Country Life
Land-Experiment There are many market-gardens ; few which have any value as experiments in land-regeneration. A week or two ago -I mentioned Captain IL G. M. Wilson's pamphlet,......
Frozen Wages
Sin,—Popular discontent is liable to arise not so much from a universally diminished standard of living as from social inequities which result from war-time finance. Recent......
In The Garden Start A Compost-heap. The Compost-heaps At...
estate are elaborate affairs—large pits, brick-drained, with systems of ventila- tion and light railways to bring up the waste-produce and take back the resultant compost to the......
Will To Live
Painful is life to all that dies, and stern the living word " Arise," the banishment, the angel's sword that makes the grave our only peace. My life is yours to take, not mine......
Produce And Prices As Sir George Stapledon Has Pointed Out,
any revolution in farming must come from the land itself. Politicians, .who know generally little about agriculture and care less, have always delighted in the stock-answer, "......
War-time Sport Sir,—may I Be Permitted, In Reply To Mr.
W. M. Lodge's challenge, to say that, of course, I am not opposed to war-time sport except when it is overdone? I had hoped that when the climax of the professional- football......
" Muddle, Mess And Make-believe " Sir,—in Fairness To The
Food Controller, the suggestion that he shows more regard to vested interests than knowledge of working- class budgets is rather wide of the mark. Some of the best years of Fred......
The Triumph Of The Cat At This Time Of The
year, when young plants of all sorts are betng set out, rabbits are perhaps the country gardener's greatest nuisance. There are few rabbit-proof plants, many protective......