3 MARCH 1928, page 14

Sir Horace Plunkett, The Greatest Of The Pioneers, Who...

co-operation completely resuscitated Irish agricul- ture, and all who are of his school cannot but regard such an attitude as retrograde and of less use to •the farmer than the......

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UNIVERSITY CO-OPERATION. The two UniVersities of Criford and Canibridge never entered into a better form of co-operation than when they agreed to share farming science between......

In Oxfordshire I Was Advised To Drive Along A Road

where I should see farms -left utterly derelict, already returning to thorns• and briars, almost alongside a farm on which a small fortune had been spent, and cultivation was......

Country Life

TAILLESS PIGEONS. Many of those who hate the pigeon shooting at-Monte Carlo —about which many questions are asked-7-wonder why the , birds are robbed of their tails before being......

The N.f.u. Again. -

It is deeply regretted by many-of those interested in the land that the National- Farmers' Union has definitely come out egainst - Aile-agalinciple of co-operation. In their......

* * * * Wicene Farmers Loan.

A very persistent effort has been made by the School of Agriculture at Oxford to discover, -so far as-may be,..exactly why farming has ceased to pay ; and one very important......

English Birds In India.

• Some paragraphs on bird thigration,and on the introduction, of goldfinches into Australia, have brought letters from readers of the Spectator in various districts of Arilea......

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The point maY perhaps be driven home - by a personal experience:" Again and again I have found that the successful farmer of a district has been the best engineer. The man who......

One Of The Very Oldest Of Country Sayings Is That

" March is the month that blooms the whirs ; and the whins, the furze, the gorse, is already in very gorgeous bloom on Midland commons. On one popular golf links you may.......