23 NOVEMBER 1951, page 18

Fouling Your Own Nest

For how many home-growers is not the prohibition of imported fresh fruits a lifebelt against a sea of troubles ! I am reminded of a Hereford- shire farm of interacting cora,......

In The Garden

Having been laid up, I gingerly took a few steps along the paving above the garden—to see April in the lap of November, grape hyacinth, scilla, crocus, snowdrop and even......

Country Life

Few are the countries exempt from the world-phenomenon of the disparity between population and food-supply, the Malthusian dilemma. How many have refrained from violating the......

A Weasel Stor,

In reply to my note on a weasel and its young, Commander Phipps Hornby sends me his tale of a personal encounter. Wheeling his bicycle uphill in Scotland, he met two young......

What Harm Is Done By Wild E Animals The Ministry Of

Agriculture sends me Wild Mammals and the Land as a sequel to Wild Birds and the Land. It has a well-designed cover, is full of striking photographs, and is written by a......