16 SEPTEMBER 1949, page 18

Danish Examples As I Have Just Returned From Denmark,...

is a subject difficult to avoid. One of the stronger political bodies consists largely of small farmers, and I doubt whether any country has a rural civilisation more pleasant......

Country Life

FOR once in a way the British Association was presided over by a farmer, so to call him ; and no one has a deeper knowledge, at least of the science and theory of farming, than......

Wasps And Hornets It Is A Very Waspish Year. Even

apples on the tree—at any rate on one F.11ison's Orange—have been reduced to the state of Chinese lanterns. One of my beehives was attacked by a commando of wasps, but they were......

Afrikaners

SIR,—Mr . Calpin's interesting article on the Khama-Williams marriage assumes that the world at large knows what an Afrikaner is. I feel sure I am only one of many who do not.......

In The Garden Why Does Watering, From Can Or Hose,

have less effect than rain ? The strange, unprecedented succession of droughts, or near-droughts, has ruined the potato and carrot harvest, dwarfed the Michaelmas daisies and......

The Bird Trust It Is Not Necessary To Belong To

any society in order to extract pleasure and knowledge from the observation of birds ; but the latest report of the excellently organised British Trust for Ornithology (with the......

Budapest Festival Sir, —in His Article International...

that the National Union 4 Students was unaware, beforehand, of the political aspect of certain of tEe demonstrations which took place during the World Festival of Youth and......

The Spectator

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" Any Old Word "

Sts,—Apropos of the comments of " Janus " on the use or misuse of words. The advocates of the theory " any old word in any old sense" will find their views most aptly expressed......