A Fastidious Donkey.
Is there not some silly saying about a donkey being called an ass because he prefers thistles to cherry pie ? In case anyone should continue to condemn the palate of the donkey......
This General Troth Nevertheless Does Not Carry The...
extracted by politicians. That one or two farmers succeed in the midst of a bankrupt community does not necessarily mean that the rest might succeed if they were as able and......
An Observer, With A Long Experience On Both Sides Of
the Atlantic, sends me a comment on emigrating birds which fits my personal experience. It concerns the comcrake. The species was very scarce in England, killed according to one......
Here Is Another Query For The Aviculturist. Is It In
any way possible to rear young swallows that have lost their parents? The effort is being made ; but the most difficult subjects of all are birds which feed, as swallows feed,......
If Anyone Of Urban Mind Desires To Admire Our Farmers
he should go to such a district as this. They have retreated only from untenable positions. Nowhere could you find finer crops than the wheat and beans on the more congenial......
Country Life
FARMERS' COURAGE. I spent several days lately in a part of the country where the bed plight of the folk is most marked, where the population goes steadily down and down. In a......
Mysti.r11, Or Bird Migration.
To most of us the mystery of migration is chiefly associated with swifts and the swallow tribe. We have been given both this year and last some astonishing examples, by good......
A Scottish Member Of Parliament, Who Has Interested...
in farming policy, offered to bet me— and he has frequently made the offer to others—that I could not find a single parish in the country which did not possess one successful......
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