A Farmer As Ingenious As His Namesake Who Shared With
Stephenson the glory of the first steam engines, invented a new way of piling corn, half way between the stook and the stack. The bases on which these weather-proof mounds of......
A Tame Gold-crest.
To pass from a big bird to the very smallest, a golden- crested wren flew recently against the window of a neighbour's greenhouse and was picked up, it seemed, in extremis. The......
Every Rookery Is Compact Of Problems. The One That I
should like some authority to solve definitely is whether a number of rooks go through the season unmated or at any rate without a nest. So far as I have been able to count the......
Trim Rapid Swift.
One advantage of the British Empire is that our friends can watch one end of the birds' migration route while we are watch- ing the other. Some of the swifts, for example,......
Not So Long Since A Group Of These More Eminent
pioneers collected together at Chelmsford (where flourishes a.very wise and enterprising farming institution) in order to pool their ex- periences. If we were not a community......
Prophetic Rooks.
It is an old belief that those wise birds the rooks desert treacherous trees. If a tree is weak no nest is built on it. Here is a modern instance that may illustrate the causes......
Paris Crows.
Another rook problem is put by a correspondent from the Place de la Concorde, a name that could not be used with fitness of any rookery that ever I watched! He writes : " There......
Country Life A Farming Pilgrimage. .
A book was once written called A Pilgrimage of British Farming. If any pilgrim—a Young, a Cobbett, a Daniel Hall or who not were to set forth to-day, journeying by car rather......
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