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OBJECTS, animal vegetable or mineral, hurtling through "space In all directions are all very well but how


suddenly we crash to earth when we realise jtist howjmuch a simple thing like the weather can affect that most Import­ ant of all things, our food supply.


I t is doubtful if the moon will yield us vaist supplies of


wheat or beef so we must remain content with the produce . from our fanns and turn to the relatively mundane: acti­ vity of farming if we are to do anything about the large pro­ portion of the world’s .population which still does not. re­ ceive an adequate diet.


Dragging our attention


away from Sputniks to ^uds Is not so easily done but after all the bill for the week;-end shopping Is of more direct concern to each one of us than occasional bleeps from buter space.


These thoughts were In­


spired by a recent visit to the farm of Tom Field and the realisation that potatoes j may be scarce early next year II Tom’s experience turns out to be as general as the calcula­ tions of the Ministry of Agri­ culture seem to Indicate.


Earlier in the year he! had


been pleased with the 10 acres he vras growing “to give fne a little spending money,” as he used to say. ■


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' 945 BLIGHT STRIKES But at that time he didn’t


know how damp the summer was going to be. Blight struck his crop, as It did on so many farms, and 'his yield will be well below average.


| ^he Ministry have made


their first, and very rough, estimate of total potato!pro­ duction for the United King­ dom, and this shows big dnp compared to last yiear, brnging the total crop|con- sicerably lower even than In 1955—which resulted Ini the still freshly-remembered Shor­ tage In the spring of 1956


It Is too early yet for accu­


rate forecasts, however, Tom on|y finished lifting his crop a (fortnight ago, and reports have to come in from all parts of the country]


| The Potato Marketing Boaixf


are working on their own! esti­ mate of how much will be aviilable for sale, and when they make an announcement the future will be more cer­ tain.


Modern development^ In apkaglng potatoes may not helpful if, a shortage deve- Mbst packers grade the


atoes which they put Into polythene bags, and they


(fee that Wastage—of the lalls” rejected—Is higher .n for the more normal


mi dthod of selling. SMALL TUBERS ‘his Is not the only factor po iHlon


llklely to affect supplies to the shpps; according to the Mlnls- of Agriculture, the pro- of


trj small


sei (med more us iiial.


pa ised, and autumn Is a j time assessing the 'success of |


an 1 summer foif


th4 year’s efforts. OUR COUNTRYSIDE


O t . one thmg I am .certain, there has never been spch a


scarcity of holly and hawfhom bei rles than .at the present, season. Throughout Bowland ami over the vast majority of Ribblesdale trees are bare. I The havthom,


in particular. Is


bai ren, and the holly everywhere h a i few of the familiar blood- rec fruits.


l i t During the past three weeks I ' ft. ’'iRi


h a 'e travelled the lanes and field palhs in both valleys and [wher- evfr 'hawthorn and holly!trees we 'e to be found the absence of bei ries has been very noticeable.


■i’hls, as usual, has brought


co im en t from some coimtry- pepple who still malntalnj tha t this can be taken to imply that wej shall have a mild winter.


Of course, time alonO can


prove this and we drall not have loi g to wait before we ikhow whether this is just another “ old wives’ tale."


! BIRD MOVEMENT j


. The scarcity of hips, haws and ho ly has already had pro- no maed effect on bird, move­ ment. The redwing andlfield- faie, winter visitors from the far nrath and usually very common in our - park and pastures, are now n o t'to be seen in any great numbers.


C onsiderable flocks' were seen


five or six weeks ago just above Waldlngton, Now only I odd


blrcs are encountered. Even whi n you pay a visit to Cross- hilU,' where there Is an abund- anc5 of hawthorns, you will sel­ dom see either’ redwing or field- fan ■.


The hawfinches too quickly left


om district, for they saw no rea » n to stay with su c h , a scarcity of haws.


And so we find tha t the


absence" of fruit has great dis­ advantage specially for the ornithologist who will visit‘these p lax s in order .to watch for ithe wir.ter visitor.


