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CHEMICAL STRAW. By the courtesy of Lord Iveagh, who was one of the " authors and begetters " of the discovery, a number of farmers were shown on a Norfolk estate the whole......
Small Holders.
A good many small holders, dairymen, and poultry keepers have done fairly well ; but, again, no general conclusion can be drawn. It was distressing, for example, to find—on a......
Research In Grass.
On the list of popular plants grass counts high in the list, especially in a game-playing community. And I hear that a considerable extension of the scientific study of what may......
Grey Squirrels Again.
An extraordinary instance of the animosities of the grey squirrel reaches me from an observer in Chichester. A grey squirrel was observed storing nuts in a hollow tree near the......
Unwasted Waste.
An American professor on the West Coast has been urging that farm waste will be the ultimate source of the world's wealth. In The chemical conversion of farm waste," he sees the......
Country Life
A FARMERS' QUESTIONNAIRE. An account is about to be issued from the Oxford agricul- tural economists concerning the many thousand questions that they sent out to agents, farmers......
Doubtless The Annual Crops Will In The Final Analysis Prove
the world's greatest and most permanent source of wealth, though at present the waste is even greater than the waste of trees. To compare small things with great, most of us......
* Of Many Of The Benefits Conferred By Exceptional Weather,
none has been more enjoyed in the country than the continual harvest of mushrooms. Even hard frosts have not arrested the crop. Oxfordshire villagers were gathering basketsful......
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