27 AUGUST 1954, page 16

Spectator Competition No. 237 Set By Tom Bowling Mr. Petrov

has revealed that the Russians have a Disinformation Service, whose task is the dissemination of misleading information. A prize of £5 is oftered JOr an extract from the report......

Birds And Light ' I Wonder' If You Could Explain

the behaviour of a blackbird which has nested near my house ?' writes a Coventry reader. Recently a continual tapping on the window attracted my attention. It was the male bird......

A Hedgehog's Behaviour An Item About A Hedgehog Comes In

a letter from Mr. W. A. Thomson of Newtonmore, Inverness, and bears out my belief that, with animals not accustomed to being hunted or injured by man, it is the jerky or excited......

Country Life

As far away as New England they know the summer kitten, I am told by Mr. Earl Daniels of the Department of English, Colgate Uni- versity, Hamilton, N.Y. His grandmother used to......

Bulb Compost It Is A Good Plan To Prepare Bulb

compost in advance so that it Is matured and ready for use when the time comes to put bulbs in bowls and pots. Coarse silver sand is a good constituent with peat moss, light......

Utopia At Your Door

SPECTATOR COMPETITION No. 234 Report by Allan 0. Waith SPECTATOR COMPETITION No. 234 Report by Allan 0. Waith An American ballad, 'The Big Rock Candy Mountains,' gives a picture......