OUR ENGLISH HARVEST.
For the second time this year a tour of East Anglian harvest fields has been arranged by the Norfolk Farmers' Union, in order to prove and preach the excellence of English barley. Does the Union know that it is doing exactly what a King of Egypt did at the beginning of historical time ? He made a journey as a propagandist for malting barley, and was blessed as the greatest benefactor of his country on the records. If anyone is inclined to believe that English farmers do not know their jobs, or that English acres cannot grow the highest quality of grain, let him drive from, say, Yarmouth to King's Lynn, and, as Richard Jefferies advised, always get over a stile or go through a gate if it leads to a barley field. I have made tours of crops in many parts of the world—in America, Australia, and half-a-dozen European countries ; but none anywhere have ever seemed to me quite so good to look at scenically or technically as the harvest fields of East Anglia in a good year. And this year promises
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