3 SEPTEMBER 1937, Page 18

The greater pirt of a very rapid harvest of super-excellent

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quality, though not immense quantity, had been gatherel in be- fore August was over, and a good many fields are already ploughed. Peripatetic tractors and ploughs have seldom had more demands on their services. The tempo of farming.' steadily increases, and the advance is peculiarly apparent this year. The scenery itself has changed in the twinkling of an eye, while still the leaves of the trees give little or no hint that autumn arrives.

W. BEACH THOMAS.