15 SEPTEMBER 1939, page 17

Country Life

Autumn Glory September brought, as often, the loveliest weather of tce year. All the proper symptoms of the date are at the highest power. Growth is of almost fantastic speed in......

In The Garden

We are all urged to grow more vegetables, and this may be done in many places without destroying flower gardens or bringing much new land into cultivation. It has been recently......

Abandoned Grouse

Those who have returned from Scotland, leaving the bulk of the grouse to rest in peace, have had some unusual experi- ences. The birds themselves were incredibly numerous on......

Night-time Harvesting

At nine o'clock, after the sun had set and before a very red moon had risen, the farmer was still driving his tractor round the great square of his clover field. It was too dark......

Recurrent Clover

There is much in these second crops of clover to interest the naturalist as well as the farmer. They are often grown for the purpose of the seed, and the amount of seed may......

Green Tilth

The next field but one to this clover field, whose , rostrate crop already looks brown under the sun, is a picture f war-time farming. It was grass, and is now filth; but it ,......