Country Life
THE COUNTRYMAN'S FRIEND.
It is time-that someone paid proper tribute to the County Instructor, generic and particular, in rural art and science. I find a curious beast on the bark of my young apple trees and a brown decadence in my myrobalan hedge, and write to the County Council farm. With utter promptitude a man, who is a master of his craft, hurries over, inspects, advises out of the knowledge which he carries with him, but takes away specimens of my insects and brown leaves, and worries out their inner secrets in his laboratory. One point puzzles him, and it is sent for solution to Cambridge. Within a week I know all that is to be known, and am equipped to keep my trees and hedges healthy and to save my neighbours from infection. Not less than this—I have had the' privilege of an interesting talk with a courteous and wise specialist, who means his county to be as productive as he can make it.
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