Devon Birds
That always interesting document, the annual record of the Devon Bird-watching and Preservation Society (Secretary E. H. Ware, Beech- wood, Highbury, Exeter), holds up this view......
Radio
MY cherished eleventh edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica says of William Cobbett that his " ruling characteristic was a sturdy egoism. . . . His opinions," continues this......
Country Life
IT is perhaps a little dangerous at the height of the hunting season to write of the destruction of foxes by chemical methods or by trapping; but the following episode is of no......
More Tits
Correspondents make it quite impossible not to return to the subject of tits. Perhaps the strangest—and most harmless — example of their activities is an attack on the tops of......
In The Garden
We are advised to make more and more compost on scientific prin - ciples, putting careful layers of soil or lime, adding such " starters" as sulphate of ammonia or Adco or one......
New Programmes It Would Be Easy Enough To Be Happily
derisive about The Pleasure's Mine, a new programme in which Mr. Wilfred Pickles introduces poetry to the Light Programme listeners ; but I fancy that looking down one's nose......
For This Late Date
There is still a good supply of hedgerow berries, that should serve as food—for mice as well as birds—in the hungrier months.' Perhaps they will not last long. Our home-birds......