22 JUNE 1956, page 26

Liquid Manure

Liquid manure is a great help to fruit tree • providing it is not used too strong. The bes way is to 'infuse' a sack of farmyard manu in a tank or barrel of water. A pale ambe......

Hunter And Hunted Hares Have The High Ground To Themselves

at present, the few upland rabbits having been eliminated, and they are the quarry of the hill fox, that lean, yellow one that trots from bracken patch to bracken patch, or......

New Novels

UNINTENTIONALLY, most novels are equipped with facilities for w ithdrawal of the reader ' s attention, but not many novelists Perceive the artistic and practical necessity for a......

Chess

BY PHILIDOR No. 55. J. J. P. A. SEILBERGER BLACK (13 men) WHITE (II men) WHITE to play mate in 2 mo , solution next v,s Solution to week's problem Faulkner: B-K no threat. 1%4......

Country Life

BY IAN NIALL NEARLY eighty years have passed since Richard Jefferies wrote about Hodge and his masters, and, in the meantime, things have changed somewhat for both. Hodge today......

Crow Talk

I went out the other evening to look at the sky, which, for some reason, was un- /usually bright, and found the rooks were aware of it, for they were talking- away as merrily as......

Recent Reprints

NOVELS, ETC. Collins Classics Series: Barlasch of the Guard, by H. Seton Merriman (4s. 6d.); Marguerite de Valois, by Alexandre Dumas (5s. 6d.); 58 Short Stories, by 0. Henry......