25 FEBRUARY 1955, page 14

Vermin Shooting It Is Some Time Since I Last Saw

a gamekeeper's 'larder.' There are fewer keepers and fewer garlic preserves where vermin are killed and strung up, but, in the days when such things were common, the owners of......

Artichokes Artichokes Are A Useful Vegetable To Have In The

garden. The Chinese should be planted in drills six inches deep, a foot between plants and two feet between rows. Jerusalem arti- chokes do better in light soil at a depth of......

Country Life

By IAN NIALL C 4 AN you tell me who is responsible for the removal of the carcases of diseased and decaying rabbits now that myxomatosis has done its deadly work?' writes a......

City And Suburban

me to the Surrey CC, but before admitting defeat I telephoned to the Estate Office of Dulwich College, which used to own a farm there, and said I wanted to send some sheep to......

Unusual Cures The Other Day A Friend Wrote To Tell

me about a man he knew who, when he was fishing in a remote part of Scotland, was accosted by a farmer with the request that he should provide him with a live trout to be used......