20 APRIL 1934, Page 16

Birds and Farms It may do farmers all over the

world good to know that this headquarters of agricultural science is a paradise for birds. I have seen there rare hawks, watched game birds, both pheas- ant and partridge, rise from the experimental plots, and found the nests of, for example, most of the warblers and the red shrike. It is pleasant to think of these plots, that co-operate most fruitfully in the real progress of the world, lying snug in most English serenity almost alongside an Elizabethan house, with its park and glorious trees : beauty is truth, truth beauty.