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The farmer has, of course, his compensations. Seldom, if ever,

has poultry paid so well as in recent months, or eggs been so dear. The season has been marvellously favourable to many crops. The beet has a sugar content never before approached in England, though some of the East Anglian crops were light, and it has been the salvation of some farms in other parts of England. Truckloads of beets are now almost as common a sight along the railways as in Northern France. The great losses in Eastern England are in potatoes and in grain, especially barley which ought to have been worth nearly twice what it actually fetched.