An Angling Lesson
My friend M. was most anxious to fish, but it was a chilly evening and my usual enthusiasm was missing. At length I agreed to visit the stream we had been talking about, a......
Virtues Neglected
SPECTATOR COMPETITION No. 219 Report by W. May-Byron Work is soon to begin on the restoration of the Albert Memorial. Temperance has a cracked head, Fortitude is broken and......
To Restore A Touch Of The Lyrical Now Lost To
our cities, competitors are invited (Pr M., usual prize of £5) to compose a street cry fop the vendor of one of the following comma. dities : a detergent, a home perm, a packet......
Hedge Sparrows While The House Sparrow Is A Loud-voiced And
impudent fellow who is wilfully destruc- tive—tearing leaves from the pear blossoms for the purpose of watching them drift away on the breeze—the hedge sparrow is a modest......
Sawfly Treatment
In addition to lime sulphur spraying which can be carried out until the fall of the apple or pear blossom, it is advisable to counteract sawfly with a nicotine, derris or......
Country Life
A ',Erma from the West Indies reminds me of my offer to introduce the owner of a mongoose to a correspondent troubled by grey squirrels. The writer feared that I was proposing......
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