A Dog's Dietary.
A dog of an acquaintance has recently discovered a taste for a new sort of food. He delights in nuts ; and he has evolved a singularly perfect technique in cracking them. He......
A Producer's Experiment.
These historical reminiscences are called up by a new and promising experiment undertaken by a few Essex market gardeners and farmers. They found, in accordance with the......
A Mole In Holborn.
A mystery, more remarkable than the fly in amber or the toad in the granite, has been announced in the Spectator by the Rector of St. Andrew's, Holborn. His garden is by Holborn......
Foolish Virgins.
The birds are in much the same straits as the farm animals : they have been eating up their winter fodder. Trees, such as the mountain ash, are already entirely denuded ; and if......
A Garden City Ideal.
It was a definite part of the original policy of the Garden Cities that they should be more or less self-supporting. Good gardens and an agricultural belt were to supply direct......
Country Life
WHEN FARMING PAID. _ British farming was most prosperous when the market - was local ; and social as well as economical advantages accrued from the co-operation between producer......
They Are Attempting To Sell Direct To The Public, Not
by a " round," on the model of the small dairyman, but by fur- nishing stalls on the farm. The housewives of the neighbour- hood appear to be appreciating the opportunity. They......
Oddities Of Drought.
The queer effects of the drought, that has persisted in most of the more southerly parts of Britain, are legion. One is the belated production of some far from agreeable......
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