A Rural Generalization.
The other day a prize for the best county story went to a Herefordshire reader of the Spectator. In that same most rural county last week I had a report of a rural conversation......
Cider Versus Wine.
Now the juice of the apple grows more popular ; and begins to rival the juice of the grape and, may one say ? of John Barleycorn. There is little doubt that the days might be......
Now Farmers And Landowners And Eider Makers In A Dozen
counties are anxious to plant orchards. They pay well ; and it is held that the cider apple is a valuable adjunct to orchards of eating and cooking apples, as it helps the......
A Bird Scarer.
Whether or no it is due to hard times I cannot say, but there is reason to believe that the Continental—especially Italian and Spanish—habit of eating small birds, is growing in......
Country Life
VANISHING ORCHARDS. Many of those most closely concerned—as historians, as farmers, as merchants—are alarmed at the disappearance of the orchard most characteristic of the West......
The Farmers' Unions Of The West And, Indeed, In Many
southerly and easterly counties are interested ; and there is little doubt that planting would be general, if the tenant could be temporarily helped (as tenants once were in......
A Government Nursery.
It Might be well to set up a large Government nursery ; but the trees would be grown by nurserymen in sufficient numbers, if the Government announced that they would need so......
Eccentricities Of Hue.
There is a story of a literary critic who during a discussion on Thomas Hardy's poems said : "I like my poetry good, and if I can't get it good I like it rum ; and Hardy is......
Filmed Birds.
Films have been taken this summer of a number of our rarer, or once rarer birds ; and some of the photographers have been astonished at their own discoveries of the ways of......
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