In this issue "The Countryman" starts a new series, "The Way by Which I Have Come", in which men and women who have made a contribution in ideas and achievement io rural advance are to describe in 'a simple way how they awoke to the need, their successes and failures and the lessons they have learnt. The series begins with Richard St. Barbe Baker, "the Man of the Trees."
The Diary of a Fruit Farmer is continued. Here is an entry of April 9: alain ball rang from the thermometer t nine p.m. last night the frost the orchards. By one am. there Were four degrees of frost and we lit up the orchard heater pots. We may have warmed the trees; we certainly sooted the neighbourhood, our smoke being reported from seven miles away! 'At $ am. the local cockerels w Growing' vigorously at our spurious dawn. "At eight am. my wife blamed me for distying the whole house.
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