Feo Our Own London, Aug. 8
Antivivisestionists must be discouraged to learn that, despite their efforts, 915,801 experiments fon living animals were performed fu 1928, an increase of 22,589 on the previous year, Of the 14,976 operations under" an anesthetic, G628 were performed under a Heence "which requires "that the animal must be kept under an anesthetic during the whole of the experiment and must, if the pain likely to continue after the effect of the anssthetic has ceased, or if any serious injury has been in-fioted on the animal, be killed before it recovers from the influence the ansathetic," In the other 8,348 cases, presumably pain to the animals was involved. Nearly 189,000 experiments were perform ed. for Government. departments fond public health authorities, and becoming more congested every' day. However,. it seems that we hero more fortunate in this respect than Berlin, The Chief of the Ber-
Jin Police, who was recently over ere, studying trafic control, de-[cared on his return to Berlin' that hho was amazed at the smoothness with which the traffic in the coun try' was controlled. He thought that this was due to the admirable of the motorists them-
Who were ready. to ¢0- operate with the police to the fullest extent and not lose their tempfers when the traffic was held up. What particularly pleased him was that drivers did not blow their horns merely to exhibit their Fannoyance on such occasions, as is the custom in most of the other European capitals.
The Haig Memorial outcry over the various! the other hand, the area under roots: has slightly increased by some 4 per cent. and the land under sugar beet has increased by 31 per cent. at 229,000 acres. This i the highest ever recorded for this particular crop. As regards live J sock, the figures also show a deme. We have now only 5,948,000 cattle 16,108,400 sheep and 2,364,500 Tigs. This represents about two or three months food supply for the! whole population.
Tt is surprising however, to. realize what a large proportion of the land in the country is still available to farmers. Out of 37 million acres, over 30] rullion are shown to be used for one agricultural purpose or another! and yet a tour through England to-ay gives one the impression that at least one-third of the available space must be devoted to gardens, factory and house-sites, roads. and other impediments of urban as oposed to rural life,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.