The lively editor of this lively quarterly—the first ever published
in an English village—has been engaged in an original duel that is of concern to all country people. He gave, on the invitation of the B.B.C., a series of agricultural Talks on agriculture, largely about farming in Japan, Holland, and Denmark. The National Farmers' Union, which did not like his point of view, thereupon passed a resolution containing the clause that no one should speak on the wireless about farming who had not " given some evidence of ability to cultivate land at a profit " ! Did ever a responsible body forget its sense of humour quite so completely ? A further suggestion was that all Talks on agriculture should be first submitted to the N.F.U. I It is an Olympian idea that, say, Sir Rowland Biffen or Sir John Russell should be put under censorship by a body which represents one section of one side of a various industry, and has further adopted' the very narrowest of political ulatforms.
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