Rural Crafts.
- Excellent accounts reach me of the sale of county crafts- men's work organized by the Rural Industries Bureau. In a previous reference to the enterprise the address was......
Country Life
ELMS AND THE GALE. In the great gale of Saturday last many trees crashed that were thought to be sound. In one particular case a forester who had previously tapped his trees......
Little Harvests.
It is remarkable how many little opportunities are offered to the ingenious countryman who may be out of work of picking up unconsidered trifles. I have come upon men digging up......
County Defence. . - • - It Is No Wonder
that the counties are beginning to organize systems of self-defence. Hertfordshire . and • Leicestershire have passed a stringent law utterly forbidding the uprooting of wild......
Tiireatened Hedges.
All the damage was not due to stress of weather. Some of our country hedges are being ravaged with much thorough- ness by emissaries from the market gardens and nurseries. There......
Farming Progress.
On more than one occasion I have lamented the rapid fall in the price of land, and recorded that considerable estates in the Midlands can be bought at • £5 or £6 an acre, houses......
Tributes To November.
In spite of storm and the fury of what the unscientific still call the elements, ecstatic tributes to the softness of November are contributed from all quarters. But it is not......
A Neglected Industry.
How is it that the nurserymen are " caught short " of stocks ? The truth is that in England we habitually and grossly neglect the cultivation of stocks, not only of briar but of......
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