C Rake And Bittern My Thoughts Are Brought Back To The
corn- c rake by a card from a North Yorkshire reader, " 0 says, 'In answer to what you say about er uerakes ; with which I very much agree. I r n e e' that I must suggest that......
Thr A)pectatot
OCTOBER 29, 1831 NEW COLONY IN AUSTRALIA.—In the absence of Parliamentary business, we have thought that we could not do better than devote a portion of our pages to the......
Fruit Storing Keeping Fruit Is A, Major Problem In A
year of plenty for the person normally accustomed to a meagre crop. The temperature of the store should be roughly 45° F., and apples and pears should first be left in heaps to......
New Novels
Tun crapulent, venal, cruel and variously vicious Englishman abroad is becoming almost a stock figure in current fiction. From the novelists' point of view this is......
Chess
WHITE to play and mate in two moves: solution next week. Solution to last week's problem by Latzel :R-B4 threat Q x B. 1 . . . Kt-K 3; 2 Q-K 5. 1 Kt-Kt 6; 2 R-B3. I B-K4; 2 R-K......
Country Life
By IAN NIALL ° VI:RTAKING a flock of sheep that had strayed on to the road the other day, I found myself In difficulty in getting past. When I came to a st andstill, the sheep......
Wind-sown Seeds
'There, in the windless night-time,' said A. E. Housman, in one of his lovely verses, 'the wanderer . . . halts . . . to harken how soft the poplars sigh,' and most of the time,......
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