18 NOVEMBER 1932, page 12

Why Not Flax ?

A few weeks ago blue flax flowers were still to be seen in some Hertfordshire fields. They were seedlings from a mixed crop of the year before. It is likely that we shall hear......

Rural Cards And Calendars.

In Britain we must anticipate Christmas by an egregious margin, if for no other reason, because the Empire is so far-flung. So Christmas cards and diaries are already pro-;......

Intelligent Birds.

Two moving stories of the affection and intelligence of birds are told in a paper published by the enterprising Women's Institute Federation of Norfolk. In each ease birds......

Country Life

OXFORD RESEARCH. A very distinctive note in. the chronicling of our husbandry, of the production of our acres, has been struck by the pamphle- teers who have recorded the......

Plough V. Grass.

What will most surprise the less technical student is that in no group of the 205 dairy farms investigated did the excess of income over expenditure fall below 12 16s. an acre ;......

We Are Apt To Be Unenterprising In The Encouragement Of

out-of-the-way crops and in the manufacture of out-of-the. way foods and products. Flax factories, farina factories and alcohol factories (both these for the utilization of the......

The Latest Leaflet—by Mr. F. J. Prewett—is One Of The

more valuable, if farmers will accept figures that suggest the making of a profit. Now we all know the theory of the Danes and many other Scandinavians that arable land will......

Winter Visrrons.

Into the English landscape that now passes rapidly from colour to form, from golden domes to filigree patterns, an immense horde of continental pigeons begin to enter. They may......