More Game
The numbers of that exclusive British bird, the Red Grouse, are immense in many districts, as are those of partridges. Now grouse, more surely than any other species of bird,......
Country Life
Merry England The old Mill is in Domesday. The stream is a favourite swimming pool for a swan, where it makes a still pond above the mill and a not uncommon haunt of both......
Banks And Savings Certificates
Srn,—Might a banker explain that what Mr. Deayton is proposing, in expecting his bank to do without both adequate bank balance and commission on his account is simply that the......
Divide Et Impera "
Sta,—I should be grateful if you would allow me to draw your atten- tion to a small factual inaccuracy in the paragraph entitled " Divide et Impera," in your issue of August......
Sia,—no One Will Dispute Your Contention That The...
Britain to foreign countries is an important part of the function of the M.O.I., but to suggest that the moulding of public opinion at home can safely be left to the public......
London Butterflies London, Which Becomes A Bird...
favoured by butter- flies. Attempts to breed them in the Parks, as I witnessed many years ago, all failed owing to the activity of urban parasites. Yet visitors sometimes......
Touch With The People
Stn,—The confession made by Sir Wyndham Deedes in your issue of last week, that " considerable perplexity seems to exist regarding the character and porpose of the Local......
Tamer Birds That Wild And Cunning Bird, The Jay, Seems
to have altered its wonted habits since the war. Usually it is fond of gardens only when the green peas are ripening. Its passion for this vegetable is overmastering. This......
Many People Are, I Believe, Trying To Store Vegetables In
newly re - commended ways against the winter; and one of the more popular new devices is to bury green peas in a well-corked bottle. Now Peas are kink cattle, full of vitality......
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