Most of the country is as lovely as ever ;
and I had almost said as prosperous. In a very important particular even the motor revolution, with its trail of slime—if one may compare the quickest with the slowest—lends some aid in the return to prosperity. Examples may be quoted from each of the three counties referred to above. Two years ago or more an agricultural organizer in Suffolk told me that 50 per cent, of the soil of the county was suffering from want of lime or chalk. Since then fairly wide areas have been limed, and it is dis- covered that the motor lorry enables this necessary work to be done at a greatly cheaper rate than ever before. As to the value of liming experiments, what I saw demonstrated a 80 per cent., even a 50 per cent, increase on yield ; and on an older plot the beneficial results of liming as much as thirteen years ago are still obvious even at a glance. On other plots the comparative yields, due to nitro-lime, are really astonish- ing. Agriculture was never so ready for a revival.
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