6 AUGUST 1937, page 18

Country Life

The Quality of Galloway Some of the very loveliest and most interesting scenery in Scot- land is found in Galloway and the Southern Highlands, which have never enjoyed the full......

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A Veteran Canary A charming member of one Scottish household is a blind canary, which has inhabited its present quarters for fifteen years ; and was a fully grown bird in full......

A Strange Harnessing Much Of This Glorious Country Is...

very rapid change by reason of several new activities ; and they are exercising and likely to exercise an unexpected influence on wild life. For the sake of linking up northern......

Vulpine Vermin

How widely the reputation of animals varies in response to their neighbourhood ! In England everywhere the fox is still almost sacrosanct. In West Ireland and in West Scotland......

Alien Trees

The land as well as the rivers in Galloway are at the beginning of a great change. A very large area has come into the posses- sion of the Forestry Commission ; and most of it......

Salmon Ladders For The Salmon In General Ladders, So Called,

are provided ; and these are of a strange variety. Some are by-passes of three- quarters of a mile or so in length ; and in no case is the salmon asked to ascend by rungs, so to......

Uneasy Fish They Have Appreciated The Efforts, But It Is

alleged their nature has been altered by the new conditions. The height of the river varies with great rapidity according to the activity of the turbines for whose sake the......