24 FEBRUARY 1933, page 14

An Engineer's Credo.

The best engineer's Credo that I know of is contained in a little pamphlet—now rather ancient history—containing the report of a speech delivered last autumn before the British......

The Success Of This Endeavour—of Which Once Again Oxford...

gives the best example—may in the sequel add a very considerable sum to the wealth of the country, as did the allotments in the War. It will help much to the end of the re-......

The Best Singer.

It is an old controversy : which bird's song is the sweetest. So beautiful a denial of my claim for the blackbird reaches me, from a London observer, that I must quote it ; and......

Formed On Behalf Of Birds, A Little Society Called The

B.B.B. is at the beginning of a successful career. It was started, under the encouragement of the Society for the Protection of Birds by the present secretary, Miss Richenda......

Country Life

WOMEN FARMERS. From time to time it has been charged against Women's Institutes that they have not concentrated enough on the garden, that the home has not included the......

More Winter Immigrants.

The other day, calling attention to the quite abnormal number of blackbirds in field and garden, I ventured the suggestion that a much larger number were immigrants than is......

A Planned Country.

Everyone who loves the England that was should do his best to urge his local council to put into force the Town and Country Planning Act that comes into force on April. 1st. It......

Farmers' New Machines.

I spent an hour or two this week in talking with an expert and enthusiastic believer in the Deus as machine. He sees- the reconstruction of farming, not least of grain-farm-......