Hunt puppy shows are over and a new season is about to open. The harvest, at one time considered to be a matter of some three weeks, when everything would be cut and, carried, has lengthened considerably, and if rain continues may be far from the good one hoped for. As highly respected yeoman farmer remarked to the writer at the Essex Hunt puppy show, "the men think it's going to be easy money this reason and quickly earned, but I doubt it, If the rain comes now we may take quite a time," Unfortunately his forcerist turned out to be right. Most farmers in the Eastern counties had just begun to cut when the drought stopped. Down came the rain and bag continued intermittently since. T've cut but I can't carry it" is the fre quent reply to a.question as toa farmer's doings. The writer motored some 70 miles not long since through 4 part of Essex and noted everywhere hardly a field uneut—some cut nearly a month, yet almost all still uncarried, Hunting has got on its logs again, securely, and the danger of its extinction is now unthinkable. Bow people realize to what a dangerous Pi many hunts were reduced dus ing and immediately after the Great ts In many packs hounds were duced to a vanishing point and in 1919 money at one time could hardly find hounds to buy, 60 searce had they become. Locally the harvest should be all carried in another fortnight, and in spite of Chinese troubles and the malignity of Chine exe studerite Mr. John Swire and Colonel Seymour Gosling, Ko, Joint masters of the Essex Hounds. hope to be soon giving the cubs May the fates be propitious and the boycott not be extended to cover Puper-hunting and the Shanghai Hounds, is the fervent wish of all old "China hands."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.