13 JULY 1956, page 29

Strawberry Care

and finally put in a permanent place during next month. If the original plants are not of the top quality and healthy, the labour is likely to be wasted, and it is as well to......

Feeding 'daws

Jackdaws are not exactly my favourite bird (one must live with birds to know them, and we know the black ones!) and I can understand farmers getting incensed about them to the......

Country Life

BY IAN NIALL IT is raining at the moment and, as usual, I can .hear, through the open door of my room, the steady beat of the downpour on the sky- light. There is something......

Omer-men

'We took a pair of otters last week,' the Fishery Superintendent told me when I visited him a day or two ago. These otters were not, however, the whiskered and playful sort, but......

Chess

BY PHILIDOR No. 58. Specially contributed by C. MANSFIELD 1 . K x Kt eh; One of the great figures in chess—both as a player and as a personality—in this century was Dr. Savielly......