Country Life
ALmosT the last of the old country mills within a wide district of the Home and Eastern Counties has just been dismantled. I know only of one that continues ; and its activities......
An Albino Bum.
A sparrow with a completely white head (mimicking a bald-headed eagle) has been seen by a correspondent, who asks whether such things happen, or whether he should consult an......
* * * * The Extinction Of These Mills Is
a disaster to local farmers, and consummates a movement that gives imported grain a very heavy preference over British. The biggest and most efficient mills are nearly all found......
Bird's Response To Storm.
The grim excesses of weather under which we have suffered have influenced the local movements of birds more than the general migration ; or so it seems to me. The swallows and......
Age, Of Course, Has Settled The Question Here And There.
A mill that has inspired a hundred artists stood the other day across the water from a little island in the Ouse at Godmanchester. It lasted for a long while after its proper......
Icarnsu Farm Machines.
Something was said in this place last week about the arti- ficial drying of crops, especially by a landowner and farmer in Cheshire. The British experiments are, I understand,......
* * * * I Wonder Whether The Sacrifice Was
necessary, or was due to a wrong conception of the value of local, of parochial wealth. Village people still need a local mill to compound their chicken and pig food, and small......
Inherited Colour.
Colour is a freakish thing. On one Welsh hillside this year great numbers of white blue-bells made a surprising appear- ance ; and the white hare-bells on a Hertfordshire common......
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