19 NOVEMBER 1927, page 14

By The Tithe Rent Charge Recovery Act Of 1891 (when

the liability to pay was finally transferred from the tenant to the landowner) a certain change was made whereby the average price of corn did not absolutely and in all cases......

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Immense areas of land over all these districts of England have been let from Michaelmas last at rents that are scarcely bigger than the tithe, and in some cases smaller.......

Roads Or Remembrance.

A pretty suggestion has been put forward (in a curiously obscure letter I) by the Roads of Remembrance Association (47 Victoria Street). Volunteers both young and old are asked......

A Correspondent From Winscombe, In Somerset, Sends Some...

of the attraction of the garden for wild birds. In comment on the list of birds noted in a Surrey garden, he writes :- " 1 have kept_ a careful record of those observed in my......

Money In Birds.

The duty and privilege of preserving birds has been raised to a national obligation by a pamphlet, published at 2d. by the R.S.P.B. from 82 Victoria Street, and written by......

Country Life

TrrnE on No TrrnE. A legal point of the highest importance to the landowner fanner and to the Church has been raised in the Eastern Counties and is engaging the attention of the......

What Is The Logical Issue Of Such A State Of

things ? In a Hertfordshire parish, in days when tithe was collected in kind, and a constant warfare raged between parson and farmer, one of the fariners absolutely refused to......

Nature's Balance.

I believe that every single special definite inquiry into the feeding habits of British land birds (certain fishing birds are perhaps an exception) has enlarged the proof of......