For Fishermen In General The Season Has Been A Complete
failure ; though a few very big fish have been caught. It is odd that numbers of fishermen in very different streams have been struck by the unusual number of coarse fish. They......
A Harvest Festival.
The following is a reminiscence from the records of the best countryman I knew ; and I apologize to his shade for the doggerel: A HARVEST THANKSGIVING. " ' No set the walnut......
Australian Plagues.
Australians sometimes claim that they have no native plagues : all are imported. This is not wholly true. _Mice and caterpillars (resembling our tent caterpillars) are certainly......
Country Life
A FISH MIGRATION. The way of a fish in the sea and river is not the least of the Solomonic marvels ; . but we continue to penetrate new parts of the mystery. Some of the experts......
A Number Of These Sea Trout Were Marked In The
Tweed ; and two of them have recently been tracked down. One was netted on the Norfolk coast and the other off the shores of Holland. The two examples are enough to prove that......
General Experiences With Fish During The Year Have Been Many
and curious. Personally I saw the biggest catch of mackerel in my memory off the south coast of Devon a few weeks ago ; and at the same date the Cornish fishermen a few miles to......
The Human Country.
That lively and most original quarterly The Countryman (published from Idbury Manor, Kingham, Oxford) contains an admirable discussion (all by women) on the relative values of......
Apple-eating Birds.
In a very delightful letter from the head of an Oxford College I am taken to , task for expressing a certain surprise at the voracity of birds for unripe apples. My......
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