... would open the subject in other farming publications. Perhaps he has already done so. In your paper I feel that his letter speaks to the converted, mostly. The calves present one aspect only of a very big problem, which concerns all farm livestock. My ...

... small proportion of the national population Should the burglar go free, because murderers are in short supply (comparatively speaking) Anyway, living in this county, it is hard to believe that swans are really declining, though some of us wish, locally, that ...

... Emily Bronte's book, Wuthering Heights, the rock is known as Penistone Crag, and she describes it as a fairy cave. Others speak of the quaint custom as a form of betrothal, known to our Norse forefathers as the promise of Odin. Yorkshire. J. S. Ponden ...

... ionn Peel, The Farmer Sir, The fame of John Peel as a untsman is sung all over the English speak ng world, but his work as a farmer is not so well known. He farmed on a small scale in Caldbeck narish, Cumberland, where he was born n the 1 8th century ...

... Market Fiddles i Sir, The recent report concerning fiddles at wholesale markets, as claimed by a Covent Garden wholesaler speaking at a growers' conference in St. Albans, Herts, and reported by the farming press, again raises the question of ethics and ...

... wind direc tion and speed, air temperature and humidity, recent rainfall, etc., and during the actual danger season (broadly speak ing, April to September) the fire ratings are calculated each day, and the com posite result duly put up on the hazard indicator ...

... appear to work in smug, self-sealed compart ments and neither tolerance nor co-operation are displayed. This council, which speaks for the whole dairy industry producers, manufacturers of milk products, and distributors has been described as a classical ...

... that rabbit in dead ground. Except for the last few yards, the stalk is usually done blind but always up-wind. Generally speaking, the last thing a fox desires is to be seen. If, much against his will, he is forced into the open his line will be up a ...

... quoted, and I would suggest a more realistic range would be from £60 for the smaller tractor to £120 for the larger. Generally speaking cost com parisons cannot accurately measure the advantages of ownership and rental. For instance, many rental agree ments ...

... some steel units are the same size, or even larger than concrete. From the aesthetic point of view, concrete is generally speak ing just as pleasing to the eye as other materials, and in any case the majority of buildings are enclosed with asbestos or ...

... fundamental biochemistry of plants and animals. Yet this is precisely what the fertiliser industry is now doing. Personally I speak from a position of strength having run into the usual troubles after several years use of concentrated NPK, but also having ...

... ion is quite antrue so far as this establishment is con cerned and has been for the last 15 years. 1 would not presume to speak for other training centres without knowing the facts. No doubt the loneliness of the long- listance Editor (page 319) prevents ...