5 DECEMBER 1931, page 13

Country Life

A GI:NJ:Rocs BENEFAcrou. Many people spend large suns on farming, but few endow it. In this small body of benefactors is Sir Horace Plunkett, who most generously established the......

Such Arguments Cannot Be Thrust Aside Off-hand. My...

inclined, I infer, to condemn just one animal, the little owl, in part because he found a nest to be " a perfect shambles of blackbirds' legs, &e." He noticed too, as most......

My Correspondent Makes The Point That The Worst Enemy Of

nesting birds is the motor-car. "I saw one pathetic case this summer where a car knocked down an English partridge when accompanied by its mate and killed it. The other bird......

The Model Butcher.

Farmers, and yet more vitally consumers. should be concerned as to the latest evidence (roost of it condensed in a lecture to the Model Abattoir Society during the week) on one......

Cheap Land.

On the price of land I have quoted from time to time many examples of the loss of value on the heavy clay soils of the Midlands and Essex, and on the chalk of Wiltshire and......

The Squirrel And Tile Sanctuary.

I amaikeitbya naturalist greatly interested in a particular bird sanctuary near London to pronounce on the grey squirrel. Shall it be a Peri, forbidden the sanctuary, under pain......

The Dowser's Mystery.

The mystery of the divining rod appears to be agitating public opinion on the Continent as well as in England. In France societies and journals have been started, the evidence......