28 JULY 1928, Page 13

SUN AND HARVEST.

The year is reaching its summit with the grain harvest. Here and there a field of oats will fall next week. What promised to be an exceptionally late harvest will be normal in date ; and should be good in quality. An oddity is the extreme earliness of a few fields of barley. For once in a way the " haysel " should be quite completed before the harvest begins. The crops were light, were cut early, and, in many cases, carried within a few days without any inter- mediate use of fork or tedder. One has seldom seen such green haystacks in so brown 'a countryside.

- W. BRACH Tuomns.