A Partridge Problem.
It is a good year for most things, for birds and beasts as for plants, though a bad year, for some unknown reason, for many insects, including butterflies and, some say, the......
New Harvesters.
Several novel machines will be seen at work in the present harvest. On one southern estate a tractor will pull a cutter- and-binder, behind which in turn will be hitched a disc......
The August Migration.
The migration to the moors and the sea is easy to understand when harvest falls and the freshness of foliage and seeming freshness of the air grows a little stale. But it is......
Advantages Of The North.
The Scottish Aberdonian and Lothian farmers have an advantage peculiar to the North. Almost all trade in food proceeds from south to north. The consumer favours earliness. The......
A Life-saving Duck.
A delightful account reaches me from a Somersetshire Rectory of a life-saving feat by a domestic duck, which deserves to rank with the geese of the Capitol ! One un- fortunate......
Norfolk Claims.
English farmers, perhaps, do not exploit their quality of northerliness as much as they might ; but of recent years quite a considerable trade in grain seed has developed owing......
The Twelfth.
The red grouse is our one unique bird. It belongs to Britain and to no other country ; and marvellously fits its environment. Perhaps that is one reason why it affects our......
Country Life
THE BEST FARM. Though comparisons are, as we know, " odorous," they may be very helpful and are the chief cause of progress. So it may be legitimate to ask, as a large group of......
Where Essex Excels.
The most gorgeous bit of England (apart from an acre or two near Reading) is probably between Coggeshall and Kelvedon ; and thereabouts the farming could scarcely be better. It......
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