A Pioneer County
The enterprise of Norfolk farmers was seldom more in evidence than today ; and may we take it as evidence that the art of husbandry begins to flourish again in this pioneer county that the wages of the labourers have been increased by a considerable margin ? A deal of excellent fruit is grown in East Anglia ; and in my experience Norfolk landowners more often than in other counties themselves enter the commercial lists. One at least of the country's chief experts —in the culture of black currants—is a famous landowner who spends as much ingenuity in training his bushes as in rounding off the end of his coverts to persuade pheasants to rise scientifically. It is in East Anglia that one of the most successful ventures in the reclamation of land from the sea has been carried through. The Spartina grass continues to spread and to make excellent grazing grounds out of once useless marshes.
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