10 MARCH 1933, page 13

Ashridge And Agriculture.

The recruiting of farmers of that type should be encouraged by the new activities of the C.P.R.E. This ingenious Council has arranged for the last week-end of March a conference......

Norfolk Or Wiltshire ?

Some very wide districts, especially in West Norfolk, are now farmed, so to say, by engineers. One of the biggest single farms covers about 6,000 acres, and would have been a......

On The More Particular Subject Of Electrical Development...

to the appearance, not the comfort, of the country, the C.P.R.E. has just issued one of the most useful of its leaflets. Pleas for protection from the ugliness of electrifica-......

Garden Birds.

A large number of lists of garden birds have reached me, many of them compiled over a long series of years. The papers of one list are obviously " yellowed with their age," but......

It Would Be Interesting To Know How Many Of These

birds nested in the gardens. Some correspondents give this detail, some do not. In my experience of urban and suburban birds—and it is not at all extensive—a good many more......

A Dog's Setting.

A neighbour, who among many other activities, has a little holding, takes his spaniel every Sunday morning with him to collect the hens eggs. He kept a record, which disclosed......

Country Life

TIM NEW FARMER. It is, I think, of good omen for British husbandry that young men—in some places groups of young men—of good education are beginning to take up land. They are......

A Red Sqtirrel Colony.

We hear so much of the numbers and range of the grey squirrel (which is said, I think falsely, to attack the smaller squirrel) that it is particularly pleasing to hear of spots......