27 APRIL 1956, page 37

Jackdaw Tragedy

House-hunting is not only a problem for humans. Birds seem to have the same trouble, and some of them face it every spring. I have been watching a pair of jackdaws trying to......

Dressed To Kill After The 1914-18 War A Number Of

farm workers wore old army tunics. They made satisfactory working jackets even if they didn't quite blend with more conventional clothing. One looked at those tunics, tattered......

Aphis Remedies

Aphis of one sort or another is the night- mare of many a gardener, for greenfly and blackfly are to be found on all sorts of plants and trees. Nicotine and derris are among the......

Country Life

BY IAN NIALL tI ,ERE is some official concern, I read, about 'e security of rabbit hutches. It may be that i careless and irresponsible person will g ild loose his tame rabbits......

Chess

By PHILIDOR No. 47. .1. HARTONG • BLACK (5 men) WHITE ('I men) WHITE to play and mate in two moves: solution next week. From 'Selected with Comments' in The Problemist, January,......