Country Life •
flora IN &mem Many critics have noted that the depression in farming teems to have enhanced the excellence of agricultural shows. The point might be made this year, for the early shows of this reason have been particularly brilliant. But the truth is that a real revival in stock, as a farmer's proposition, has to be chronicled. It seems at the moment too much to hope that the grain-farmer or potato-farmer, or, indeed, the small fruit- farmer, will be assured a constant and a remunerative price for what he grows. English consumers have been refusing to buy good English potatoes at a a ton when they willingly raid 116 a ton for imported potatoes. Again, it does not pay to grow wheat at the world's price unless the yield is altogether abnormal. As to small fruit, I have made some particular inquiries ; and the results are curious.
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