2 MAY 1931, page 14

Baroddetric Fallacies

We have enjoyed, so to say, a term of weather that should for ever dissipate the popular fallacy that a high glass means fair weather. The hands pointed to 29.4 and it rained......

A Village Cobbett.

A smallholder harrowing one of his two fields was glad to stop and talk. What he said seemed to me to add suggestive detail to the tale of present tendencies on the land. "I'm......

Nor Producer Can Look Through The Other's Eyes. It May

be so on occasion ; but an ingenious and persuasive poster just brought out by the distributors in favour of pure milk gives a most admirable pointer to the essential unity of......

Bearded Wheat.

Now this experience indicates that the surrender of arable land is not due only to the low price of wheat. A smallholder wants the wheat for his poultry ; and this one wanted......

Milk Consumption Is Actually Increasing At The Moment— At...

rate in some districts—owing to the improvement in apparatus, especially perhaps in containers that are destroyed after use. In my own district the great difficulty experienced......

The Loveliest Valleys.

On the often discussed question, which is the loveliest district in England, I have more than once put in a claim for the Teme valley near the junction of Worcestershire and......

Wanted: County Patriotism.

The great need of the moment is a multiplication of County branches of the C.P.R.E. ; and, personally, I rejoice to see signs of an amalgamation with the Rural Community......

Intelligence In Tits.

A story that seems to be a real pointer to the nature of the intelligence of birds is in circulation. It appeared, I believe, first in the Shooting Times ; and of the facts......

Country Life

THE CLERGY AS WATCHERS. A year of success, for which every English patriot should be grateful, has been concluded by the Council for the Preserva- tion of Rural England, whose......