19 MAY 1933, page 14

Country Life

GARDENS FOR THE MILLION. A new effort in gardening for the million—especially for the two million six hundred thousand of unemployed—is being made ; and has, in my view,......

Oil On Troubled Waters.

The Kent and Sussex coasts are especially pilloried (by the Scottish S.P.C.A.) as areas of destruction for sea birds, including razor bills, puffms, guillemots and several......

Allotment Gardens Have A Very Active History ; And Pro-

duced a marvellous sum of food during the War. They have been limited chiefly by lack of leisure. The country suffers today from excess of leisure. The use of leisure is and......

Our Own Small Holdings Have Cost A Deal Of Money

; which will not be made good, which must be written off ; but he would be a pessimist indeed who could visit Holbeach or Sutton Bridge and deny the quality of the colonies of......

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STUPID Dens The latest dog show has re-aroused a question that is more and more seriously disturbing dog-lovers. Th e Fancy," that strange and esoteric group who decree the......

How Far This Charge Is Justified I Do Not Know

in the least ; but my own experience of some other sporting dogs, especially spaniels and red setters, certainly holds up the complaint, very forcibly put by an artist......

The Scope Of The Allotment Garden As Organized By The

Society of Friends is as wide as unemployment itself ; and that, alas, is wide indeed. Today about 100,000 unemployed men have garden allotments large , enough to occupy a good......

Better Sense Has Directed The Fanciers Of Some Few Breeds.

On the whole, the show Labrador is a good all-round dog, and the intelligence of some of the Toy dogs, notably the " Peke," is astonishingly acute. The worst happens among dogs......