Country Life

By IAN NIALL KISSING is not in season, the old saying runs, when the gorse is not in bloom. This being the time when the young man's fancy fondly turns to thoughts of love, it......

Witch Doctor Wanted

The mystery of the gravel mounds, about which I wrote a short time ago, is not confined to Hamp- shire, where the trouble was reported. An Edinburgh reader remarks on a like......

Chess

By PHILIDOR No. 96. M. LIPTON (Die Schwalbe, Sept. 1955) BLACK (3 men) ti WHITE (12 men) WHITE to play and mate in two moves: solution next week. Solution to last week's problem......

Grass Harvest There Has Been A Great Increase In...

in Wales, it is reported. This is not by any means a new agricultural process. Silage towers are, in fact, almost as much part of the rural landscape in some places as Dutch......

Int Apettator

APRIL 7, 1832 FROM Sze-chuen we hear that thirty-three vagabond lawyers, who stir up litigations, have been taken into custody, and arc forthwith to be punished.......

The Marrow Bed

Good marrows are only grown on a well-prepare0 bed and the best way to enrich ground for marrows, when manure is scarce, is to dig into it, in good time, as much lawn-mowing......