Birds And Airplanes.
Mr. Orville Wright's pioneer airplane, which has just been honoured at South Kensington, was shown to me many years ago by its artificer ; and we talked very little about the......
Sugar Beet Facts.
It should be generally known among farmers how very successfully sugar beet has been grown in England this year. Records have been shown me of light land yielding 12 tons to the......
Country Life Villages And Me B.b.c.
What subjects are English villagers eager to debate? The question arises over the new enterprise of the B.B.C. Active steps have already been taken. A particular village has now......
The Organization Is Not Easy. On The Part Of The
B.B.C. the talk must be at any hour suitable for the social life of the village ; and the men and the women probably want a different hour. The subject must he simple,......
One Of The Pioneer Counties Is Gloucestershire, The First To
form .t " county preservation society." On this body landowners are taking a prominent part, as in yet more notable degree are the Thames-side landowners of Berks, Bucks, and......
* * Regional Planning.
Now regional planning, which was brought to birth by the Ministry of Health, will go ahead very quickly in the coming year. The counties will now for the first time possess......
Especially Buzzards.
The bird they watched above others was the buzzard, a great hawk that is common in America. I have seen a group of them circling hour after hour above Washington as if they were......
Mr. Wright Was So Impressed By This Practice Among Birds
that he advanced his theory beyond the probable. He thinks, or at one time thought, that the buzzards have learnt a mechanical device for creating, or at any rate increasing and......
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