21 JUNE 1946, Page 12

COUNTRY LIFE

THE master in these country matters, for whom I play locum year by year, wrote a few weeks ago about the effect of latter-day agricultural conditions upon the hird-life of England. Something is also to be noted about the consequences of the cessation of war (I won't yet call this condition peace), especially in South-Eastern England over which so many noisy missiles burst, interrupted on their way to London.