Country Life
RURAL PLANNING. One effect of the wise activities of the Council for the Preservation of Rural England, who have had a most success= ful meeting at Manchester, is the formation......
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VEGETABLE DYES. It is pleasant to know that there is some revival of the use of common plants for dyes. For example : wools in delicately graded tints, chiefly brown, green and......
The Partridge Population.
Personally and by correspondence I have made this autumn a sort of census of the population of partridges in widely separated districts ; and some of the results seem to me......
Birds And Wires.
Last week, two or three days after writing that I had found no birds, save a single thrush, killed by the new electric wires, I. came upon two partridges killed dead, one......
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A Doo's PRE.nnotE. Some small experiments I have been making on my own spaniel may give a certain" glimpse into the psychology 'Of dogs in general. He is an excellent retriever,......
Birds And Oil.
The international convention for dealing with oil-pollution on the high seas has broken down, to the great disappointment of the organizers both in America and Great Britain.......
The Origin Of Golf
In a very pleasing little speech last week at a semi-private dinner, given to Mr. Warner of cricket fame, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle said that the origin of most games was British,......
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