The waxwing also, iwhen it coi descends to pay us a caU, Is


usually attracted by the berries, but now such a visit, as far as


this year is concerned, is very remote.


i ;This Is unfortunate as several


have been .seen in .the P re to n area and several local watchers have b e n hopefully on ,the alert in and around Clitheroe.


i PLENTY OF INTEREST Although the countryside has


a t this time of the year a quiet, u n e v e n t f u l atmosphere, ithe naturalist iwlll find pleflty of iiiteret.


; , Usually a rare visitor may be


seen by the river as .the small packs , of wild duck or waders r e t for a 'few days as they journey south.


Already a green sandpiper has


been seen by Ribble by' a friend who spends much time in these pleasant surroundings.


Rivers, unless they are pol­


luted, are attractive to most creatures a t all seasons’and even the long experienced naturalist cannot say what a walk will reveal.


You go, out one day and the


scene 1$ deserted—all wild. Me appeals to have vanished. Then a day later you get the surprise of your life as you spot a rmdty.


That I- suppose is what makes


the study o f wild life so inter­ esting and, exciting. You can never say with , certainty wdiat is just round the comer. '


PLEASANT TIMES Speaking of 'the river always


brings to mind .the pleasant times I ( have • spent watching the dipper. If, Is well distributed on


all our .waterways and must surely be classed as the hardiest of creatures frequenting .these' parts.


I Just noW, If you wait any­


where by; Ribble or Hodder, especially where the, water Is not too deep and pass 'over a rocky bed, the chances are that you will see .this active and restless bird.


tubers relaxed is,


hliher this year than usual. 'Vhen I saw him, Tom Field


|than


.The urgency of spring farm work has


His cows had their first bite


of kale last' week. The grass had been growing so well at the end of the summer that there was plenty to spare right through October.


But Tom tells me that Octo­


ber grass Is not the same In feeding value, even If It Is as young as spring grass, and he has to be careful that the milk yield of his newly-calved


. cows Is not depressed by a diet that contains too little really nourishing food.


Like most of J our dairy


farmers, Tom Is worried about milk. It seems to accumulate trouble. Everyone knows there Is a subsidy paid on milk but not, as they say; “ just like that.”


RISING COSTS The subsidy Is paid for a


certain amount and no more. But because of rising costs of production farmers have been trying to cut their losses by producing more milk more economically.


As soon as they do that the


subsidy Is spread further, and thinner. And so with the drop In price farmers have to try to produce more and so the vicious circle goes on.


Now it would appear, some


farmers are just not willing to keep fighting the spiral, for the latest figures show that there will be fewer new mil­ kers coming Into the national dairy herd this year than last.


Some of that good grass


which Is being grown to carry a bigger herd will very likely be made available for the small flock! of breeding ewes on which so many farmers are hoping to make a little next year.


We will most certainly not


be pouring fat lambs down the drains but it may be the be­ ginning of a morC moderate supply of milk. And since no cow yet bred will give . the same amount of milk all the year round. It Is even possible that within a few years there may be times when demand will exceed supply.


Then, no doubt, just because


human nature Is what It Is, we will complain because there Isn’t enough and will start Importing it from some neighbouring nations.


No-one will remember then


that today farmers are going out of dairying because people don’t want all they produce.


NOVEL EXCUSE In spite of his plea tha t mice


had eaten ,the excise licence on ■his taotor^jycie, a farm worker a t Taverham, Norfolk, was fined £1 fpr not displaying it.


, i hy DEIliEK tacCULtOeU . ■ - '|. i,> f Uncle Mao’, of*the.:B.D-C.).; :-' •. .....


L IK E mfiny others, lihave boen reading the’ ekplol^g' of c ip t i fn ' Hugh C(rtk, a ^ l n g offlier of the'Bbifal A r t i l l e r J'/Dqjo’f,


Woolwiohi who hag shown Such gresA IhllUitlTO 'tmi' enterprise lii feeding hig flock of IdSpo tbldlers and < WJU'.c:s' th a t Wodtflch


has captured the close! attention of the p u n d i t s of the Anny Catering jCorps Itself., j . ■ Army fpod, and methods of'cooUng It, which play such a grwt part in the success or ptherwlse of bulk messing, has pfopessed


most coUMerably since I was a young private soldier in the First World W ir.


