Flood. Water And Land Use
We are indignant with the weather for the recent floods, but the fault, dear Brutus, lies not in the clouds but in ourselves. Floods are a symptom, not-of excess water, but of......
Country Life
I WATCHED a man ploughing very stiff and sodden land with a heavy tractor. A light Ferguson tractor would obviousry have been by far the better implement against packing, but......
Six—janus Asks If The Press Chiefs Ever Heard Why Aristides
was ostracised. This is loose thinking, as in the journals, including the Spectator, which habitually treat King Canute as a - vain fool, instead of one who gave his courtiers a......
“ Trash-farming "
In the United States, where bitter experience of "mining" out fertility has 'taught a belated frisdom, it is in the best farming areas that our mould-board plough has become......
Shaw's Letters
SIR,—With the authority of the Public Trustee, and as the principal publishers of Bernard Shaw's works in Great Britain, we are contem- plating, some time during the next live......
Time-spans
Str,—My grandfather was born in 1795, and died in 1868. I was born in 1862, and remember him quite well. A span of 156 years.......
The. Press And Royalty
Sia,—I am glad that Janus has directed attention to the ridiculous lengths to which the publishing of photographs of the Royal Family is going. A short unit ,ago at the cinema I......
I Have Planted Not Far Short Of A Hundred Trees
in my 'garden and its surround, so that I did not relish having to fell one of the biggest and finest. This was a balsam poplar, the nearest to the house of a line of them......
The Soil Is The Secret
But this is by no - means the whole of the story. Soil conditions range from the extremes of good and evil. If the latter, soil is like dust or cement ; if the former, like a......
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