22 SEPTEMBER 1944, page 14

Vermin And Game

A great sportsman tells m..t that he has never seen so many partridg as have flourished this year in his particular neighbourhood. While grouse have been decimated largely by......

Country Life It Is A Curious Fact That A Good

part of the public prefers the worse before the better. This is particularly apparent in the taste for apple s . I should doubt whether any apple is more popular in the market......

Sir,—i Hope That There Are More People Than Mr. Graham

Watson seems to fear, who are not afraid of honest hatred of the Germans, whether Nazis or not, for the atrocities which they have committed. Certainly I believe that the recent......

Ruinous Rats On The Subject Of Rats, Against Which Some

of the War Agricultur Committees arc making a special campaign, it is reckoned by one farm that a hundred rats will eat the total grain produce of an acre, see 18 cwt. of wheat,......

German Methods

Sne,—Your correspondent, Graham Watson, will cause much fluttering in the dovecots of the popular majority who think we should not dwell on the bestial horrors perpetrated by......

Private Schools

Sta,—I should be very interested to hear at what time during his curiously ubiquitous scholastic career " Ex Dominic " attended his four Preparatory Schools. I feel sure that......

Double Summer Time

SIR,—In " Marginal Comment " of your issue of September 15th Mr. Harold Nicolson speaks of double summer time as " beneficial to the mass of the population "—agriculturists......

In My Garden There Is Little Doubt, I Think, That

of all the gourds (marrow, p squash) the best to- eat is the custard marrow. It is sometimes regard as a shy bearer, but one of my neighbours at least complains that fruits too......

Sir,—graham Watson Is Certainly Not In A Minority In...

to doubt the truth of most of the reports of Nazi atrocities, nor in his hatred of these abominations, When he transfers his hatred from the deeds to the perpetrators he is......

Belated Spring

One of the oddities of the season is the discovery among several species of tree and plant that after all there is not a great deal of difference between autumn and spring. Both......