15 JUNE 1934, page 16

Solomon's Ants

A correspondent, who has been watching wood ants building one of their wooden nests, asks whether Solomon was wise and accurate as a natural historian. There is certainly no......

A Great Rock Garden The Popular And Pleasant Habit Of

throwing private gardens open to the public for a small fee on particular days has been adopted by the C.P.R.E. ; and this Council has chosen one of the most interesting of......

Rural Mariners Water Is Plentiful Everywhere—such Is The...

one enquirer who has been making a water survey for one county council, on the urgency of the Medical Officer of Health. Water is everywhere but in many places there is not any......

The Musk-rat Again Reports Indicate That One Threat...

equal balance of nature in England is absolved. The musquash or musk- rat diminishes. In the course of the official campaign, which has its headquarters in Shropshire, a good......

Country Life

Dowsers and Drought It goes without saying that in the long dry spells of this year and last the art (it is certainly not a science) of the diviner or dowser has been many times......

Man Or Stick ?

So it conies down to the question—can the nerves or senses of a man feel the presence of water or metal or another man ? Native West Australians are said to be able to smell......

Are They Useful ?

Many a gardener has asked petulantly what my corre- spondent asks: What is their place in the economy of nature? It is a question asked with yet more force by the Australian,......