12 APRIL 1930, page 15

Farmers And Beef.

Farmers are much interested in the controversy, first challenged by Sir William Haldane, over the question whether or no meat production is to be a standard source of wealth in......

Under Encouragement From Lord Milner, Whose " Master- Bias "

was rather towards botany- and gardens than to pro- . consulship, he first launched the theme of regional planning in his book on the organization of the new Kent that must......

A Vegetarian World.

From several points of view beef is the most wasteful of all forms of food. Acres allotted to the production of vege- tarian food will support from five to ten times as many......

This Is Not The Place To Review Those Two Most

thoughtful books on regional planning • one for the. Bristol and Bath area, the other—the result of five years of thorough investiga- tion and enquiry—for North East Lancashire,......

Country Life

THE ZONING OF ENGLAND. On thefront page of my local paper appear no fewer than three advertisements by local bodies of planning schemes, one of them a rural planning scheme,......

The Mind Of The Professor Of Civics Soars As Boldly

as his brother's, the poet's. He throws out the lyrical suggestion that values should be pooled, that ownership in property should be rationalized, even that a parish might be......

Rabbits And Ferrets.

A letter, full of personal observation, reaches me from General Higginson, whose knowledge of natural history, especially in County Down, is as extensive as Sam Weller's of......

Thrush U. Blackbird.

A correspondent living on the edge of a Scottish town asks : " Why have my thrushes vanished, though the black- birds remain ? " Personally I know no place where black- birds......