Country Life
A Diviner's Problem It is no wonder in a drought so long drawn out as this summer's that the dowser or diviner is working overtime. Whether belief in his art is increasing is......
Devon Bird-watchers A Model For All Bird Societies Is...
by the annual report of Devon Bird-watching and Preservation Society. Apart from its general excellence as a record of the collated observation of a number of skilled and......
The Tale Of Rarities We Hear From Sportsmen Of "
record bags." The bagged records of this Devon society are much more honourable: They include for one year the appearance of such rarities as the kite, the eagle owl, the......
Cottage Wells The Drought Has More Or Less Broken, But
both dowsers and well-borers in country places will be in high demand for many months ; the springs cannot recover under three or four months at the very least. What is not......
• * * The Woodpecker's Chisel
A photograph has just been sent me which I took to be an illustration of a new bird box. It is a section of a post, pre- sumably creosoted, that carried a three-phase circuit of......
A Craftsman Poet
Among village craftsmen, a notable place is taken by Mr. H. A. Shelley, of whose work in elm wood, a feature of a recent agricultural show at Oxford, something was said at the......
Elm Panels
Half our younger architects are in love with elm. What colour, what grain, and in the right place what hardness ! We have wasted the wood, and still waste it, more prodigally......
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