Country Life
THE BEST FARM.
Though comparisons are, as we know, " odorous," they may be very helpful and are the chief cause of progress. So it may be legitimate to ask, as a large group of visitors to rural England have been asking, what is the best-farmed land in Britain ? I am told that the Overseas fanners who have been touring this country give the palm to the North, espe- cially to the farms round Aberdeen. For myself, I should put first some of the farms in South Lincolnshire, and there is a farm or two in North Norfolk very hard to beat. Few farmers perhaps get so big a return to the acre as the market gardeners of Bedford in the neighbourhood of Sandy and Biggleswade. They are only surpassed by those who farm under glass ; and it is on record that a gross return of £900 to the acre was secured by a tomato grower in Essex. He excelled even the inhabitants of " the Valley of Glass " in Guernsey.
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