17 SEPTEMBER 1937, page 17

A Garden Lover Few Of Us See A Live Hedgehog—though

their bodies are not uncommon on the road—more than once in a blue moon— however seldom that may be ; but it is a very common animal indeed. In some districts it abounds. I know......

Cows And Hedgehogs It Is Difficult To Believe The Discovery

announced by a distin- guished research committee which has been searching for the distributing agency of foot-and-mouth disease. The hedgehog is the alleged enemy. I should......

Buried Alive !

On a farm in Berkshire, very familiar to me, an agricultural labourer was asked whether he remembered the date when a certain field was last sown with Sainfoin. Labourer; always......

A Premier Naturalist Fired Perhaps By A Famous Story Of

Bismarck and his tits, our. Prime Minister has been trying to attract tits to the old Downing Street garden. He tells the tale of the tragedy of the unhatched eggs in the latest......

Country Life

English Autumns More often in September than in any month of the year we feel that England is endowed with the perfect climate. The characteristic September day is of spring......

Litter And The Parish An Ardent Preserver Of Rural England

went to the police the other day and entreated them to stop the weekly decanting of litter on a beautiful common. It is situate about twenty-five miles North of London, a......