30 NOVEMBER 1951, page 14

In The 'nineties

A London doctor of medicine writes me on the theme that " a healthy soil produces a healthy nation." He tells me that his father's farm of 100 acres, old fashionedly husbanded,......

Cinema 46 I 'want You." (leicester Square.)—" The Light...

(Empire.)—" My Favourite Spy." (Carlton.) I Want You, a fine and strangely affecting film directed by Mr. Mark Robson, who directed that rather finer and more affecting picture......

Music

MANCHESTER has now completed the restoration of its famous Free Trade Hall, and has baptised it with nine concerts. Two of them were given by the Hamburg Radio Symphony......

Wild Hunters

With what regret I found dead in one of my rat-traps not the villain of the piece which had been stealing my potatoes but a full-grown stoat spruce in chestnut and white !......

The Game - Keeper's Gibbet Of All The Traditional...

of the contemporary scene I deplore the gamekeeper the least. What a barbarous exhibition the decomposing corpses of the " larder "! His absence not only gives a chance of......

Country • Life

I wAs drawn magnetically for one last look at the autumnal finery of the south-western Chilterns before winter's defoliation replaced colour with form. -I found myself at the......

In The Garden

Sir David Russell writes to ask me by what means I can maintain heavy crops of healthy fruit without spraying or artificials. I have kept geese in my orchard over many years for......