2 JUNE 1928, page 14

A Tame Woodpecker.

In the balcony of one of the most charming country houses I know, with a great historic past, a tray for the birds is laid every day for their own good and the pleasure of an......

Sense Of Direction.

The always enthralling secret, how animals find their way, has been engaging the attention of the French ; and one-of these much too logical men of science has written in a de-......

Dorset And Herts.

This tribute is immediately prompted by two recent experienceS, one with the Hertfordshire Institute of Agri- culture, known as " Oaklands," near St. Albans, the other with a......

The Way To Market.

On this subject a virtue in the National Farmers' Union may be quoted to put against the very unvirtuous activities i n the narrow field of politics. In co-operation with the......

Country Life

THE COUNTRYMAN'S FRIEND. It is time - that someone paid proper tribute to the County Instructor, generic and particular, in rural art and science. I find a curious beast on the......

An Elm Mystery.

Countrymen have been warned that a new , and terrible enemy has come over from the Continent and begun to attack the elm-trees, which on the Continent fall before it like nine-......