28 DECEMBER 1956, page 22

Sheltering Hare At The Gate, Where I Took My Breath

and looked over the field, a crumbling haystack sags towards the hedge. The top of the old stack was being combed by the unusually high wind, and every second strands of hay......

Chess

By PHILIDOR No. 82. J. HARTONG (Holland) 1st Prize, Anglo-Dutch composing match, 1956, 2-move section. BLACK (10 men) WHITE to play and mate in two moves: solution next week.......

Variable Weather We Have Been Having Variable Weather Of...

with one day a gale coming up out of the south-west, and the next, a fixed sky and a damp stillness that infects the rooks and jackdaws, making them perch and remain like......

Country Life

By IAN NIALL YEARS ago we had pigeon pie often, but as with hare and rabbit, one can become satiated with such things, and the taste for them goes for ever. The other afternoon......

Early Digging Frost, Which Is A Nightmare To Fruit Growers,

attacks other things in season—rhubarb crowns, celery and so on—but it can be of some help if the soil has been turned before it becomes iron hard, for it breaks up the heavy......