14 AUGUST 1953, page 19

Country Life At First I Thought That The Black Sow

was searching for something in the long grass but it was soon obvious that she was simply getting her nose under the bottom spar, for she began to bump the gate up and down......

Mechanical Fanning The Tractor, Came Bustling Round The...

another building and backed to the implement shed where an enormous trailer was coupled up to it. The young man who was driving the tractor said he would soon be called up and......

Cabbage Butterflies

The large and small white butterflies, pieris brassicae and pieris mime, flutter about the vegetable garden and do more long-term damage than a flock of pigeons unless the green......

A Gardener's Life

Walking down the road I fell in with L. who has a market garden and works as hard as he can almost every hour of daylight in the summer. He complained of a stiff back, for he......

The Passing Show The Village Garage Is A Sort Of

centre for the youths of the place when they find time dragging on a Sunday afternoon and they sit along the wall, kicking their heels and idly watching the traffic or any car......