The Revived Craftsman
It has been apparent in many counties for some while that the demand for the work of rural craftsmen (in iron, wood, leather, clay and stuff) is in excess of the supply. Quite......
Country Life
Rural Reconstruction Some years ago a small group of very thoughtful and widely experienced people met to thresh out the agricultural question in Britain, largely, I fancy, on......
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A List of Vermin On the subject of the return of the polecat—now very numerous in Radnor and Merioneth—a curious entry from a churchwarden's book in the Vale of Clwyd reaches......
Bird Greetings
If Christmas and New Year's cards are a recognisable form of art, then English art has made a long step forward in one department. The traditional picture has disappeared ; but......
Emigration At Its Best
Within the next week or two a number of English children, mostly from crowded urban quarters, will set out to the new Fairbridge school at Molong in New South Wales. The first......
Vanished Species
The tale of vermin, so-called, has altered immensely in England as doubtless in both Wales and Scotland. A game- keeper's list of victims of about a hundred years ago contains a......
To Keep Or To Kill ?
To preserve or not to preserve is not quite so easy a questioa as most humanitarian theorists would have it. For example : my postbag this week contains a long letter from the......
Winter Blossom
Most gardeners nurse some particular primula that has an invincible tendency to flower in the face of winter. It is often not so much the nature of the variety as the way of a......
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