The Value Of Speed The Farmer Was Absurdly Optimistic—for A
farmer. His view was that the speed of the work reduced costs even more than might be inferred by comparison with a horse-drawn single plough, largely because of the chance it......
* * * * A Militant Beauty Some Of The
"fancy pheasants," including this melanistic mutant and the Japanese Versicolor may be regarded_ as `not unwelcome additions ; but there is one sort, introduced fur purely......
Country Life
A Christmas Farm In one of the neatest and most charming of his verses E. V. L. wrote, so far as I remember : "Suppose that while the motor pants You miss the nightingale " But......
A Rhodesian Model The Question Of National Parks In This
island is to be taken up again ; but Scotland is the only possible scene for a Park of proper size and wildness : the phrase hardly belongs to an old and small country., What......
New Pheasants
I have had a good deal of ocular evidence this year of the difference of habit between some of the newly " invented " and imported birds, and on more or less native varieties.......
A New Word'
' Not . only the Minister of Agriculture is striving to produce standard products.. - the asiobiated nrillers some while ago advertised for a new *Ord: It Was to describe the......
A Traveller In Plants
Almost the last of the travellers in plants (since the original firm of Veitch ceased to be) is Mr. Kingdon Ward, hardly less great as a geographer than as botanist. Close......
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