7 JUNE 1935, page 16

A Lighthouse Observer An Astonishing Number Of Birds, And A

good many butterflies, have been seen, I hear, at some of the lighthouses this year ; and much valuable information has been gleaned. The birds not only fly round the......

A Farmers' Handbook • Another Good Thing Comes From Oxford,

from the farming department that is parented by the University and the Ministry of Agriculture. The first Agricultural Register (the name recalls William Cobbett) was issued......

*• * * • The Delicate Cuckoo

A number of very melancholy finds have been made by keepers and others in my part of the country. They have picked up the bodies of many dead birds, most of them cuckoos. The......

A Model Council • The Oxford Rural Community Council (in

this case co- operating with the Oxford Preservation Trust and with the central C.P.R.E.) are most successfully reviving merry England in most practical fashion. They are......

Tricolor Flax The Struggle To Instil New Colours Into Old

flowers has been so successful (witness the nemesia) that it has probably ceased to be true, as the old botanists claimed, that no genus produces all these primary colours. The......

Country Life

A Lancastrian Fair The old English Fair (as well as the village fete) is reviving in various forms ; and perhaps the best and merriest form yet discovered is to the credit of......

The Hedgehog's Fate

The only other large creature that I know to have perished of the cold was the hedgehog ; but that was earlier than the desperate frost of May 17th. Almost all creatures are a......

A Blackbird's Economy A Queer Little Coincidence In...

occurred to me this week. I had been reading (in the Field) an account of a blackbird which brought up two broods of young birds in the same nest, when the telephone rang. I......