2 NOVEMBER 1934, page 16

Country Life

Just Devon It is an old claim that Devon rhymes with heaven, most appropriately ; and Devonshire people are beginning to protest against the growing habit of adding a syllable......

Carnivorous Squirrels

A certain rough motor shed set up at the edge of a park has for some reason attracted a ntunber of rats, which have honey. combed the place with holes. The owner, coming to get......

The Vanishing Chough

A project is on foot to reintroduce the chough, which is one of our disappearing birds, to favourite haunts in or about Britain. The bird is found in great numbers (one......

First Frosts

The first frosts, beneficently postponed till the eve of November, changed our world more abruptly than is common in this land and clime of quiet gradations. The elms had been......

Migrant Pheasants

Are pheasants stay-at-homes ? The local hunts all assert that they return to the home wood however severely dis- turbed. The shooting man is not so sure. A farmer, who is not......

Summer's Relics

It is the amiable habit of some gardeners to make a list of the flowers in bloom on November 1st. I have seen a list of sixty odd compiled in a cottage garden of small......

Immigrant Butterflies

At a time when all the world is wondering at oversea flights by airmen, some attention is due to a trans-Atlantic flight that is not less incredible. For the second year a good......

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Hungry Bees It has been a bad year for the collection of honey, and quite a number of people have sent me evidence of a new habit in the hive bee. In Suffolk, as in......