A Very Profitable Farm Has Arisen Out Of A Desert.
Though the cattle matter most and are the essence of the farm, the newer addition of the narrow mobile poultry pens most strikes the eye. They are daily moved on their eccentric......
The New Labourer.
This sort of farming has incidentally emancipated the agricultural labourer. Each man has his own unit, whether of cows or hens, shares to some extent in profits, and what is......
Country Life
Two DOWN PICTURES. A group of people, some practically, some theoretically concerned with farming, stood last week on the Wiltshire Downs looking "on this picture and on that."......
• * A Dowsers' Society.
An attempt is being made to form a society of what is called in France Radiesthesie, one aspect of which we call water-divining. Such a society exists in France, Italy, Spain......
There Is No Question That Real National Work Has Been
done at Wexcombe and thereabouts in Wiltshire. "We are all shameless mimics," said one of the group, with gusto. On his rough farm an old Rolls-Royce was doing a (good part of......
The Golden Foot.
"This picture," consisting of some 2,000 acres of upper Down, is of an ex-desert flourishing as the rose. A profitable formula of reclamation has been discovered and invented by......
Again, It Is Almost Ludicrous To See Once Expensive Cars—
Rolls-Royces, Buicks, Vauxhalls and what not—careering over the Downs and doing most of the hard transport work. Some have the spikes of an ample hay sweep fixed to their fronts......
More Animal Friendships.
One of the commoner friendships between animals of very different species appears to exist between dog or cat and the crow family. I have known of several, and many have been......
Spring's Date.
Almost every countryman in England deplores an early spring—and rejoices in if. Very few agree whether it is in fact early or late. And indeed the signs are contra- dictory. The......
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