Wilkt A Cow Should Yield.
A point of great interest is the steady growth in yield of the cows. For myself I had just been investigating—for a separate purpose—the history of the first co-operative move-......
An Educative Bee.
• A small and simple German book was given me recently, with the note that it was officially recommended for use throughout the elementary schools of Austria. It is a rather......
Winter Sprays.
Bishop Berkeley, that great idealistic philosopher, who interrupted his proper studies to preach the universal virtues of coal-tar products—even he was less enthusiastic on the......
Country Life
A DAIRY TRIUMPH. If anyone wishes to focus the chief problems of husbandry in England to-day he should go to Marlborough or its neigh- bourhood. Up on the neighbour downs is a......
The Wexcombe Farm.
Mr. Hosier bought a derelict property of 1,000 acres in 1922. What he paid for it I do not know, but land thereabouts has sold recently for as little as 15 an acre freehold,......
Agents In Reclamation.
The prime value of this Wiltshire experiment—or perhaps demonstration is a better word—is that it provides what every reformer has been seeking, a recipe for the worst lands.......
Poverty Bot1j.m.
The author of the new system is Mr. Hosier, of Wexcombe House, Marlborough. New though his experiment is, it is already celebrated. Mr. Hosier has done in one sort of farming......
It Is Astonishing How Husbandry, Properly Practised, May...
to land. I heard of one very remarkable and unexpected example in Belgium many years ago. A space of sand having nothing but a few fir trees was used as a fowl- run by......
The Vice Of Coddling.
It is probable that most domestic animals are too much coddled. On the most perfectly equipped farm I ever saw— it was financed by one of the Dreyfuses, near Paris—a very famous......
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