The Unpopular Hunt.
It is, I think, beyond question that hunting—of stag, of fox, and of hare, and even of otter—is a sport approaching a social crisis. Three notable examples of local and very......
A Cuckoo Parent.
It happens that within a few days letters about native birds, evoked by paragraphs in the Spectator, have reached me from Queensland (where bird sanctuaries are multiplying),......
Hard Frosts Before Christmas, Which Are Rare In England,...
two special obligations to the gardener : to cover up tenderer bushes and plants, and to feed the birds. It is my experience that plants are more susceptible to these early......
Some Vital Questions.
The questions are few. What is the acreage ? What the rent ? What proportion grass or arable ? What the general type of production ? But the point on which special emphasis is......
A Suburban Crow.
Rooks, and the crow tribe in general, are probably the cleverest of all birds, but perhaps too much intelligence is sometimes attributed to them. It was said, for example, after......
Since These Things Are So, It Behoves All Who Wish
to follow hounds, harriers, or beagles to be more tactful than some of them are in such details as asking leave and in avoiding damage. The most thorough destruction of foxes I......
Country Life
WHERE DOES FARMING PAY ? An agricultural survey, of a quite novel sort, has been de vised by the thoughtful and ingenious authorities of the Oxford Agricultural Institute, which......
A Native Rose.
Inquiries continue to reach me from home and abroad about a certain rose incidentally mentioned on this page a year and more ago. It is said to be unknown and unprocur- able,......
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