COUNTRY LIFE
Revolutionary Ploughs How very different are East and West England, not le. :a on the farm. More tilth is just an incident to the Eastern farm or country house. It is a revolution in parts of Wales. Many of the small farmers are almost self-supporting. Their farms exist for the direct support of the family of the farmer, who seldom enters any sort of shop. His fields are small and often stony and he may possess no single piece of ploughing apparatus, or at the best a single plough and an old horse. Nevertheless, his little difficult fields have been invaded by the tractors and other modern instruments, sent by the Agricul- tural Committees ; and what a difficult job the imported ploughers have tackled ! Nevertheless, the work is proceeding with vigour. It will be interesting to see the results. If I may hazard an inference from some local comments, wrung from small farmers who hoe this stock but despise cereals, it will be wise for authority to make sure that these transformed fields are sown, after they have been duly ploughed, and sown with one sort of grain. Parliamentary agriculturists are bound to 'judge from solely Eastern experience.
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