The House Price Racket
StR,—It is difficult to see how the price of a house sold by public auction can be controlled by legislation. Surely it is the public who are forcing prices to an abnormal level......
Country Life
A SUCCESSION of ingenious leaflets is published at intervals by Mr. Orwin and his team from the excellent Agricultural Economic School at Oxford. In the latest appear statistics......
Bird Behaviour Sir,— Having Regard To The Very Great...
to all aspects of bird behaviour, I should be grateful if you would allow me space to reply to the various points raised by Mr. James Fisher in his review of my book The......
Which Government ?
SIR,—In his " Marginal Comment " of August 3 r st , Mr. Harold Nicolson says: " In the course of a single day the electors of this island were able, by the use of the secret......
Returning Civilians
SIR, —As fast as housing accommodation becomes available in London it i' requisitioned by the Borough Councils to house first families who have been bombed out of their homes......
In My Garden
That beautiful bush, which we ought to call Cydonia, not Pirus, Japonica is this year unusually full of fruit, some of it of a large size. It is worth while making it into......
Post-war Comradeship
SIR,—The comradeship of the Forces is one of the few good things that grew out of the conditions of war, and it will be one of the first to be missed by Service people coming......
Altruistic Blackbirds
The oddity of a robin building in a blackbird's nest was recorded last week. This week by accident I came upon the following passage in Trevelyan's Life of Lord Grey: "There are......
Bramble Varieties
War has certainly taught our people, even emigrants from towns, the worth of the kindly fruits of the earth Almost every cottage household has taken advantage of the bumper crop......
The New Harvesting
A correspondent, a woman landworker, is grieved at the suggestion that the cutter-and-binder has taken all severity of labour out of harvesting. Doubtless she has ended a long......
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