19 JANUARY 1929, page 15

Just Been Achieved By One Of Our Great Firms. The

Soya bean which is remarkable for the amount of oil it contains, was successfully grown in Berkshire during the year and prodirced a fair amount of ripened seed. Even if......

A Plant Of Mystery.

The wealth that some small discovery in botany may confer on a community has always stirred the historical imagination ' from the date of the cultivation of barley and rice, and......

A Cardinal Secret.

All manner of quaint technical points about grass have ,been already discovered.- Two are emphasized by one of the -greatest authorities in the United States. One is that no......

No People In The World Know So Much About Good

grass, especially for lawns, as the English ; and, since Dr. Stapledon is perhaps the greatest of realists and specialists, one must add the Welsh. The Americans, whose golfers......

A Gasss Age.

This new scheme of research happens to coincide with a really astonishing number of experiments in the cultivation and investigation of all sorts of grasses, by all sorts of......

Handsomely In England. One Of These Is Cultivation Under...

A surprising vote of confidence in glass has just been passed by one of our more progressive farming institutes- Oaklands, near St. Albans. Glass is multiplying so fast in the......

.mammals (about Which The Oxford Biologists Are Seeking...

me from Mount St. Eloi, a place some of us knew very well during the War. .". In this village in the north of France," writes W. C. H., " we have this year a plague of......

Country Life

GOLF AND RESEARCH. IT is the duty of every golfer to offer to help his Union in the new and delightful scheme for research on which many small clubs are to vote immediately, and......