20 JULY 1934, page 15

Country Life

Early Harvest Harvest has begun early, in the second week of July ; and there seems to be a general idea that it must be indifferently good. This is not true. Over very wide......

Hopeful Farmers Such Hopefulness Has Been Made Articulate...

number of the better agricultural shows. There was a moment when the seed merchants, and indeed some of the makers of machinery, threatened to give up their established......

A Vanishing Flower It Is A Grim Paradox That The

(alleged) lovers of our wild flowers are their most deadly enemies. Here is a lamentable example. In a particular meadow in the South grows. or grew, good quantities of the......

The Wash And The Zuider Zee In The Brand New

Apa Magazine is an account of the reclamation of the Zuider Zee that must make the mouth water of any land-lover, or lubber, who lives by the English Wash. Its reclamation has......

Rogues A Very Strange Example Of The Insensate Savagery That

seems to overcome the unmated male was observed last year in my immediate neighbourhood. A cock French partridge with no mate attacked the brood of an English pair and would......

Migrating Butterflies

The extraordinary discovery last year in England of over thirty Milkweed butterflies that had emigrated from America will draw attention to the list of immigrants that the South......

A Scottish Lament

Have our immigrant summer birds ceased to nest as far north as they used to nest ? A Scottish farmer, who is also a naturalist, tells me that they grow scarcer and scarcer in......

Clydeside Orchards The Orchards That Slope Down To The Clyde

are of singular loveliness and are normally much beloved of birds. Can it be true that the birds (always excepting blackbirds and thrushes) are deserting them ? It is, I think,......