20 FEBRUARY 1909, Page 27

Story of a Staffordshire Farm. By the Tenant, T. Carrington

Smith. , (j. and C. Most, Stafford.)—Mr. Carrington Smith made good use of two economical facts which were not so well known when he began farming as they are now. The first was that it was a good thing to turn arable into grass. Wheat in 18i6 had not, it is true, sunk to the price of forty years later, bat the change was in the air. The second fact was that landlord and tenant ought to pull together, and that by so doing they work for their mutual benefit. The details of the "story" will interest the agricultural reader in the first instance ; but there is much that others may learn from it.