29 OCTOBER 1927, page 14

Along Some Of Our Loveliest Valleys, Such As The Lea

Valley, and across favourite landscapes are now being erected the ornate gallows that are to carry cheap electricity into our country places. The benefit should be great ; and......

A Self-sufficing Home.

Now a good many countrymen as well as industrialists are feeling ' after this idea. One of the more interesting endeavours has been made in the Eastern Counties by a country......

Again, The Government Scheme Of Cottage Holdings Might...

adopted the attractive name of Homecroft. The idea is very much the same, that a producer of food from the land need not spend his whole time or even the chief part of his or......

Some While Ago It Would Have Been Scarcely Possible To

carry out the idea, at any rate in the October garden. But of recent years few flowers have been more radically improved and varied than Michaelmas daisies. They contain as many......

Everyone Who Cares For Birds Should Share The Interest Of

inventors in the prize of £100, offered by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, to anyone who shall find an efficient substitute for the caged bird as an agent for......

Country Life

Tr1E , first six .members of a colony of Homecrofters, originated by Professor Scott, are just going into residence " by Cheltenham. The group of allotment homes, if I may use......

A Most Novel Book—mostly Consisting Of Tables—was Written...

since by Mr. John Fothergill, artist, archaeologist, and now inn-keeper, on the colour of flowers in relation to date. It perfectly enables the gardener to map out his colour-......

More Crop-drying.

The question of crop-drying by artificial means, discussed in this place some weeks ago, begins to excite interest—my postbag tells me—in more than one European country. The......