21 SEPTEMBER 1929, Page 16

Some of the land is skilfully farmed, nevertheless. The worse

and most degenerate acres are a sheep run, and in this weather would suggest Queensland prairies, if it were not for the hedgerows, each of which has swelled in height and girth during recent years. Milch cows graze the better meadows, and a certain quantum of mangolds and sweeds are still grown. Some of the farms, if not all, pay their way. Is the sheep-run the final solution here, as on those lamen- table ridges along the boundaries of Wilts and Berks, or are we to believe Sir Roland Biffen that wheat is the crop of the future and should be of the present ? * * * *