4 MAY 1934, page 15

In Praise Of Berkshire

The late Mr. Tanner, a farming. genius, discovered here the suitability of a derelict farm (taken over by Mr. Strauss) for hops ; but Berkshire is more famous for its charm than......

A Smallholder's Success

An extraordinary tribute to the virtue of a particular bit of English soil and climate was paid incidentally last week, at a meeting of sugar beet farmers in London. Nearly five......

Why Wisbech ?

Apart from any particular genius in this smallholder, the growers of the Wisbech district have an indisputable supremacy in growing this plant (though I think the last crop I......

What Birds Like

To those who are interested in birds, anything almost about birds is interesting, their taste in food as well as their songs, flights, nests and instincts. Therefore, the......

Country Life

Good English It has been my good fortune lately to talk daily with an agricultural labourer of the old type. He is 70 and looks 60. He is no great scholar. He has spent all his......

A Partridge Preference

The game birds do not agree with the smaller wild birds ; and indeed do not choose any English food. All the part- ridges, both English and Hungarian, have an overmastering......

The Sweet O' The Year

The "sweet o' the year has come very late, but it has come with a rush. How often it happens that the sudden advance of a black or brown world into a green follows a......