1 JUNE 1934, page 15

Wild Flowers It Is A Pity That Some Papers Should

have published, as ideal scenes of this Whitsuntide, children bearing armfuls of flowers obviously pulled up almost by the roots. The flowers in question looked like bluebells,......

Country Life

Extensive Farms We have heard a good deal of the wonders of the mechanized farm from the Oxford authorities in farm economics, who are pioneer thinkers ; but they have chiefly......

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Intruding Pheasants On a neighbouring estate the pheasants have been exagger- ating an old, but not a frequent eccentricity. Not one, but half a dozen, have laid eggs in......

Mechanical Speed

One morning one of the rectangles on this Worcestershire farm was .decently covered with a crop of cabbages. By the evening of the same day it was entirely planted with another......

The Difficult Egg

Isolated eggs of a good many species are more difficult to identify than is easily realized. The most attractive nest in the garden is a willow warbler's. When you divide the......

Man And The Machinery

Almost side by side of the intensive vegetable farm I have described is an extensive farm, also mechanized. It is famous for the appearance of two ships' funnels, converted into......

Garden Nests I Was Asked The Other Day To Visit

a garden, not to admire its flowers, though they were wholly admirable, but to identify a number of birds' nests. Four out of the first six were brown linnets' ; and in another......

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Rough and Ready Not everything in such work is ideal. The putting in of the potatoes was rough work and probably the yield will be very poor as compared with the crops that the......