I Believe The Grayling Does Not Belong To This Country,
but was introduced from the Continent by the mediaeval monks. At any rate, he is frequently found in clean running streams that have ruined abbeys on their banks. I write " he "......
Farming.
The complaint of farmers is not only against the expense of labour, but also against the profits made by the " middle- man." They reckon from the price the consumer has to pay......
Very Few People Can Rapidly Distinguish The Salmonidae...
fish. The salmonidae are the salmon, the char, the grayling, and the various kinds of trout. The dis- tinguishing feature is a small transparent tongue of flesh between the......
Summer-time.
Of all the institutions that tease human reason " Summer- time " is the most irritating—especially to the farmers. It is against Nature and is a guide to nothing. The farmers......
The Sprays Of The Mountain Ash Are Of Fern-like Appearance.
The bunches of white flowers so beautiful in the spring, later on turn into even more beautiful bunches of berries which decorate the wild mountain glens with vivid crimson. In......
I Have Never Seen I The Hawthorn Sg White And
heavy with bloom as I have seen it this year. One really tall hawthorn tree was so laden as not to leave a square inch of green. The branches looked as if weighed down by a......
The Silvery Grayling Is, Perhaps, The Most Doubtful Of All
the salmonidae. He spawns, like the coarse fish, in the spring ; and has a scale-armour on him (to put it strongly) like a mediaeval knight's shirt of mail. Like most of the......
Country Life
FRESH-WATER fish are divided into two main classes— coarse fish and fish of the salmon tribe. The latter, known technically as the sahnouidae, only thrive in fresh clear spring......
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