4 JUNE 1921, Page 3

Lord Lee of Farcham has conferred another benefit upon the

nation by the munificent gift of about 1,300 acres of farms and woodland in the neighbourhood of Chequers. All the conditions of the gift are handsome. The farms are to be handed over to the Ministry of Agriculture as going concerns with all their crops, stook, and equipment. There will not be a penny to pay, and the Ministry in accepting the gift proposes to use the farms for demonstration. They will exhibit the growth of improved cereals and fodder crops, and the cultivation of grass-land for the intensive breeding of stock.