. In FVance, on active, service, I


suppose we could not e x p ^ more than the ample daily round, if and when | the rations came up to the front-line trench^..


Bully b a f , all the tlihe, of


course, “ dw ” biscuits M d plum and apple! jam, “ blue! moon" bacon dixie tea, and a fairly revolting stew, just aboht com­ pleted the entire menu,j


To me, one of the worst as­


pects was ;hat our own Mnsonal mess tins load tq serve i.me.dual purpose, t i a t of recept&e fo r stew and ea, and, also for per­ forming oiir Ecsnity ablutions.


And, by the, way, ve .'were


. living and fighting on a flat pay rate of a bob a day in the 1914- 18 war. 1


FEEDING LIKE FARMERS


gR IT ISH farmers eat iv ell as a rule—ahd why not?—but I


doubt if they, do thCmselveS better, let alone half so well, as Captain (k ok’s merry gunners at Woolwich.


Let credit also be given to the


Army Coi ncll, who allow an extra 6d. a, day to supplement each man',; normal rations.


That ad is up to £30 a day,


joints and vegetables, sweets.


and becauje of . a 10 per cent. N.A.A.F.I. discount on bulk buy­ ing, another £21 is ayailable, which explains why there Is a dally mesi choice ranging from roast chicken to a vol au vent, steaks, five kinds of of six


and choice MAKE IT UNIVERSAL


^NOTHER reason for is, of course, that by


whole carcases of beet bkcon and lainb, the skilled Army


Coul up on


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ty Couijicil olds bs^n footpaths


Ramblers omission of a , fdotpath from! New Laund to the stepping stones across the River Hodder at Whltewell has been upheld by Lancashire County Council. But It lias rejected the ob­


AN objection by Mr!IE. W. Hlbbejrd, on behalf jof the Association, 'to the fronr the draft map


jection of Mr. Bruce Clucas to the omission of a fobtpath from New Laund to thb foot­ bridge which f o rme r l y spanned the river 'Several hundred yards away. This wajs reported to Clithe-


roe Rural Council at their meeting last week. The Cldrk, Mr. T. P. Rush-


ton, said jshe decisions tiere In accordance with the vle'ps ex­ pressed by the Council it the public. Inquiry. Mr. Clufcas contended at the


Inquiry that the path was used for many years until the footbridge collapsed under the comblnedj weight of a party of Preston 'people some 30 years ago. He i submitted It Should ■be rebuilt and' the pa^h re­ established.


Byj NATURALISI Winter berries are scarce this year Restless js certainly the correct


term In describing Its activities. Who, on seeing the dipper for the first tiine, would think not adapted for an unde way of life?


The other day I stood on West


Bradford bridge where Just stream a | dipper stood jutting stone just abovfe


down- on a the


rapids. After a few minutes it


threw Itself headlong In the fast­ flowing water.


' How It ’seemed to relish battle against the stream, was no sign of caution again and again plunged bineath the surface in search of


the


There as it


food.


PERFECTLY COMPOs |eD Two minutes later, dry and


perfectly composed it I stood once again on a small boulder dipping as if to acknowledge the admiration of the watcher.!


Later tha t mornhig I heard


the familiar song. This time the dipper was by Dangerous Comer and In spite of the noise of rush­ ing water Ithe loud'muslcail lyric could clearly be heard.


Unfortunately the d pper's


song Is often missed becai&e of the noise of swirling, rushing water, 'but once heard, the delightful strain is never for­ gotten.


j Indeed it is one of the’ most


inspiring sounds to be heard by any water and one whilch I always look forward to j hearing a t this time of the year.


Most birds are now silent, but the dipper begins his. serenade


by November or December, for this is the prelude to nesting. ' The dipper you see d o ^ not


]vait for ithe warmer days to re­ mind ■ him of domestic duties, imdeed come Pebmary an^ nest- ‘ uildlng is well under way,


This as; we know and have iome to expect from this |vat€^


lover, is always cons tracty by the fast-running stream and may In some cases be beneath a cascading waterfall, often hung :!with ice.


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Army ^recrultmentl I understand tha t Captain


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At the same time he is a


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