17 JANUARY 1931, page 15

The Most Serious Loss Of Prestige To The Hunt Comes

from the defection of the farmers. Partly owing to depression in the industry, partly to change in the race of farmer, the number who hate to see horses galloping over their......

Country Life

is FOXIIUNTING DOOMED - ? Wherever a country house, in its technical sense, is found, or wherever sportsmen are collected together, it is odds that the future of hunting will be......

Bird's Christmas Tree.

A special Christmas tree for birds was long ago designed by Baron von Burlepsch, a well-known German ornithologist ; and it may be useful to recall his methods by way of illus-......

A Change Has Come, Very Sudden In Appearance, Though Its

approaches have been gradual enough. It is of some social importance, even of historical importance, to get the details clear, to estimate the reality of the fears of the......

The Troubles Of The Hunt Do Not End With Their

economics. -There is also social trouble. The war between the shoot and the hunt is much more open than it used to be, much more generally acknowledged. One of the very greatest......

What Will Happen To The Foxes Where The Hunts Disappear,

as some certainly will ? Where shooting continues to flourish the • foxes will vanish completely. Any good keeper can, if he will, destroy every local fox within two breeding......

Is Hunting Near Its End ? It Has A Local

history of just 259 years, if we take the formation of the first pack; and a sport Ao long established could not disappear . without a profound influence on the way of life in......

London Birds.

The yearly reports of the birds seen in London parks have accustomed us to regard London as a sanctuary (from which even Rima cannot scare the braver visitors) ; but do we yet......