AUSTRALIAN ARTISTS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14607, 17 May 1918, Page 4

AUSTRALIAN ARTISTS.

FOR TRENCHES AND ACADEMY.

LONDON, May 8. Messrs. John Longstaff, Arthur Streeton, and. Henry Fullwood (Australian artists) are going to France. Mr. H. S. Power's picture m the Academy is the largest m the exhibition. It depicts an Australian battery ffoinir into action. b

Academy acceptances include Mr Quinn's portrait of General Birdwood and a painting by Mr Streeton of ths •Suez Canal.

. Hie luatea went on the slip yesterday morning for annual overhaul, and is expected to com© off to-night

Addressing Berkshire farmers at Beading m March last, Mr. Prothero (British Minuter of Agriculture) gave the * ng P articnl ars of the food value of 100 acres of land: Under grass, enough for fifteen people; under mangolds, enough for thirty-five people: under wheat, enough for 200 people- ?? if r i P otatoes » enough for 420 people. If half the potatoes were used for pics the 100 acres would yield food value tor 210 people, and m the form of pig-meat foodl for forty-five. One acre of grass land, ho said; gave 120 gallons of milk, or 12001 b. of food; one acre of potatoes, 11,2001 b. of food as good as milk. Yet, Wis stated, nearly half England, which is capable of cultivation, is at present under pasture, so\vn down m permanent grass.

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