10 MARCH 1933, Page 13

NORFOLK OR WILTSHIRE ?

Some very wide districts, especially in West Norfolk, are now farmed, so to say, by engineers. One of the biggest single farms covers about 6,000 acres, and would have been a mar- vellous object-lesson in the use of the multiple-harvester if more skilled men had been available. Most has been heard of the mechanized experiments in Wiltshire, which competes with Norfolk as a pioneer county in agriculture. Mr. Hosier is perhaps the nearest equivalent to " Coke of Norfolk " but Norfolk is likely to lead in mechanized grain-farming.