11 AUGUST 1939, page 19

Country Life

THE " weapon-still-stand " is over; the guns travel to the , rth ; and the grouse, roused from the heather, will stream , .:r the butts. Many good sportsmen feel that the birds......

A Score In Family

Interest in the partridge is not yet seasonable, except to those who find the partridge family the most amusing of all broods to watch. The parents are almost proverbially......

Postponed Harvest

Harvest would be general if the sun would shine. It optned more than three weeks ago ; but for myself I do not remember to have seen the ripening process more completely......

Return To The Land

Quite a large number of young women have made applica- tion for work on the land, including the driving of tractors, should war demand such service. The Minister of Agriculture......

In The Garden

There is a little garden, formed by an expert who modelled the whole in plasticene before constructing it, which contains more than its share of treasures ; but at the moment......

Gloomy Keepers

What of the grouse themselves this year? It is almost traditional among keepers to indulge in gloomy prognostica- tions. The worse the conditions have been, the greater honour......