11 MAY 1934, page 15

And Jackdaws A Bird That Is Undoubtedly Multiplying, Not In

one but many parts of the country, is the jackdaw ; and he is very destructive, not of the farmer's crops, but of other birds. Its multiplication along the Western coast, where......

It Seldom Happens That Spring Gallops To Maturity Quite So

quickly as this year. It was very late, and -is no longer late. One result is that the flowers of several months are blossom- ing simultaneously. The migrant birds, too--or some......

A Threat To Gloucestershire The Address Of A Dweller Near

Broadway, often held, in Goldsmith's phrase, to be the " loveliest village of the lawn," is - commended to the notice of a wide public. He and the Council .for the Preservation......

New-old Cottages It Is In Some Measure Due To The

ideals of the C.P.R.E. that the old English cottage—I know one dating from the fourteenth century—has been twice blessed by recent legisla- tion. Just at first when the Housing......

Country Life

Multitudinous Rooks Is there an increase in the number of rooks in England as most countrymen believe ? A certain controversy has arisen between humanitarians and game......

Altered Plans One General Tendency, That Began To Cause...

in many places, emerges from this example. Regional planning extends. We go to one county town end see maps and plans on which this and that bit of country is zoned or scheduled......

Motor-car Thieves No One Has Made More Effective Pleas For

the preservation of wild flowers than the Bishop of Gloucester, who is an expert botanist. He called attention last week to a more or less new form of raiding. It seems that......