A Weevil Host Insects Have Been Scarce, Yet Some Few
of the most per- nicious have flourished beyond credence. Some of us went forth recently on to a spacious Common to collect a few gorse seeds. We opened pod after pod. In each......
Severn Muskrats
The other day it was my fortune to sail down the Severn in the neighbourhood of Shrewsbury. Sabrina was very fur; and is not to be less fair for the appearance of a foreign......
Absent Butterflies Insect's Were Very Few Earlier In The...
and in my district there has been an inexplicable - absence of butterflies. Even the cabbage whites (the only butterfly in the list that does any particular harm) have been few.......
* * * * Congregated Coveys A Phenomenon Quite New
to me at this date in the year astonished many observers on "the First." The partridges had packed. I saw one pack of at least fifty birds fly high and strongly over a belt of......
Country Life Bumper Wheat
Within sight of my windows a glorious field of white wheat was cut and carried in early August,. and the ploughing of the stubble completed on the last day of August. This......
What Exactly Was The Yield Of Wheat In This Particular
field I do not know ; but on an adjacent farm two fields yielded well over seven quarters to the acre, an enormous weight ; and the quality is high, even if not up to Manitoba......
* * * * Late Broods In A Colony Of
martins, who have built over three score of nests in one short piece of wall, two or three have this week, and this week only, hatched their final brood. These are probably the......
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