A Little Migrant.
German papers please copy ! The poor remnants of a small dark-feathered bird have been found in the Belgian Congo : and on one of its legs is an aluminium ring marked " Biolog :......
More Little Harvests.
A number of examples: may be added to some of the " little harvests " suggested last week. We are said to spend £100,000 a year on imported Parma violets, though these are grown......
New Seeds.
Not only the nurseryman shares in this quite lucrative form of production. The depression in Suffolk is deep, and many, farms are. .on : . the market . at absurdly low figures,......
A Tame Heron.
Twice within the last year or so I have met .water-wardens who confessed to shooting herons ; and at one stream—in Shropshire—I came upon the dead body of the bird left lying......
Autumn Or Spring ?
- In many parts of England to-day, but especially in Devon- shire, gardeners complain that their bulbs, particularly the tulips, have gone mad." Many are already as much as two......
Country Life
FARMERS AND LABOURERS. Last week I came up against the most cheery examples of- the inherent vitality of the British farmer. It was in Norwich, and at the very centre of the......
Buying The Best.
In the centre of this atmospheric depression I asked the agent of a famous seed merchant whether these losses on the farm seriously affected his bUsiness. He said : " On the......
How Lar.the World's Wealth May Be Increased By The Prods
that. science gives.to. evolution is an engaging subject.. There are men alive who have. worked long enough. to test results. They have done an aeon's work within a generation......
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