In your issue of December 15th last Sir W. Beach
Thomas wrote regarding what was said of Rooks that, after the recent gales, as after many another gale, they seldom or never chose a tree for their nest if it was likely to fall." A farmer told me the following. He had some beasts grazing, and was in the habit of shutting them up every night in a cowshed in a corner of the field : this shed was at the foot of a large elm tree._ During one of the recent gales he went to shut up his stock as usual, but could not induce them to go into the shed, and after much vain effort gave up trying and left thein to lie out in the open. Next day he found the elm, had crashed; entirely demolishing the shed. Did the cattle sense in some way the coming fall of the tree ?----Campaara, MeIvroari,
Stoke Mandeville, Aylesbury. . .
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