COUNTRY LIFE
" The First„ " The First "—a title that still maintains, ins, its supremacy-7. will see most of the stubbles clear of stooks, and standing corn will be a very rare appearance indeed; For myself I cannot remember a season when the cutting of the corn made so little change in the scenery ; and the reason is that the stubbles kept almost as deep a colour as the ears ; and the ground was SO hard that immediate ploughing was too difficult to attempt. The harvest has been one of the quickest on the records ; and the ease of the process has made up for the comparative lightness of some of the crops. Many oat-fields yielded very heavily, especially in the West and-North, but the average of all grains in yield is held to be rather lower than was hoped. So too is the crop of partridges. In general the coveys, though numerous, have dwindled to a very few birds.
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