21 SEPTEMBER 1934, page 16

Skye Or Achill?

Many an Irish countryman, as indeed many a Scottish, is aided by little local industries, of which peat is the most important. It gives warmth to the neighbours of the many......

The Fuchsia Hedge Atlantic Winds Are Unfavourable To...

starveling groves of stunted trees sloping (like Orion) from the west one sees on the coast of Wales ; but these winds are for the most part soft and warm and peculiarly......

A Double Crop

Our English farmers have been exulting in rare yields of pure bred wheats, even up to eight quarters of Yeoman or Little Joss ; but they will hardly rival the very small holder......

British Bulbs A Full List Of British Bulb-growers And...

has been published or republished by the Ministry, to whom application may be made at Whitehall Place. It is valuable in the first instance for those who have inunediate need of......

* * * * Migrant Birds

A passage, to which the attention of students of bird migra- tion ought to be directed, appears from a Palestine correspon- dent in the latest (and best) number of The......

Country Life

Primitive Farms Those of us who are in the neighbourhood of modern farms, much more those familiar with the lumbering, but efficient monsters known as harvester-threshers, may......

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£60 Cottages We have been discussing much and with no little heat the building of cheap cottages in English villages. Could we, I wonder, take any hints from Ireland ?......