19 OCTOBER 1934, page 15

Duck For Christmas

This year's Christmas card of the Norfolk Naturalists' Trust, which owns the best ring of bird sanctuaries in the world, is published early because many purchasers of the series......

Destructive Gulls

The mushroom, it seems, has other enemies than man. A correspondent sends me an interesting account of the general destruction of the fungi in a meadow where there were no stock......

Country Life

A Rural Banker On a cold day in February last I saw a vigorous and—you ould say—youthful visitor to a spacious garden in Hertford- shire looking into every likely bush and tod......

A Dorset Physician In A Humble But Valuable And Amusing

little book, pub- lished the other day more or less privately, I found, as one does in unexpected places, just the piece of information that I had been seeking. The book is The......

• Domestic Model

Shelduck have increased greatly during recent years along the Norfolk coast. Most of the rabbit burrows on Scolt Head and Blakeney Point seem to be occupied by them in the......

Mushroomers

In how many new ways does the town impinge on the country ! Last week some villagers, eager to be the first to reap the daily crop of mushrooms in a favourite meadow —it is 26......

A Sheep Dog's Fancy

Years ago in my neighbourhood a farmer's sheepdog was famous for his skill in rounding up broods of young chickens and driving them and their mothers to the right coops. The......