In Cornwall, a county of family farms, prosperity has never
left the land. The land was full of pleasant surprises, which may be indicated though there is no space' to discuss them. A single farmer near Newquay is reclaiming from very barren heath and down about 200 acres. He is able to do this economically thanks to modern transport and the neighbour- hood of the right sort of sand. His farm gives the best possible evidence of those local discoveries in reclamation which were written of here twelve months ago. 'A few tons of sand (as the modern lorry reckons weight) following the plough create a really productive soil, which after a year or two of grasses and clovers may be again put under the plough and become a filth. This last step is now being taken on some of the reclaimed land. The local people have now curiously precise knowledge of the value of the sands from this beach and that. Doubtless the proportion of lime supplied by the dust of sea-shells determines the carat of these golden sands-
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