11 OCTOBER 1930, page 16

And Tiie River.

Contrast with this chance, but admirable, example from Hampshire what has happened and is happening elsewhere, along other streams. The Test is pure. What of the Ver ? Or, on a......

How Birds Ff.ed.

It is a question open to more scientific enquiry than it Inc received how far birds prepare the food for their young. Certainly some feed by regurgitation ; some perhaps in both......

The C.p.r.e. Has Gone From Strength To Strength. It Is,

in fact, organized by born pioneers ; but, as it seems to some critics, it is not yet positive enough. As the initial phrase quoted above suggests : " . . . . its master-bias......

* * A Starved Assassin. There Came To My Notice

this year the first instance in my memory of the failure of a young cuckoo to extract food from its foster parents. It was born in a wagtail's nest, and after its cruel and......

The Placing Of Factories In Village Surroundings—if They...

mind being compared with sewage farms—is also a good and proper movement, worthy of being definitely promoted by the C.P.R.E. Indeed, the opening speech was delivered by Sir......

Country Life Tiie Nnw England.

This week's National Conference of the Council for the Preservation of Rural England at Welwyn Garden City has a certain historic importance—or ought to have. Its object is "to......

The Factory.

The preservation of rural England must go hand in hand with a constructive policy. It must help the new road and the transported factory to consent to a mutual relation with the......

Placed So That The Village They Serve May Be Drenched

with evil smells in certain winds and at certain states of weather and yet worse penalties may be inflicted on the villagers from private nuisances as well as the bad science of......

Salved Nestlings.

In answer to a query in aviculture, how to feed young swallows fallen from the nest, I have received an account of experiences with young swifts that should be helpful to anyone......