2 FEBRUARY 1934, Page 17

Homeless Vermin_

Wide and fairly- level Space's without, interruption are necessary for this sort of farming ; and it is certainly true that the extinction of the hedge makes the control of vermin Comparatively easy. It seems not unlikely that where wheat is going to be the chief .crop a great many hedges will finally disappear. Nevertheless, the face of England will perhaps not be much altered. We shall continue to be a stock-raising country and. the value of the hedge to stock is beyond all question. At the same time those who set most value on the hedge begin to confess that hedges and trees 'do not consent to a mutual relation` and the disappearance of the two in conjunction will not improbably mark the England of to- morrow from the England of today.