26 OCTOBER 1934, page 16

Country Life

The Farmer's Career An old question is being asked of me with increasing fre- quency, and doubtless more often of other people with more knowledge. Is there an opening in......

The Glass Age

Horticulture and husbandry are different pursuits ; but cultivation under glass begins to impinge on to open field. The value of the crops grown under glass in the Lea Valley is......

Capital Needs

The farming aspirants are almost exclusively male, and it must be said at once that it is next door to impossible to succeed without a certain capital. This has always been......

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Unemployed Afforesters Further progress has been made with the scheme for employing 20,000 men (such is Mr. Baske Baker's ideal) in the work of afforesting our wasted acres,......

A Tree Calendar It Is Much To Be Hoped That

" The Men of the Trees," who do quite invaluable work in cultivating a " tree sense " in the community, are not becoming infected with the quite excessive rage for conifers that......

The Heron's Enemies A Battle (of Which Details Are Reported

in the excellent Bird Notes and News of the R.S.P.B.) has been proceeding over the heron, the biggest and most pictorial of all British birds ; and a census of its nests has......

* * Trees Of The Nations These Men Of The

Trees have also made arrangements for their great exhibition of tree.pictures at Grosvenor House from November 1st for a month. Over thirty countries are exhibiting pictures......