30 APRIL 1932, Page 14

It is said, not seldom, that English farmers are wanting

in enterprise. In regard to the districts where the soil is rich as in the Marshland," so called, of South Lincolnshire, or the Penland of Cambridge and Iluntingdon, or the sandier soils of North Bedford, there are no communities in the world so quick to try what is new or so bold in spending capital. On the farm of which I write, the scientific equipment is a model. To give one illustration, the thermostatic apparatus, which is self-regulating, worked so accurately that the heat in the houses never varied more than two degrees whatever the weather outside. I could find no sign of so much as a stain on the leaves of the plants in the houses.