The Potato Patch
Earth up early potatoes after weeding between the rows. It helps to aerate the soil, and encourages the spreading of tubers if the ground is well forked before drawing up the......
Homing Instincts
A farmer near here bought a sheepdog last November and lost it on the first day of April. He heard last week that it-had returned home, - covering a distance of about sixty......
Music
THE Royal Philharmonic Society's concert at the Festival Hall on May 14th was a disappointment and remains a mystery. Rafael .Kubelik, billed to conduct a largely Slavonic......
Country Life
FRIENDSHIPS between animals of different kinds are inexplicable hap- penings, but always fascinating. Perhaps this is so because they give free rein to the imagination. Someone,......
Growing Stones
In stony country almost every field has its stone-heap. It may be bramble-covered, lost in weed or thistle, but it is there, a home for the stoat or a snake, and generations of......
Ballet
The Yugoslav State Company. • (Cambridge Theatre.) AFTER the last exhibition of folk-dancing at the Cambridge Theatre, I must confess I was not wildly excited at the idea of......
A Chaffinch's Nest
The nest of a waterhen, a sort of raft of woven rushes, has beauty about it, and even the scrape of a plover, when the eggs are laid, is a delight; but for sheer artistic wonder......
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