Farming Memoirs of a West Country Yeoman Thirty Years Farming on the Clifton Park System

Abstract

ANYONE who knows an English village well knows that there is usually someone with a gift for telling a story, developed perhaps in the friendly atmosphere of the 'farmers ordinary', or even in the alehouse or in the camaraderie of farm work. Some combine this with another gift, the ability to put the story into writing. In recent years there have been many discoveries of these talented people, and they have been encouraged to write down what they have to say. Messrs. Faber and Faber have been particularly successful in finding some of these men and they have recently issued several books, each a first effort, by a farmer whose story would otherwise never have got beyond his own village.

Farming Memoirs of a West Country Yeoman

By S. G. Kendall. Pp. 247. (London: Faber and Faber, Ltd., 1944.) 12s. 6d. net.

Thirty Years Farming on the Clifton Park System

How to Supply Humus, Texture and Fertility by the aid of Deep-Rooting Grasses. By William Lamin. Pp. 110 + 3 plates. (London: Faber and Faber, Ltd., 1944.) 7s. 6d. net.