17 MAY 1930, page 14

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A recent visit to another sanctuary adds impetus to my plea that the R.S.P.B. will be strongly supported in its endeavour to secure Romney Marsh as a sanctuary. Great Britain,......

* * What Forms Of Produce, Through The Bad Times

of the last few years have consistently paid the producer ? Dairy produce, especially milk and, rather surprisingly, cheese ; sugar beet (of which much the largest acreage in......

Nightingale And Cuckoo's Mate.

If there is anyone who desires to hear a nightingale and has failed, now is the chance. I never remember to have heard so many. They are almost as common as chiffehaffs in my......

Close Season Extended.

I believe that a particular reform, for which I have often pleaded, has already begun to spread from some of the estates where birds are protected or half protected. Shooting is......

* * * Poultry Or Wheat ?

In my neighbourhood, on farm land, rented very low and perhaps paying no dividend either to landlowner or farmer, have recently appeared over a very wide acreage a crop of......

Country Life

A SQUAD SETTLEMENT. Among minor endeavours to restore farming to popularity " Hughes' Settlement " is worth some attention. Land was bought—at the absurd price of £6 an acre—at......

* * * * Bees And Colour.

Do bees judge chiefly by sight or scent ? Lately, in one garden, at any rate, they were peculiarly busy on two highly coloured flowers : the aubretia and the ribes or wild......

* * * A Spotted Crake.

From time to time accidental discoveries in natural history suggest to us that in spite of the many observers some animals may be much commoner than we suppose. For example,......