What Is A Sewin ?
A point in nomenclature puzzles some of the investigators. What is a Sewin ? In a number of districts, so I understand, it is used of small and young fish, whether salmon or......
Tell-tale Scales
• We owe a great deal to the research workers who spend hours a day in' studying scales under a microscope. The ability to infer the world, as Tennyson desired, from the little......
Caged Birds
On this subject of cruelty to birds—not in killing but in caging—a hot controversy has arisen between some excellent naturalists—including Lord Tavistock and Major Hills, and......
A Mystery Of The Clyde The Scottish Fishery Board And
their most able assistants— one of them a fine scholar—have been finding out a good many things about the way of a fish in the water. One of the oddities is that fish,......
Osprey Plumes It May Serve A Purpose, Other Than The
purpose of adver- tisement, to quote a passage from a recent catalogue pub- lished in London. The headline is " Hats for those important occasions," and the subscript paragraph......
Continuous Wheat All This Is Welcome Enough ; But Some
things are being done this sowing season that make both the academic and the old-fashioned farmer shiver. I happen to have seen several large areas where a second successive......
Country Life
" Speed the Plough " When the farming statistics of the year are published, it will be found—and there is no secret about the figures—that the area under wheat will exceed most......