Early Cubbing.
Were the vixens more than usually prolific or precocious this year ? In two cases, within my range, the local Hunt has been asked to bring forward the first day of cubbing......
* * Oak Piggins.
The second example is of a different nature, and is interesting artistically, but not commercially. There is exactly one English workman (he lives on Bucklebury Common,......
* Greedy London!
In talking, during the fruit and vegetable harvest, with various producers (and seedsmen corroborate :them) I find that they unite in bringing a particular charge against the......
A Rural Reply.
A townsman, enchanted by a rare visit to an English harvest field, sends the following " imaginary dialogue " between a townsman and a harvester :- " Oh, the stooks in the......
Now The Present Head Of The Business Is Compact Of
heredi- tary knowledge and skill ; and, what is more, he can compete successfully in the modern market. The scale, of course, is very small. It was a plunge, for example, when......
Country Life
CONTINUOUS ANNALS. The continuity of country life in Britain is a thing that only countrymen believe ; and they take it for granted. It gives peculiar pleasure, in days of quick......
Parental Grouse.
When we hear, as we hear to-day, that the grouse have done well, or the partridges, or even the wild pheasants, we may well think first of the genius and devotion of the......
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The success of the grouse—in Wales and Yorkshire as well as Scotland—makes it surprising. that none is found to-day in the South. Surrey heather is almost as fine as the heather......
Remember The Bureau.
The community councils, and especially the Rural Indus- tries Bureau (27 Bedford Square), are winning successes and making discoveries that surprise themselves. Common sense and......
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