1922.] 



Fruit and Vegetable Growing. 



717 



So far as the construction is concerned a permanent type 

 was decided upon for various reasons, but it is suggested that 

 this scheme lends itself to the method adopted by the Directors 

 of the National Institute for Kesearch in Dairying — i.e., the 

 administrative block, cow-house, and stables might be con- 

 structed in permanent materials, and the covered yard and 

 south ranges might be built of timber with a light truss roof 

 construction and cheap covering material. Such a method 

 would admit of easy and cheap extension to the east when the 

 conditions of farming required increased room for stock. 



There can be little doubt that, at the present time when 

 initial cost in construction is high and farming conditions are 

 in a state of transition, adaptability is a very important factor, 

 and there is therefore much to be said for building in such a 

 manner that alteration and extension may be easy and cheap. 



In conclusion, the writer would like to express his thanks 

 to Mr. E. F. Gutteridge, of Messrs. Gutteridge, of Southamp- 

 ton, architects to the Governors of Seale-Hayne College, for 

 his kindness in permitting the publication of his plans and 

 for his cordial co-operation in all negotiations concerning them. 

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POSSIBILITIES OF FRUIT AND 

 VEGETABLE GROWING IN DURHAM 



AND CHESHIRE, 



W. G. Lobjoit, J.P., O.B.E., 



Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries. 



There are some things which philosophy seems unable to 

 account for. One is markets — why did they establish themselves 

 just where they are? Why do many of them persist in spite of 

 everything? Better alternative sites for Covent Garden Market 

 have been suggested : some attempts have even been made to estab- 

 lish rivals : none, however, has dethroned it. With all its incon- 

 veniences and its incongruities Covent Garden Market still 

 remains a magnet, attracting produce to its congested space from 

 all parts of the world, and it continues to derange and obstruct 

 traffic in the heart of our metropolis. 



Another problem is the areas of the country where market 

 gardening thrives. Why on just this spot or that spot has a 

 colony of intensive cultivators become established? Why 

 just here or there have men solved the smallholding problem for 

 themselves, and are thriving on holdings of smaller area than one 

 would like to pronounce as possible? Superficially some reasons 



