The Spectator
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A Paper. Preference A Dog Story—of The Tall Nature But
verified by successive trials—comes from a friend with much " corroborative detail." A spaniel, with some of whose previous feats I am familiar, was sent every day to fetch the......
Groundnut Cultivation
SIR, —Your contributor, Mr. Frank Sykes, in his arresting article, Pills for Groundnuts, calls attention to fertiliser experiments in the introduction of a superphosphate pellet......
Country Life
families arc small and few, in some large and many. This has been shown in surprising detail in certain enquiries into the ways of migrant wild duck. We have, I think, just......
Acre Or Hour ?
In the most thoughtful book I have read for years (Road to Survival) occurs a passage that should be well considered by our present-day theorists, and the American author......
In The Garden
The year begins for farmer and gardener not in the winter, or as Ovid desired in the spring, but in autumn (which, of course, is a sort of spring, a season of germination and......
Health Insurance Payments
SIR, —In the autumn of last year I asked a dressmaker, who works hard in a " one-woman " business, if she had had the holiday of which she looked in need. Her reply was that now......
The Hungarian Trials
SIR,—You say, in commenting on the Hungarian " treason " trials, " How the confessions are extracted is a matter of speculation, and there it must be left." But is that so ?......
Rain Versus Hose
The problem why rain is obviously more effective than any watering of garden plants seems to have exercised the wonder of a great many persons. The most plausible of the......
The Ashridge Affair
SIR,—Has Lord Davidson's conduct of the Ashridgc affair the approval of Conservative headquarters, and, if so, have the said authorities realised what a serious loss of votes......
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