Sir, — In These Days Many Are Criticised For Demanding...
for less work. Mr. Simmance not merely supports, but deifies, this prin- ciple. All he -wants from the pools, he unblushingly tells us, is to get £75,000 for no work at all. He......
Nip Rat - Catcher Jack Is Rat-catcher In A Neighbouring...
met him hurrying to one of his jobs, carrying bait-traps and leading his terriers. He is proud of his calling, and ready to impart information on the subject of rats. "Rats is......
Here The Fences And Hedges Are Bad, Particularly On The
hillier places. Farmers go round stopping holes with anything they can find: Often they cut down a blackthorn and push it into a gap, or lop branches from the nearest tree. A......
Forest And Fire Danger
Conifer trees have been planted on the sides of the mountains, and grow thickly there in places where it is hard to see how they obtain enough nutriment from the thin layer of......
Leek - Planting
Leeks are a valuable vegetable and useful for more than broth- making. They do best in rich soil; should be planted with a dibble and puddled in. Give them plenty of room, and......
Old Catalogues
When I was a boy, one of the delights of life was in looking through farm-catalogues supplied by seedsmen and the makers of cattle- medicines. The latter provided great......
Adoption Today
have read with interest your reviewer's comments, in your issue of June 6th, on my new nook, Adoption in the Modern World, and I hope it is not too late to correct one or two......
Keats In Hampstead
SIR,—Mr. Nicolson writes of the terrible haemorrhage which befell Keats on February 3rd, 1820. But was it so ? Nothing in Keatsian literature is more familiar than Charles......
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