Sharp-eared Sheep How Acute Are The Senses Of Animals And
birds when compared with our own 1 Crows and pigeons have wonderful sight. Pheasants can see well, but their hearing is quite uncanny. How good the vision of sheep is I have......
Boncmcal Is A Useful Dressing For All Trees And Shrubs
at this time of year. Old beds should have a lime dressing if they have not been manured, because it promotes decompo- sition of organic matter, breaks down stiff, clay soil and......
Cinema
Carrington V.C. (Warner.)—One Good Turn. (Odeon.)—Phffft. (Leicester Square.) Carrington V.C. is a near-faithful reproduc- tion of the play of that name by Campbell and Dorothy......
Broody Hens
Once, long ago, when we kept a number of farmyard birds, 'we found that broody hens were a glut on the market. We had far more of them than we wanted. The mixed flock contained......
Country Life
THE weather is never out of the news and because of the way forecasting is done, mistakes, when they are made, loom large. The impersonal report of the weather man is torn to......
Spectator Competition No. 253 Set By J. M. Cohen
The usual prize is offered for a translation in sonnet form of this sonnet by Ronsard: Marie, a tons les coups vous me venez reprendre Que le suit trop leger, et me dices......
Cracker Mottoes
A prize of £5 was offered for a motto for a Christmas cracker, in not more than six lines of verse. It was to be light, but need not be so silly as most cracker mottoes. The......
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