5 MAY 1933, page 15

* * * * The Sugar Beet.

In a speech, of great distinction of style as well as matter, the Minister of Agriculture suggested (at least such is my inference) that sugar beet is to be made a sort of......

Now Many Of Us Have Wondered And Wished To Find

out whether this intelligent if brutal conduct on the part of the little owls was a special discovery of some genius in the Sussex tribe, or a general habit, an established......

Garden Shrubs.

Books on gardening are responding wholeheartedly to the new preference for flowering shrubs. Many French châteaux may be said to have no garden, in our sense of the word, but......

The Reason For The Astonishing Multiplication Of The...

is much the same as accounts for the survival of the grey squirrel which is defying the official ban : it is mar- vellously adaptable. The barn owl—the best of the bunch from......

Country Life Ax Owlish Instinct.

One of the strangest byways of instinct—or reason !—in birds was explored a few years ago in the ancient demesne owned by Sir George Courthope in Sussex. It is one of the most......

Owls And Voles.

A brave prophecy about another sort of owl has been made by Miss France4 Pitt, who is. perhaps the greatest specialist we have on British mammals. She has not only observed......