10 JUNE 1938, page 18

Co - Operative Tree Planters " Collective Security," That...

the day, is being secured with excellent results - in the defence of rural England against the Goths. Oxfordshire, which has done notable work for what we hope are winning......

Country Life

Farming Research Just twenty - five years ago Oxford and Cambridge divided between them the study of agricultural problems. Oxford started the economic branch and Cambridge......

Why Did It Tap ?

A correspondent asks me whether there is any plausible explanation of the behaviour of a bird that tapped insistently at the window at night. Some of our home birds will do this......

Ominous Birds It Is An Old Superstition Still Prevailing...

in my experience in South Wales) that this night tapping at the window is a precursor of calamity. There is indeed something strange and disturbing in the unwonted sound. The......

— And Of A Herring It Is A Newer Discovery That

fish which spend all their life in the sea carry scales not much less legible than the salmon. The writing on their scales is made not by salt water and fresh, but by summer and......

The Way Of A Salmon— The Norwegians Of Late Have

been adding new facts to our knowledge of the way of a fish in the sea. We all know that parts of a salmon's life, though much is still mysterious, can be read from the......

In The Garden Sonic Years Ago I Heard An American

gardener speak slight- ingly of the lupin as a rough, wild plant, scarcely worthy of the garden. Perhaps once this view was almost justified, but the flower has been steadily......