26 JANUARY 1929, page 17

- * * * A Food Recipe.

A number of correspondents most kindly send the lost recipe for birds Which I asked for last week. The title of the) book is How to Attract and Protect Wild Birds (Witherby, ls.......

The Kew Badger.

The presence of a badger—and. foxes—in Richmond Park recalls the last appearance of a badger in Kew—in the summer of 1914. I have received a full account of its history from one......

A French Theory.

It is well said in one commercial broadsheet recently issued on the subject of sugar beet that " a further most valuable consideration is the increased fertility of the soil, as......

Much Of The Information About The Sufferings Of...

comes from the forty-one " watchers " employed by the R.S.P.B. They do yeoman service in a score of ways ; and it is quite true that the multiplication of " protected areas " by......

A Trapped Terrier.

The letter has the following postscript :— • " Since I wrote, a little Sealyhain terrier bitch Went off hunting With another 'terrier 'at ten o clodk in the morning. The other......

Clean Waters.

Th4i• best methods of prevention are very fully discussed iri the. 'Journal of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. The throwing out of oil is a gross waste as well as......

Country Life

A M.F.H.'s PROTEST. A LETTER full of facts and written by an ex-Master of Fox- hounds (whom I have regarded for many years as one of the very best naturalists of. my......

Sea Birds And The Navy. •

On the subject -of wild life on-our coasts all lovers of birds should be grateful to the Navy for their co-operation in pre- venting nuisance from waste oil. Action was hurried......