Country Life
Foe is almost unknOwn in this district, but when other areas are fog-bound we often have mist. The mild weather has made the past week or two have more days of mist in them than I can remember for a long time. The mildness and the dampness have combined to keep worms close to the surface so that lawns are being spoilt with casts, and indoors one discovers that all the flies have not gone to the attic for the winter but one or two are mit making a nuisance of themselves as usual. While a mild' winter would save our fuel, I hope we may have a hard spell before spring. So many insects, bugs and other nuisances will survive unless the tacky soil is frozen up, and the earth itself would benefit from a frost. I turned a,,heap of leaves in the garde the other afternoon and was surpristd to see the life they, covered. Two or three cold nights would make short work of the pests that thrive in compost and other decaying matter and, by all accounts, a cold snap would be welcomed by those who sell heavy winter underwear
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