16 JANUARY 1942, page 13

Full Rations

It has been, I think, a common experience this winter—certainly a local one—that game43irds weigh more than they usually have ; and you may observe the same in the birds on the......

In The Garden For House Decoration The Open Garden Has

supplied little vases of Iris stylosa, associated with yellow jessamine, a few pink and blue primroses and plenty of that useful vulgarian, lungwort, of which the pink variety......

Country Life

A REAL victory over war has been won by that excellently practical and, one may say, poetical organisation, the International Committee for Bird Preservation. One of the keenest......

Backyarders •

Very many country people, for the first time in their lives, have been induced to take an interest in poultry, and have had personal experience of the muddle, the harmful......

Authors And Charity

SIR, —The long-established English custom of sponging on artists, especially on authors, has now become an outrageous ramp, and there are persons in Great Britain, presumably......

Organisation For Total War

Sta,—Our need to expand production and economise in man-power resembles, in certain ways, the problem which faced Germany after the Battle of Britain was won by us. It is true......

Small Marauders

We have heard a good deal of the need of campaigns against rats, which certainly do nothing but harm from man's point of view, and are now grimly numerous; but in justice it......

Postage On This Issue : Inland And Overseas, Id.

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