Fruit And Frost.
Gardeners, anxious for their fruit, have had some curious surprises. Nearly all hoped and thought that the frosts were early enough not to have hurt the apple blossom which was......
Country Life
BIRDS AND PLANES. We are probably on the way to discover secrets of bird instinct and migration by help of the aeroplane, though the latest theory of aviators that birds are......
Quaker Habits.
The moral is that airmen will not penetrate the secrets of migration by inventing theories ; but they may very easily increase knowledge if they will consciously and......
Forlorn Plover.
I saw during the last week of April a salient illustration of one reason for the decrease—if there was a decrease—in numbers in the peewit or plover, now at last completely pro-......
Rates Versus Trees.
The abolition of rates on agricultural land and buildings will, like all changes, have minor influences rot foreseen. During this latest period of agricultural depression a......
The Parental. Instinct.
Two birds, one in the house, one in a neighbour's garden, are showing strange perversion of the parental instinct. One is a canary, which has for some while been sitting tight......
More Porulous Fields.
Travellers about England during the latter half of April may have been struck, if they were observant, by the unusual population of the fields. Quite a large number of farmers,......
The Homing Instrxer.
Birds differ in their manner of flight—in spite of the general likeness of one wing to another—almost as a monoplane from an airship. The gulls use the wings as a plane and are......
Previous page
