If You Have Never Heard Of The Iceni Estate And
the remarkable experiments in land-regeneration carried on there since 1932, I think sixpence on I Believe by a Farmer (R. G. M. Wilson, 285 Milton Road, Cambridge) would be......
Wholemeal Loaf .
When T. first asked my baker, the most courteous of men, for the wholemeal loaf he replied, " Ah, but I doubt if you'll like it," and went on to relate stories of other......
In The Garden
It seems to me that we cannot hammer too much at the serious question of vegetable-prices. The local price for parsnips is fifteen shillings per cwt., the London price......
Basket - Making
During the last war the Dutch were able to seize a great part of the osier- and basket-trade of this country, and keep it. Later the osier-trade had to meet competition from the......
A Sad History"
Sia,—" Janus," in his foot-note to my letter of the r6th (in which I clearly said that it was the coroner's report and not Mrs. Woolf's action which I criticised) states that,......
Wild Asparagus
Sia,—" Your admirable H. E. Bates" (if a landowner may endorse the characterisation of the Editor of The Countryman) is a little vague about asparagus officinalis, the wild......
Classical Premiers
Sia,—Sir Richard Livingstone in your May 9th issue, in referring to those Premiers whose classical attainments did not, se judice, entitle them to the name of scholar, states......
The Virtues Of Mastication
Snt,—In Macaulay's essay on the Athenian Orators he writes: "Rum- ford, it is said, proposed to the Elector of Bavaria a scheme for feed- ing his soldiers at a much clieaper......
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