23 FEBRUARY 1934, page 16

Tree Architecture Now When There Is Light Up To Sik

o'clock in the evening, and especially in a spell of clear and still weather such as the present, the architecture of the trees can be seen at its best. Just for a few weeks in......

Land Settlement

A persistent high rate of unemployment and a. falling export trade have led to a general conviction that the land is not at present populated and used to the fullest advantage.......

Down Sheep Shepherding Is One Of The Oldest Arts Of

civilized man. The sheep has fed him and clothed him from the time, in northern latitudes, when he first forsook his caves. And England, more than any other European country, is......

Country Life

Dry Farming February Fill-Dyke, with only another week to go, promises to be one of the dryest months on record. Yet usually it is one of the consistently wet months of the......

The Most Unfortunate Kindness That Can Be Done To A

small- holder at his setting out...is to burden him with one penny of avoidable debt. He ne eds, for the first few years, to be able to put back into his land as much as......

This Sheep-folding Is Expensive Of Labour, Say, One...

a flock of 150 ewes, with help at lambing. Today, wben- ever we cannot apply a machine to do four men's work, the. men, and their craft, go. We cannot mechanize sheep- folding,......