The Invincible Rabbit The Campaign For The Complete...
rabbits in this country seems to be increasing in intensity; and the dieticians have been called in to deny the value of the rabbit as an article of food. It is alleged to be......
In The Garden
Queries reach me about " species tulips " to which some passing reference was made recently. Quite a large number of true species of tulip exist, most of them hailing from......
Diminishing Thrushes
The complaint seems to be general, though it is not true, I think, of my neighbourhood, that the blackbird has multiplied at the expense of his cousin the thrush. At one time......
Country Life
Fair Farms At a time when the chief malady of stock is more rampant than it has ever been, the English farms look supremely well, whether the fields are grass or plough or......
Cormorants And Fish One Of The Commoner Sights On The
Amazon or its great tributary the Rio Negro is the fishing performance of the cormorants. Now the rivers are full of fish of any sort or size. Some may be 400 lbs. in weight,......
Plant Poisons
Many years ago one of the greatest of our biologists, now the sole survivor of the Ross expedition, found the Chinese poisoning fish with derris root. He did a deal of work in......
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