Antidote
A Malvern reader offers a suggestion on the treatment of ants and remarks, 'My daughter was hedge-clipping a short time ago—standing on a kitchen chair in order to reach-the......
Grease Bands Winter Moths Are Counteracted By Grease •...
with strips of sacking six inche s or so in width. A heavy grease should be use d and it is a good plan to renew this grease from time to time in case it hardens and allows the......
Fieldfares Return
There is not quite the same thrill in noting the arrival of winter migrants as there is i n discovering that the first swallows hav e reached us, that the wheatear is on the......
Country Life
BY IAN NIALL Comm down a tree is such a positive thing —the tree cannot be put back, nor can it be replaced in much less than thirty years—that anyone who is fond of trees feels......
New Novels
F RANK BAKER'S originality in dealing with the marvellous lies i0 his use of outlandish facts, possibilities, innuendoes, and su Pernatural whispers of all sorts, in perfectly......
The Mad Hatter
Heads and Tales, by Aage Thaarup (Cassell, 21s.), is the story of a young man who learnt hat-making the hard way, rose to great eminence in his profession, designing hats not......
Northern Europe
mill this fourth volume, East Norway and its Frontier (Allen and Unwin. 25s.), Frank Noel Stagg has covered all Norway in his series of histories; they are based on wide......
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