Country Life
VILLAGE STUFFS. Wherever I travel among English counties I find that local weaving flourishes surprisingly in many villages where it is taken up. I suppose that the most......
The Great Migrations Make One Of The Standard Miracles Of
the world ; but to the student of birds they are in some ways less puzzling than more local migrations. Quite a number of birds shift their residence after breeding, though they......
English Wool.
At the Centenary show of the Suffolk Agricultural Society one group of women weavers shared a tent and exhibit with the organization for selling the fleeces of Suffolk Down......
An Egg Query.
Here is a mystery, met but unsolved by two ardent ornithologists who journeyed forth to watch birds on a reservoir in East London. As they came close to the edge of the water......
Tree Or Creeper ?
It would be worth the while of many gardeners to grow the common laburnum, which is flowering this year in unusual profusion, as a wall creeper, like a wistaria. It runs up a......
Botanically As Well As Economically These Cereal Grains...
our civilization has been built up) are of curious interest. I saw this week grown in Suffolk a single plant of oats that had seventy-six straws. It was doubtless a more or less......
It Is, I Think, In Accord With Our National Character
that a number of those who have been concerned with the creation of Whipsnade have a very wide and general knowledge of natural history. They are not just specialists on caged......
The Golden Hoof.
This phrase, the golden hoof, means, of course, that where the sheep have trodden, have been penned in a flock, there the most golden grain grows. The sheep are the surest......
The Swallow's Speed.
Here is the record of a pair of swallows as reported to me. They did not appear till the first week of May, and the young family, though still a little wobbly on the perch, were......
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