Prairie Farming
The Oxford farm economists who publish a very great amount of literature on the profits and losses of farming, maintain a strong belief in the value of mechanisation in the......
Hostile Bracken
Bracken is another enemy of birds, and at the same time the best friend of the rabbit. Mr. Lockley, the owner of Skokholm, makes the discovery that it is a special friend of the......
Island Sheep— The Island Of Skokholm (" My Dream Island
") has always something new, aliquid novi, like Africa, one of the newest things is not a bird but a sheep. The comely little Soay sheep sent there by the Duke of Bedford have......
A Bird's Enemy
The rabbits interfere even with the birds. Owners of spornng estates know this well, and there are on record some wholly astonishing examples of the multiplication of partridges......
The Early Iris Is Any Winter Flower In The Garden
quite so eloquent as Iris stylosa? Suddenly out of a mass of untidy leaves that suggest the decay of autumn looks out a bright mauve flower, that may be claimed as the most......
Country Life
A Homing Marvel The most remarkable experiments ever carried out to test the homing instinct of an animal have had yet stranger and preciser results than were expected.......
— And Rabbits
Even the rabbits on the island breed less freely than on the mainland, but unfortunately they breed excessively. They are the curse of the island, which might be an admirable......
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