Winter Warblers
A controversy, of which signs :have appeared in many places, has been stirred by the announcement that the black- cap, a characteristic migrant, has wintered in South England.......
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The strange story told last week of the battle of swalloWs and swifts at the St. Joseph mission in California is not stranger than a second tale told in a technical magazine of......
A Correction
In a recent note some account was given of a cure for apple scab. Scab, the very -worst of the fruit's maladies, appeared as scale, which is of less account. It would be a pity......
The Hedge-layer Near My Home The Other Day I Went
out to see a specialist in hedge-laying demonstrate before school children and local craftsmen. He told me in incidental talk that he had been in Essex and had never had so many......
Omnivorous Virtues
Now perhaps the chief cause of the invincibility of the grey squirrel is its readiness to eat any sort of food. In South America (as Buffon recorded long ago) it proved a......
Country Life
An Easter Bourne If anyone wishes to see a beautiful thing at Easter time, he could scarcely make a mistake in visiting any district where the plum tree is cultivated ; and the......
More Brown Squirrels
Two attempts have been, and are being, made to multiply the brown native English squirrel, which is thought to have suffered at the hands of the transplanted grey. It is......
The Toll Of The Roads Most Motorists In The Country
have perhaps noticed this spring the abnormal number of victims of the Juggernaut wheel. One reason has been the excessive multiplication of the rabbit and the early breeding of......
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