30 JUNE 1928, page 13

The Greedy Mouse.

The experiment proved that the great destroyers of seed are mice and birds. Protection against either increased the number of seedlings: Protection against both multiplied them......

Children As Farmers.

Quite a large number of experiments in some sort of rural education are being made in England, most of them neither seeking nor receiving any advertisement. They are being......

Country Life

A WIRE-CUTTING HEDGEHOG. An unsuspected culprit has just been discovered in the per- petration of a crime which had been attributed to the human boy. Several holes were found in......

A West Australian Model.

The scheme especially interests me because—in its relation to migration within the Empire, or what we wrongly call emigration—its aim is group settlement on the model created by......

On This Head I Cannot But Think That The Forestry

Com- mission nurse certain natural history fallacies and are too • drastic in their judgments. They have been roundly attacked in Scotland for condemning and destroying even......

Where Seeds Vanish.

The justification for condemning the jay and other birds, including the crossbill, is the verdict from a number of prac- tical experiments of real interest. Characteristic bits......

The Afforester's Index.

Afforesters have incidentally discovered a number of nice points in natural history. For example, a two-inch mesh has proved quite useless against young rabbits, which can......

Haysel And Harvest.

The hay harvest scents the air of the greater part of South England. The fragrant crops, cut rather early in response to modern theory, are light ; but for that reason are......