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COUNTRY VoL. XCIV. No. 2437 KNIGHT, FRANK & RUTLEY By direction of Sir Norman IVatsou, Bart. l BERKSHIRE THE ..

... garden of t his house for three years before I knew him, and cont inued to do so until 1933. H e became exceedingly tame, picking up scraps of food at the feet of the lady of the house, Mrs. G. Vidal, or of her sister, though he never took anything from ...

Published: Friday 01 October 1943
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 23194 | Page: 39 | Tags: none

COUNTRY .· LIFE

... and more noble and placid animals, such as the horse and cow, they appear to spend much of their beastly lives on heaps of garbage and filth, breeding millions more flies. \Vhat glamorous attraction we can have for them it is difftcult to imagine, when ...

Published: Friday 14 July 1944
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 28793 | Page: 39 | Tags: none

MAKING FRIENDS WITH WILD BIRDS

... the unbelievable garbage they offer to the birds beggar the imagination. One Summer evening not long ago, one of the boys concerned was seen to b waving about in the air the highly putrescent carcass of a muchdecayed fowl he had picked up somewhere. On ...

Published: Friday 02 November 1945
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1934 | Page: 30 | Tags: none

whether means eau be found for safeguarding the mil l at a reasonable The Cambridgeshire County be found for cost

... sometimes they are impudence. But sometimes they are useful, because, being omniverous, they feed on all sorts of carrion and garbage a nd remove from our homes all kinds of rubbish. Moreover, a lthough they often take the cultivator's harvested grain when ...

Published: Friday 11 April 1947
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2724 | Page: 38 | Tags: none

Garbage Town

... Garbage Town The people of Rome are picking their way through streets piled with garbage left to rot since 14,000 municipal workers went on strike for more pay eight days ago. Negotiations to end the strike broke down to-day.—B.U.P. There were fullg 500 ...

Published: Saturday 02 October 1948
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 373 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

ANIMALS IN A CANADIAN GARDEN

... all averse to any offal there may be in the dustbin. A a re ult l can never put the clu tbin out on Sunday night for the garbage truck to collect on Monday morning, for if I do they will always pull the lid off, upset it, and strew whatev r th y cl not ...

Published: Thursday 10 March 1955
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3746 | Page: 41 | Tags: none

KNIGHT, FRANK & RUTLEY

... one tory ends and another begins. In these days, when o many famous country hou es die ben ath the demolition contractor's pick and their ground revert to scrub, it is heartening to be able to record a ea e of triumphant reclamation. When Lord and Lady ...

Published: Thursday 18 October 1956
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 16707 | Page: 59 | Tags: none

tit and warblers. Eventually a state arrives

... increase among deer, particularly moose, which have multiplied and extended their range cl uring the past investigate the garbage bin, but is too much of a gentleman to enter at the open door- fortunately! The little ermine has no such cruples. H e sometimes ...

Published: Thursday 18 October 1956
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2577 | Page: 58 | Tags: none

CORRESPONDENCE

... people, apparentl y residents of the area, began dispose of their hou eholcl garbage bins, filling them full to overflow- As a consequence to dispose of their hou eholcl garbage in the bins, filling them full to overflowing every day. As a consequence the ...

Published: Thursday 02 October 1958
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 4439 | Page: 58 | Tags: none

TRESIDDER & CO

... BER 20. 1958 Three ideas, picked out of hwldreds, to spark off your most successful Christmas shopping ever. .. Sun ashtray by Fornasetti r gn. Initialled goblet 25/ Miniature replicas of game birds 13/ - Three ideas, picked out of hwldreds, to spark ...

Published: Thursday 20 November 1958
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 13873 | Page: 69 | Tags: none

Co untry Life-Decemb

... , 1958 Three ideas, picked out of hundreds, to spark off your most successful Christmas shopping ever China matchbox cover from Hungary 25/ 6 Martini mixer 35/ - our own bath essence in gay felt sacks 6/ - Three ideas, picked out of hundreds, to spark ...

Published: Thursday 04 December 1958
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 123598 | Page: 19 | Tags: none

GREYSTONE, CRICKLADE, WILTSHIRE

... put the bird with its sister in the yard, where the parents continued to feed them. ro. I was picked up To. 2, which was always Shortly after, ro. I was picked up dead, but To. 2, which was always a little lame, was till being fed and fluttering occasionally ...

Published: Thursday 31 December 1959
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 25911 | Page: 49 | Tags: none