12 OCTOBER 1929, Page 16

I do not know Mr. Hansen's farm, but I know

well another Berkshire farm Of about the same acreage—near Kingston

Bagpuize—where derelict farms have been retrieved by high farming,- and propose to give some further account of this venture, undertaken by Mr. Strauss, and of the scarcely credible contrasts between high farming and prairie farming that are to be found in Berkshire, one of the most various, beautiful and characteristic counties in England.

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