31 AUGUST 1934, page 16

Crop Drying Further Evidence Of The Spread Of Crop Drying,

as a regular part of farm routine and of the improvement in the processes, is to be gathered from experiences of this year's harvest. British pioneers of the South Acre Drying......

No Species Of Garden Flower Has Increased Its Range—or Its

size—more obviously than the Zinnia ; but I found, rather to my surprise, that one of the greatest specialists in this flower agreed with me that the rage for size might......

" Frenchmen "

The English partridge is a wild English bird, not exclusively British like the grouse, but altogether at home with us when unprotected and in wild condition& The experts can......

Country Life

The First If a schoolboy were asked in a general intelligence paper -: "To what month does The First' belong " he would certainly say " September." Why we should all know the......

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New Flowers Though its fantastic supremacy has perhaps waned a little, that invincible annual the sweet pea continues to improve. At recent' shows gorgeous bouquets were shown......

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A Dowser's Experiment A quite new experiment in dowsing, or divining, is sent me by an experimenter. The dowser put the handle ends of the rods into bottles and held the bottles......

A New Sanctuary

A little jut of land by Wembury Point in South Devon has been known for years as a favourite refuge for birds, especially migrants, though some of the rarer home-keeping birds......

Vanishing Partridges ?

An alarm has been raised, distressing to the naturalist as to the sportsman, that the tribe is dwindling. It is true that the species peculiarly delight in high arable farming......