6 FEBRUARY 1932, page 15

Country- Life

THE COST OF WHEAT. In the latest of the admirable little leaflets, produced as pleasantly and seasonably as if the Research Institute were a tree, the Oxford economists make......

What Is The Position At Present ? The Loveliest Village

may be defaced by the most hideous building. If the local Connell, more highly enlightened thanothers, consults the voluntary panel of architects (Sir Guy Dawber's priceless......

A German Example.

All this means that no county can do without a regional plan ; and one of the privileges of a County Society will be to enforce its adoption by the weight of public opinion. One......

A County Society.

The County of Hertfordshire—Lamb's "happy, homely Hertfordshire "—has just formed a "County Society" which is likely perhaps to find many imitators. County pride is very strong......

A Grateful Robin.

A cock robin, in a house on the outskirts of Oxford, has been practising this winter a new form of tameness. Ile is devoted to the housekeeper, and seeks out the room where she......

Producer Or Middleman?

The Director of the Research Institute himself lays more emphasis than even Sir Horace Plunkett's Institute on the utter dependence of the farmer, especially the dairy farmer,......

An Amusing Side Issue Of This Oxford Robin's Friendship Is

its effect on the dog of the house, an Irish setter of singular beauty even in his race, which is always beautiful. He is obviously and unashamedly jealous of the robin, does......

The Orman Experiment. .

I do not think Oxfordshire has a County Society, but its inhabitants work hard in their owe defence, constructively as well as preservatively. A very practical and suggestive......