[Leica] Something for the vicarious walker

[doubs43 at cox.net (Walker Smith)]

GeeBee, thanks for the reply and I'll be interested in knowing what's 
actually planted there. I'd often take back roads around the East 
Anglian countryside and the yellow fields of rape stretching over the 
distant hills was always beautiful.

Frank, you're likely right. I've seen all of those crops in East Anglia 
and there was a huge sugar beet processing plant along the main road 
through Bury St. Edmunds. Sugar beets were - and I suppose still are - a 
major cash crop there. Lots of rape, corn (wheat) and maize too. I was 
amazed to see farms of 2,000 acres or more. The average dairy farm where 
I grew up in the states was more on the order of 300 - 400 acres. There 
were even a few cattle growers and some farmers worked two and even 
three farms which expanded their potential quite a bit.

Walker