17 NOVEMBER 1928, page 17

The B.b.c. Itself Is Anxious To Discover How The Idea

will be received and what sort of " talk " would be most useful and stimulating. The pioneer experiment in a Hertfordshire village, not yet selected, though it may prove to be......

A Eird's Instinct.

A queer example of the perfection of instinct in one direction and its deficiency in another is given by the behaviour of a certain thrush in Oidord. A young bird, saved as a......

Scores Of Examples Suggest Themselves. How Fruitful In...

(whence sprang the Women's Institutes) is the amalgamation of the churches. It is leading even to the establishment of a real school of native architecture. What co-operative......

Country Life

SALVING ENGLAND. The organized endeavour to preserve. or salve, rural England has begun to show a number of conspicuous successes in many counties, especially in the rather......

Poison Plants.

The instinct for the right foods is generally precise in animals, but not always. In my neighbourhood the other day two fine horses were killed by eating from a bough of yew......

A Travelling Lesson.

An admirable model for defence provided by Leicester was discussed in last week's Spectator. Since then a scheme has been prepared for giving other counties an opportunity of......

A R.b.c. Experiment.

In the same town from which the travelling chamber of horror is probably to start, a new scheme for rural revival was set afoot last week by the Hertfordshire Rural Community......

Dogs And Wireless.

A favourite spaniel's reactions to the service on Armistice Day interested a group of observers. A loudspeaker had just been installed ; and was set in action for the broadcast......