24 FEBRUARY 1956, page 28

Seed Bans

Preparatory work such as the making of a seed bed is advisable even when a gardener is mainly concerned with getting his plot dug unless, of course, everything to be planted is......

A Salmon Astray If The Migration Of Birds Is One

of nature's great mysteries, as great a one is the behaviour of migratory fish. There is nothing mysterious about the departure from the river of spent fish but the reason for......

Squirrel Harriers

I read not long ago of a squirrel being chased along the ground and up a tree by a stoat. The squirrel proved too good for the stoat in the tree but it was, of course, rather......

Country Life

BY IAN MALL THERE are many winter occupations in the country that are carried on in the shelter of steading and barn and only a few that are plainly on view. Of these I have......

Chess

By PHILIDOR BLACK (10 men) WHITE (11 men) C. MANSFIELD (1st Pr Isl ize ° , 1 E 38 1 Ajedrea Argentina, 1926) WHITE to play and mate in 2 moves: solution next week. Solution to......