These Cottages Are Not Exceptional. Many Worse Examples...
quoted. I give them merely because they were presented to my eyes this week. Any sort of repair or im- provement, however necessary for the comfort or the health of the......
Another Pamphlet From The Same Research Station• (for...
deals with farm engineering for the Ministry) concerns the surprising subject of windmills as a source of electrical energy. It seems that a certain disillusionment as to the......
Woodcock At Home.
This season has been peculiarly rich in the discovery of individual migrations : new light has been thrown on the winter journeys of starlings (from Germany), of teal (from......
Country Life
RACK RENT COTTAGES. Few people, even among those possessed of incurably urban minds, will deny that the reconstruction of village life would do Britain infinite service. Recent......
All Who Are Concerned With Modern Farming Will Welcome The
Farm Economist, a little green-covered magazine—if the word is not too big—to be published monthly by the Agri- cultural Economics Research Institute of Oxford University, in......
Winter Shrubs.
A succession of moderately mild winters has greatly increased the popularity of the winter flowering shrub in English' gardens. Viburnum fragrans—sweetest of all—becomes a rival......
Birds And Campers.
It is not only, perhaps not chiefly in England, that the people grow careful about the preservation of their country's beauty. New Zealand, especially, has shown much foresight.......
A Special. Sanctuary.
I should like to see a -woodcock sanctuary. The bird is curiously particular about his resorts and can be easily attracted by supplying the right conditions. He is a born......