25 APRIL 1952, page 14

Protecting The Crop

Where frost prevails and early potatoes are due to come up it is go-2 to have material at hand to protect the crop. Small branches of ycv. , or laurel or old bracken do very......

Music

THE London Symphony Orchestra is having a remarkable and well- deserved success with its series of Beethoven concerts at the Festival Hall. On April 18th there was a packed......

Country Life

A THORN hedge seems to break into leaf overnight. One looks at it and notes that it is green, and it seems that yesterday it was still in bud and looking brown. Such a thing......

Tame Birds

Some men have a gift for inspiring confidence in animals and birds. 1 manage fairly well with horses and dogs, but birds have never shown any inclination to trust me although I......

Profit-sinking My Acquaintance Was Not A Man For Saying...

but his honest opinion. He had farmed for a long time when things were not so good, and now, when they were not so bad—with a margin for improve- ment—he was convinced that......

"tbespectator," Zprit 24t1j, 1852.

Slowly drifting down from the frozen seas of the North, to lose themselves in the waters towards the Equator, annually come vast herds of icy rocks; crags that would be immortal......

Dusk In The Wood Dusk Is The Time To Stand

in a wood, for when the shadows thicken the fox moves, the owl goes floating to and fro and birds come in to settle for the night. The little wood up the hollow is largely......