16 JANUARY 1932, page 15

Country Life

MACIDNE-MADE CAREMRS. Mr. Orwin, the chief of our agricultural economists, who continues to consider the machine itself as a surer solution than the dews ex machine, has found a......

There Is Some Reason To Fear That The Snaring Of

wild birds is increasing rather than, as one had hoped, diminishing. I know of one particular soarer whose activities are a serious subtraction from the happiness of his......

The Counties Are, I Think, Taking More Pride In Their

individuality or, at any rate, in its expression. The coin. munity council is partly responsible for the Somerset scheme, and though these councils have not been altogether a......

The Point At The Moment Is Not Only The Excess

of the taxation : there is the additional difficulty of interpreting the law. Why should the owner be taxed twice over on different schedules ? And why should the amounts be......

Why Land Is So Low May In Fact Be Explained

by the com- plicated burdens of taxation. A small example has been brought to my notice. A man bought 11 acres of very rough grass that had never been used for cultivation. It......

On The Subject Of " The Oslo Breakfast," I Have

obtained from Sweden, thanks to a Swedish friend, a recipe for which several correspondents have asked. Since so much whey, an invaluable food, is wasted in England it may be of......

Somerset, Has Just Started A New Marketing Scheme Of Its

own. It has always been the home of rural crafts- men, especially of basket makers, but, like other village workers, they have sold only or chiefly to stray individuals Who......

A Certain Number Of Land-owners Are Afforesting A Good Part

of their property, partly to escape the cost of landowner. ship ; and prObably they are doing good national service. Lord Lovat, a forester of ,fame and a patriot of sense, has......