43

The inter-war years were an important period in the development of an institutional and research response to pollution issues. The paper focuses on the problems arising from the newly-established beet- sugar factories and the increasingly centralized milk-handling and -processing industries. Through research and development, it proved possible to accommodate the otherwise wholly welcome developments  in rural enterprise, without incurring the risk of serious pollution to the nearby watercourses. 

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