30 DECEMBER 1932, page 13

The Delicate Art Of Canning Has Gone Ahead So Fast

within Britain that our producers have not yet caught up with the demand. We talk of over-production and forget the examples of under-production. Asparagus is one of the......

It May Almost Be Said That There Is Room Only

for the best and worst farming. Imaginative farmers who can experiment and spend on a considerable scale can make farming pay and the family farmer who scratches on as best he......

Loxnos Gur-ls.

A novelist of some fame and high accomplishment puts to me a query in natural history. It seems that in a historic novel of the century he alluded to the gulls frequenting......

It May Distress The Picturesque School To Compare The...

milking of a herd of cows with the old picture of man or maid, squatted on a three-legged stool with head thrust against the flank of the cow, rhythmically and with soft and......

New Bird Habits.

Birds of many sorts learn new things, adapt new habits : I heard this year bitter complaints from an owner of Scottish moors that the black-backed—not this time the black-headed......

Country Life

THE MILKER'S ROBOT. Farming is, of course, depressed ; and m my farmers are to all intents and purposes bankrupt. More than this : mortgages on their land are of small value......

A Very Practical Review Of The Subject Has Been Written

by Mr. J. K. Thompson (of the admirable Agricultural Institute at Kirton in Lincolnshire) and contributor to the Estate Magazine. Canners and producers have different interests......