22 SEPTEMBER 1928, page 13

A Plucky Partridge.

Even in the most drastic farm operations we see an occa- sional example of the courage of birds in clinging to their nest. This year in my neighbourhood the driver of a cutter......

September Weather.

Day after day, even week after week, we have had good reason to sing paeans to the charm of England. What seductive days September has given us : a heavy night dew, a morning......

A Late Partridge.

In one harvest field a partridge, or rather two partridges (for the cock sits as well as the hen), hatched fifteen eggs on September 4th. Now the standard date for the hatehing......

A Sex-linked Query.

On the subject of scientific breeding a really important announcement is likely to be made by the Cambridge School of Mendelians during this October. Mr. Punnett (who has......

Country Life

WHERE CROPS FLOURISH. It happens that during this autumn I have visited a number of the districts in England where the selective genius of our cultivators is most in evidence,......

The Pace Of A Pigeon.

• That most English habit of flying Homer pigeons has been indulged with unusual thoroughness this autumn. At certain stations on the railways the porters have been largely......

Again, A Young Cornishman Who Had Hitherto Scarcely Left His

native parish, was taken to London and shown over Covent Garden (that distributive centre which has ruined so many producers). The splendour of the strawberries was pointed out......

Our Jack Hoaxers.

The trouble is that we have become a community of" Jack Homers.' We have put in our thumbs and pulled out the plums'; and are entitled each of us to say, "What a good boy am I !......