12 OCTOBER 1929, page 16

The Committee Discussed The Figures In Order To Decide...

more publicity should be given, and decided against further publication for the time being. Doubtless the success is exceptional, not normal ; but publicity can only do good,......

Country Life

A FARMING REVIVAL ? One may not speak of a general revival in British farming; if only for the reason that quoted examples of ruin and loss rain on the head of any and every......

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AUTUMN OR SPRING ? The rain did not cheer only the birds. The grass has sung a spring song. Lawns are green again beyond expectation ; and we may be thankful that we live in......

Direct Sale.

Some of the produce of these farms is sold at the roadside ; and before leaving the subject, a word may be said on the subject of direct sale by producer to consumer, recently......

I Do Not Know Mr. Hansen's Farm, But I Know

well another Berkshire farm Of about the same acreage—near Kingston Bagpuize—where derelict farms have been retrieved by high farming, - and propose to give some further account......

A Good Deal Has Been Written Of Late (chiefly In

the Daily News) about a Berkshire farm and the salient success of its Danish owner, Mr. Hansen, who is well known as Chairman of the Danish Bacon Company, Ltd. He makes his 350......

Migrant Birds.

Already —I speak of the home counties (that pleasant English term)—some of the winter migrants have arrived. - Numbers of green plover have come south, some pigeon, and I hear......

Nevertheless And Notwithstanding, Signs Of Revival Pop Up...

from many unexpected quarters. For example : in Hertfordshire a few farms are vacant, and some are let at the nominal rent of 8s. 6d. an acre. A great many ex-arable acres are......