Country Life
A VILLAGE CRAFT. An expert engineer has been at work for some while, at the instance of the Rural Industries Bureau, in investigating uses for straw. Now a great deal of......
Birds And Verses.
On the same day that these bird lists appeared, I received a little pamphlet—" the first of a series on nature "—containing verses on birds and flowers, with accompanying-......
On Sheen Common.
Birds, of course, as we know in England, belong to town as well as country. An acquaintance of mine went for a January walk on Sheen Common, and besides many commoner birds, saw......
A Little Group Of Men Of Science Wish To Collect
all available evidence about winter thunderstorms. Some of us watched recently the most curious within our memory or records. Rain came up on the carriage of a stiff south-west......
Wasted Harvests.
In no other European country are quite so many products of potential value neglected as in England. It is recorded by a specialist—Mr. Bristowe Noble—that " for many years quite......
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STRAW AND PAPER. The making of pulp (as contrasted with paper or straw'. board) from straw requires no very heavy outlay ; and everyone will grant that, if the industry could be......
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LOCAL BIRD PROTECTION. * At last one good result has issued from the surrender of the Bird Protection Bill last session. Once again the chief local paper in most counties has a......
An Overworked Duck.
- it is recorded of a duck in New Zealand—a bird that worked three more days than a famous Canadian hen—that it laid' 885 eggs in 885 consecutive days. This example of -......
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