23 NOVEMBER 1951, Page 18

Fouling Your Own Nest

For how many home-growers is not the prohibition of imported fresh fruits a lifebelt against a sea of troubles ! I am reminded of a Hereford- shire farm of interacting cora, hops, Jerseys, permanent grass and fruit I have known intimately for ten years. The farm is run on organic lines and its yields are prodigious. The condition of the fruit is Hesperidean. Last year, the imports of foreign fruit forced the owner to sell scores of bushels of impeccable dessert pears and apples to Bulmers at Id. per lb.