THE LANDSWOMAN
February, 1920
flower, tree, or vegctabl<', as well aR h()w to grow
it. If, therefore, there is any particular plant about
which you want all the informn.tion that IS avail-
able let me know and { will talk to )fiss )looN·
n bout it.
l have been anxious for some time to hav<' a page
in the magazine which should bo really useful to
gMdcn<'f~, not just a few amatt ur hints, but )hss
l\loore is f!uch a very bu~y pnr!ion that I hesitat<'d
for a long time bcf()ro 1 dared to ask h<'r to share hf·r
wonderful s upply of knowledge with the reader!$
o£ the LANDRWO:\fPf. However, I need not have
worried, for s he wrote back to say she would be
clE"lightod to do anything to help the littlo yellow
magazin~.
Huch an extru.orchna.ry knack has the
LANDSWO:'tiAN of making true friend R t
OUR POULTRY PAGE.- I am sure that all our
rca(lors who are interested in poultry will be pleaqod
to hear that .Mr. W. Powell-Owen has conqontcd
to <'onduct us safely through e.ll the difficulties of
·ke<'ping and r<'aring poultry. In addition to an
n.rticle every month in THE LANDSWOliAN, he has
kindly promised to answer any enquiries addresc;ed
to him at the Editorial Office, providPd always that
an address and stamped en velopo is enclosed.
This will, I know, be a. tremendous help to a. great
many of us. Our own particular birds have their
own particular troubles, and my experiE"nce is that
the solution of them is seldom found in the ordinary
text books on poultry-keeping.
Personally, I shall find it a great com1ort to be
able to write to such an expert as .Mr. Powell-
Owcn, and ask his advice about my pet cockerel
who is looking pale-eyed and blinking and bumpy,
and I feel suro there are many others of our readers
to whom this concession will be a great boon.
·we are keeping up our reputation for having the
best of everything in TnE LJ..~oswo~IA~, for Mr.
P owell-Owen is a. Fellow of the British Societ) of
Agriculture, a member of the Council of the :Sational
trtility Poultry Society, and his books have be<>n
so popular that they ha.ve run through more
editions than most oth€'r poultry books. He has also
tho additional distinction of being the only poultry
expert whose books on this subj.ect have been printed
in Braille for the use of the blind.
You see the Association has brought many new
friends to TnE LANDSWO)IA~ ; friends whose
interests are rather different from those of our dear
old L.A.A.S., and we are very keen to cater for them
efficiently. Gardening, poultry-~cepin~, an~ a
cookery column of Mr. C. H. Senn s rece1pts will be
rogular features of the magazine, and I. shall be very
glad to receive suggestions for developmg any other
of the many different subjects . of agricultural
interest which our readers would hke to see r~pre
sonted in the magazine. \Ve hopo to have occas1onal
o.rt.icles on bees, rabbits, goats, an~ several other
Ride lines of farm work. 1 am partiCularly keen to
make Tn:E LANDSWOM.\N acceptable to those part·
timo workers, as we used to call them, the village
women, who have now become members of the
Association, and I hopo very mu~h tha~ so~e of
them will write and tell me what lS lackmg m the
paper which would interest them.
which were in d<'manY. would
be a rt11in, t<, !ntwn, have been
faithfully carried out.
SEWING
CLUB.-Thc baskets are ahll going
well and are in great demand. In addition to the
leading \Vest-end drapers, you can I).OW buy them
m every one of ~lP::~srs. Lyon::;' big shops m London,
and very pretty they look deco~a.ti~g the1r windowfl.
Requests for supplies are commg m from the pro-
vince::;, and we are sendmg off boxe3 of Ramples a.s
fast a.s we can go.
I went down the other day to the ho~td in Ox1ord·
shire where all the baskets are made. and in spite of
the fact that I lost my train down there (I had got
up at .3.30 a..m. to catch it. but. there w~ a block
on the line) nearly lost my tram home (1t W38 the
last one), and drove through a. hail storm in an open
trap, all of which things use up. ~ !ot of my
good temper supply, I enjoyed my VISlt 1mmen~ely.
The basket girls are living in a lovely .old hous(•
(I rather want to live there my:self) m a most
picturesque little village, and they seem to have a
very happy time of it. Anyway, they looked
thoroughly cheerful and were. all sing~ng at t.heir
work like a. little company of JOyous buds. \\hen
I get tired a.nd dumpy 1 am going down to that
hostel for a whole week-end !
X ow that the readers of TnE L \SD::>\\ o:,u" a.re
not confined to our old Land Army fric:>11ds I feel
rather that I ought to begin my letter in a more
formal-perhaps, more respectful-way. But I have
hunted about for another way of addressing you.
and I have hunted in vain-for "dear readers"
looks ridiculous, and " dear friends · sounds lik~
an open air meeting. I might say'' d~ar comrades,
but some of you would probably thmk 1 wa~ pre-
suming on a. very short acquaintance. So 1 haYe
left it at our old beginning-and I trust our ne\\
friends will forgive us. Perhaps, ~lso, 1t we agree
to be quite grown up and proper m all the other
paaes of TnE L\!\DSWO:\IA~ they will put up ~vith
ou~ very familiar- just-between-oursel ves-httlc
talk on this page.
I would rather like to have addre~aed ;}OU as
comrades because it reminds me of those fino lines
of Watt.' Whitma.n's which describe so oxactly
what the Association, and, incidentally, THtl
LANDSW0'1AN, arc out to do-
" Come, 1 will make the continent indissoluble
I will make tho mo~t splendid race tho snn ever
shono upon.
I will make di\.ine magnetic lands
With the lovo of comrad~s."
SHOPPING CLUB.-The sales hav? kept us
That may sound as lhough we havo st•t our~elvt•s
vory busy this month, but even so.lo pnccs arc so
an imposslblo ta~k, but remember, no quest, no
high that we havo not been able to
fil somo. of
conquest, and who is it who says somewhoro
your rcqn<'sts. Odd remnants of crepo de chme
!ul
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