19 JANUARY 1940, page 21

War-time Suggestions

Form a village production group or allotment association. Plant plenty of Jerusalem artichokes. They yield heavily and will grow anywhere. Do not save by omitting to buy and......

Federal Un Ion

SIR,—It would not serve any useful purpose to dwell upon the offensive air of condescending superiority with which, in your last issue, Mr. Harold Nicolson deals with Federal......

Disturbed Migrants Geneva Is Likely To Become Only Less...

for its birds than its politicians. The latest meeting there coincided with a rare influx of birds from the far North, probably from both Finland and Russia. Fortunately one......

Country Life

A New Complexion The scenery of England will be a good deal altered by the war. More timber is being cut, factories are being ingeniously converted into pleasances, a deal of......

Birds In War-time British And German Phenologists, As...

themselves, kept up a correspondence throughout the last war, though this corner of science is narrow and perhaps not very prolific. An endeavour, so far successful, is being......

Lynchings In 1939 Sta,—i Send You The Following...

lynch- ings for the year 1939. I find, according to the reports compiled in the Department of Records and Research, that there were three persons lynched in 1939. This is three......

Russian Bees

Russian men of science, who are among the most ingenious researchers into animal psychology, are alleged to have made a curious advance in the training of hive bees to a useful......