12 SEPTEMBER 1952, page 19

Harness Brass Every Country Town Has At Least One Antique

shop that sells bits of brass that people are pleased to call horse brast. These days it hardly matters that ninety-nine per cent. of the stuff never saw a saddler's shop, let......

Potato Harvest

They are harvesting in the potato field now. The adjoining stubble is fawn. The oats are off the far hill, the bit of wheat safely under cover, and the potatoes are beginning to......

The Milk Run When The Milk Lorry Stopped On The

very steepest part of the hill, I was surprised. The driver poked his head out of the cab and offered me a lift. I was enjoying myself. The lift hardly mattered, for the day was......

Attending To Leeks Earth Up Leeks And Trim Yellowing Leaves

that are dragging in the soil. It is a good thing to feed the plants with liquid manure suitably diluted. Leeks develop well in the next month or two and are worth......

Country Life

AWAY ahead of me the moorland road twisted and turned, rose and jell, between banks of heather and ling and a dozen trees of rowan. The thin branches of the rowan were so laden......