27 FEBRUARY 1942, page 14

Couni'ry Life The Subject Of Herbs Is Always Interesting To

the countryman, and u, almost every war certain herbs take on a new value. A plea for then culture is now reiterated. At the moment there seems to be a speciii need for......

In The Garden • The Most Eipert Grower Of Small

fruit that I kfrow insists 1/ 91 February is the one month when potash should be applied, and that it is particularly effective in the raspberry field-.-certainly his rasp -......

Our Present Need

Sta,—After more than two years of war, the Home Guard is still being lectured on "Ceremonial Guards" and exercised in presenting arms. Most of the men are in full-time......

Winter Immigrants I Was Told Over The Telephone The Other

day that the owner of some neighbouring farmland was amazed at the number and variety of gulls that were seen flying overhead, following the plough and even waiting for the......

Rat Or Stoat ?

The natural history of the cornstack (several of which I'have recently seen threshed) is very suggeative of what is often called the balance of nature—a nature, it must be......

Powers Of B.b.c. Governors

SIR, —Thank you for your note supporting my plea that indepena- ence of the governors of the B.B.C. should be maintained as far as possible in war-time, more especially in......

Milk Wastage

Sin,—It seems a pity that the Minister of Food has disregarded in his scheme the hundreds of small farmers in outlying districts who can supply milk from surplus from time to......

A Plan For Education

snt,—Is seems to me that one vital point has been missed throughout the correspondence on "A Plan for Education." If the Public School education is the best available, as all......

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