Another Admirer Of The Aberdeen-angus, Writing Of Stock...
pigs and horses as well as cattle, gives much evidence of the advance of Poland in agricultural matters ; and the desire of its farmers for English stock. There is long......
It Is, I Think, Evidence Of Enjoyment Of A Book
that it stimulates criticism ; so by way of praise be it said that he seemed to me to support much too strongly the popular, but quite fallacious view, that February songs are a......
Country Life
HORSE OR TRACTOR ? Two letters, one direct, one indirect, have reached me from Canada, urging me to insist on the superiority of the horse to the tractor. One farmer says : "......
A Question Of Longevity.
It has been claimed more than once that Ireland is a great country for the lengthening of life ; and this virtue seems to be extended to domestic animals as well as man. There......
Some Country People In Oxfordshire, It Is Said, Attribute...
crime of egg-stealing to hedgehogs, and believe that they carry off the eggs on their backs, presumably fixed on a spine Hedgehogs are greatly disliked by keepers, and......
A Nature Calendar.
A charming Nature Calendar, just published by an artist with a seeing eye, Mr. E. F. Dagleish (Dent and Sons), opens with the obvious mendacity that January is a " cold ungenial......
On The Great Wheat Controversy In England, Which Is Now
inclining heavily against grain-growing, there is only one opinion in Alberta. " Wheat is the one factor on which the prosperity of Canada depends," writes one farmer from......
An Egg-stealing Stoat.
It has long been a mystery how eggs are removed by various vermin. I have seen unbroken ducks' eggs by a fox's earth and considerable collections of undamaged hens' eggs, and in......
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