• Disease In Poultry

Sta,—The comments in your issue of May 16th, regarding assistance to poultry-keepers, have been noted with some surprise. While it is true that the officials of County Farm......

Faithful Parents It Is A Commonplace That The Partridge,...

or female is an ideal parent, and it is as faithful to its eggs as to its chicks. female, other day a neighbour's dog brought to his master a live partridge which he had caught......

In Place Of Tips

Sta,—Mr. Garry Hoggs' letter drawing attention to the possible abuses in the growing practice of imposing 10 or even 15 per cent. "service charge" on hotel bills is timely. I......

Incensed Shakespearians

Sra,—With reference td the article Stratford, 1947, mentioning Romeo and Yuliet, which was published in The Spectator of May 9th, we, the undersigned, should like to object very......

In My Garden

The quaint briar-rose pteracanthus is worth growing, in spite of the pettiness of its flowers, for its date as well as its red, diaphanous thorns. This year with me it preceded......

Quick - Set •

There are many vieWs (mostly of an excessive dogmatism—that "vice of puppyhood ") on the enclosures ; but there can be no doubt that we ought to thank the organisers for......

Lapwing Rooks An Enquiry By A Body Of...

finally solved the mystery of the notorious "black plover" that appeared on the menu of the House of Commons restaurant. The birds were not moor-hens, as Mr. Aubrey Buxton......

Country Life

WHAT a number of little effects ensue from changes set afoot by Central planners, a small, perhaps petty, example will illustrate. It concerns the housekeeper. A maximum price......

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