7 APRIL 1928, page 13

Little Afporestations.

A number of questions have come' to me about the wisdom of planting small areas—an acre here, an acre there—with trees. In the pumice areas of New Zealand anyone who pleases may......

The Countryman, In A Commentary On " The Extraordinary...

of letters which the Spectator . . . has evoked from Masters of Hunts," quotes an ingenious letter from a hunting man. He writes :— • " I sometimes wonder if fox hunting ought......

A Climbing Weasel.

Both stoats and weasels are fond of playing the squirrel. I once saw a weasel run up the wall of a three-storied house and at the top disappear along the gutter. It would not......

Country Life

A. COUNTRY WALK. How vividly, apart from any particular point or importance, small incidents of observation may mirror themselves on the retina of the memory. I was walking the......

Some Interesting Addenda To Some Spectator Themes Have...

the Field and the Countryman. The Field, whose chief subject is sport, has only one objection to the method of the onslaught on pigeon shooting at Monte Carlo : it was not hot......

The Expensive Rat.

It is a point in natural history worth the investigation of keepers, farmers, and any owner of country property how far the presence of weasels means the absence of rats. I have......

The Lively Editor Of This Lively Quarterly—the First Ever...

in an English village—has been engaged in an original duel that is of concern to all country people. He gave, on the invitation of the B.B.C., a series of agricultural Talks on......