2 JUNE 1939, page 19

The Extinction Of Foxes On The Subject Of Humanitarianism A

pamphlet has just been reissued, The Cruelty called Sport. That sport has cruelty in it no honest sportsman can deny. At the same time, no honest humanitarian can deny that......

Rural Bias The Best Attempt That I Know Of To

impart the rural bias to schoolchildren is being made in a secondary school at Burford in Oxfordshire. Parallel forms are arranged for all boys between fourteen and sixteen,......

The New Fence

Not once or twice within the last week or two I have come upon that new form of fencing, the live wire. It is used on one famous farm, a place of frequent pilgrimage for......

Country Life

A Great Centenary It is a hundred years since the first Royal Agricultural Show was held; and this year's centenary show in Windsor Park should interest historians as well as......

In The Garden

An amateur gardener seriously assures me that last year's red tulips have come up yellow this May! Tulips of course do strange things: they " sport " and they " break." The......

The Birds' Trust Lovers Of Birds Do Not, I Think,

nourish a sufficient interest in the British Trust for Ornithology. It was formed only four years ago, and has done everything well, except perhaps its own publicity. Societies......

It Is Also A Hundred Years Since The Scottish Society

for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals came into being. Though both the English and Irish societies were founded earlier, the date may be called historical. The Scottish......