The Whitewashed Seal.
How often those whom we think to be enemies prove friends or at the worst harmless, when knowledge increases : tout connaitre c'est tout pardonncr. Dr. Collinge has proved the......
Transition In Agriculture.
Many years ago a thoughtful little book was written, by a Times correspondent, called The Transition in Agriculture:, A good deal of it was merely descriptive, but the......
Success Of Small-holders.
Pessimists on farming in England during the last . year or two seem to have turned a deaf ear and a blind eye tp the very salient success of many small-holders. Evidence of this......
This April's Frosts Have Done An Immensity Of Damage To
small fruit, peaches, plums, and pears, and to very early potatoes. One of the plants that rather surprisingly suffered greatly in appearance, though not so much in reality, was......
2,000 Small-holders.
Too few people realize how numerous the small-holdings are. Agricultural distress has been greatest in the Eastern Counties ; but it has not submerged the Cambridge small-......
" Smudges " For Fruit.
One grower of fruit whom I used to visit in the neighbour- hood of Evesham kept by his bed an alarum connected to a thermometer. As soon as the temperature fell well below......
Country Life
DEFEATING SPRING FROSTS. The recurrence in the Aprils of '27 and '28 of a succession of hard frosts and cold winds has revived interest in methods of protecting blossoms, just......
Water Versus Frost.
- Cut foliage can be saved from frost in other ways. The leaf dies and blackens solely because it cannot take up moisture, not because its tissues are torn by the actual frost.......
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