Country Life
A GARDEN OF EDEN. Many of us have visited that curious piece of ground at Rothamsted which has been allowed to relapse to its native state, and in its eighty or so years of......
High-speed Harvesting.
The harvest, now virtually concluded in the south and east, is certainly one of the best in the annals. High praise for it would be that it is as good as last year's. And the......
A Gameless Parish.
First, you may tramp over a thousand acres and scarcely find a game bird, though the year has been exceptionally favourable to their breeding. The great hedges over which once......
Some Of The Land Is Skilfully Farmed, Nevertheless. The...
and most degenerate acres are a sheep run, and in this weather would suggest Queensland prairies, if it were not for the hedgerows, each of which has swelled in height and girth......
New Harvesters.
The speed of harvesting in this Lincolnshire crop was due; not so much to the weather—though this has baked the grain harder than we often see it in England—but to the use of......
Thorns And Briers
One rough grass field was contained in old days by big hedges that even then had a tendency to stray. They have now almost eaten up the field. The top half is a woodland, not......
Vanishing Streams ?
Almost every parish in Southern England is suffering in some point from a drought that begins to surpass all the records ; but probably the most spectacular results are to be......
A Sahara.
Our farm critics talk sadly of the crime of letting arable land fall back to grass. When good grass succeeds to indiffer- ent grain we should not lament, but rejoice. The......
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