Country Life
STOCK OR STUFF ? A good example of the view that the battle of the world is not between bad and good but between rival goods is the present controversy of the specializers or......
Cultivating Weeds.
One point made by the new school is that on the general farm weeds are regularly re-sown from the manure heap. Sonic few seeds of undesirable plants may be so sown, though most......
Zoo Experiments.
The new Zoo at Whipsnade has just proved the means of fulfilling the very first and original idea of the Zoological Society. It was to be a garden of acclimatization, designed......
* * Vanishing Flowers.
Much has been written in many countries about the loss of scent in musk. This inexplicable disappearance is said to be paralleled by the loss of flavour in some of the herbs,......
Otters And Badgers.
The Animal Welfare Society of London University is still seeking particular information about two animals, the otter and the badger. Both are harried in certain neighbourhoods ;......
A Polygamous Partridge !
A theory has been started that the partridge—generally quoted as an outstanding type of monogamy—is on occasion polygamous, and helps to support two families. What is quite......
Do Grouse Migrate ?
How thorough our students of birds become ! When refer- ring recently to the experiment undertaken by a professor at Aberdeen University to discover the secrets of grouse migra-......
Tile Loveliest Village.
Which is the most lovely village in England is a question open to debate ; but few, I think, would deny that architec- turally no village, and indeed no town street, is quite......
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