—AND GRAIN.
On the subject of British products, a tour was taken this week, under the Norfolk branch of the National Farmers' Union, to see some of the crops, especially barley crops, of the Eastern Counties. The county, long famous for its barleys, is likely to excel itself ; and if there is anyone who nurses the superstition that these Norfolk barleys are excelled by over. seas barley, he is wrong. Personally, I believe that the new drying processes—for grain, for hay, for sugar beet—novt being tried out at Eynsham and elsewhere, will in the sequel increase the reputation of all English grains. But Norfolk barleys need no special treatment ; and how very beautiful the level sheen of the barleys looked on a day of sun and wind A road journey from Norwich to King's Lynn is a liberal education in grain farming.
W. BEACH THOMAS.
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