3 FEBRUARY 1939, page 17

Cantankerous Thrushes

Two examples within the week have to be recorded of the strange effect of snow on the moral character of the missel thrush. In one garden a great hubbub was heard, and was found......

West Australian Charms

Until large-scale land reclamation and homestead build- ing becomes economically possible, far the best method is child emigration, accompanied with a life that ensures the "......

A Great Bird-lover

The whole company of English naturalists will grieve greatly at the death of Dr. Sydney Long. He was more than a good and ardent observer. He was a pioneer in the art and craft......

Country Life

Ingenious Meals Hunger, if not necessity, is the mother of inventiveness. As scon as snow or frost covers up or shuts off supplies of food r ah birds and beasts find out new......

In The Garden Several Critics Of The Garden Have Been

lamenting English conservatism in the potager or vegetable garden. The charge has a general truth, but a very large proportion of the vegetables that have more or less......

Little Empire Migrants

Every month in this year a number of children from our overcrowded towns will go out to one of the Fairbridge Farm Schools in Australia or Canada. The scale of this form of......