29 MARCH 1935, page 15

Cowhair And Mortar

One of our most learned agriculturists writes in support of the- conclusion of the observant Herefordshire workman whose views on Tudor plaster I quoted the other day. He found......

March Cubs

In three hunts last week the day's sport was interrupted by the appearance of a vixen followed by her cubs. The experi- ence in the Oakley country was reported in The Times. The......

Country Life

"Beds . "' b ecause .'it provides the best seed beds is ,a standard garden - jest. The biggest smallholding experiment ever undertaken flat fields that lie to the west of the......

Clean Apples

Not one, but many retired officers of both the army and navy, took up fruit farming after the War ; and some of them have made fame in the new pursuit. I may perhaps be allowed......

Now When Those Smallholdings Were Made And Equipped It Was .

my fortune to go down again and again to see them and report on their nature and progress. The work was very well done by the Ministry of Agriculture and the architects built......

Group Settlement

This new scheme of " group settlement " may be said to have three promoters': the MinistrY of Agriculture who suggested and encouraged it ; the Carnegie Truit which is giving a......

A Great Little Celandine

No spring flower is brighter with the sense of the season than WordsWorth's friend, the lesser celandine (not the greater which is carved on his memorial). But, pace Wordsworth,......

Dutch Lights

• ' it - will probably happen at Potton as at Holbeach, Preston, Blackpool, and in Cornwall, that as times go on the more successful men will 'build glass houses but in the......