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A Wordabout The Site Itself. Evesham Is The Most Proper

place of pilgrimage for the land-lover in England. You cannot point to any very special quality of soil (as you can in South Lincolnshire) or indeed of climate. Lisa clay is......

Country Life

The Open Air Secluded in a fold of the Avon, at the edge of an ancient and lovely village street, flourishes a homestead that is also a college, though this last word fits it......

One Technical Achievement On The Little Farm Is Worth...

When the needs of the engineering and vegetable department are satisfied, only fourteen acres are left for the dairy cows. Therefore the intensive system was compulsory. The......

The Avoncroft Farm Supports Itself, Though Some Of It Is

given up to research and all of it to education ; but it cannot, of course, pay for the pupils and they, of course, cannot pay for themselves. The Ministry of Agriculture and......

The Glory Of An English Spring—in Spite Of The Liquid

amari : the frost and east wind—has seldom been more inspiring. Linnaeus would have been on his knees to the gorse on the commons. George Meredith would have justified his loud......

A Muss Rat Crime.

Give a dog a bad name—. The musk rat which is now in the index &verge/arias and may not be imported or cultivated, is accused of eating fish and spoiling fisheries. It is......

Those Most Unlikely People, Men Of Letters And Students Of

literature, would perhaps profit if they could see their subject through the eyes of these labourers' sons. Their literary training is founded on the soil. They approach poetry......

It Is A Question Whether We Are Not Damaging The

pheasant. which bad become almost English, by the new importations and product of game farms. The country is full of curious hybrids, difficult to distinguish ; and it is, I......

These Young Men, Racy Of The Soil From Birth, Come

from bumble homes and often rise to high distinction. One of them is now a professor of agricultural economies ; another manager of the most famous farm in England. Desertion of......