... eyes, two mouths and two ears. It proved, as usual, too good to live. Blackberries have rarely been so plentiful as they are this year, and the villagers are finding blackberrying very profitable. Unfortunately, many farmers have had.to complain that ...

... tcital of £6 Bs., being about £2 more than last y ear. That it was thought the drought “would have an adverse effect upon the blackberry season, but this is not the case, owing mainly to the showers of rain that fell a week or btwo back. That the result mtlst ...

... of skeps and small baskets filled with blackberries for the Metropoiia, That the women and young girls in the towns and villages are gaining a substantia] and welcome addition to their livelihood by the blackberry harvest, which is one of the ‘best for ...

... or hindrance permits and sufleis his hedgerows, etc., to be denuded of their yieldmgs usurping trespassers. The prolific blackberry, so much sought after for domestic nse, the sloe, manipulated into a charming liqueur, the crab, which makes a delicious ...

... last season. The stall has justified its continuance, DBLACKBERRIES.—The schoolchildren made their first collection of blackberries on Wednesday, and over 300 lb. of fruit were gathered. The pickers are paid 3d. per b, for the berries, which are forwarded ...

... with an alternative of fourteen days’ hard l labour. BOW BRICKHILL. Tar AvTuMN.—Harvesting season is now in full swing. Blackberrying is beginning, and \ mushrooming is proving a profitable way of filling up spare moments. From all appearances they are ...

... 371; €2 lections, over 60,000, and a sum ¢ for the purchase of eggs; veg fruit, etc., for the fleet and hc nearly 20 tous; blackberries, nea tons; chestnuts, 44 tons; wastc 11 tonss.honours gained by old s '123; commissions gained | ,scholars, 106, including ...

... only milk they see is of the tinned variety, and they get a stray pot or two of honey about once in a decade! An issue of blackberry jam he concludes was made from the berries gathered last autumn by local school children. He has just received his papers ...

... have been rejected as unfit. . It is many years since there was such an abundance of blackberries, sloes and crab apples as there iy this year. A lot of the blackberries gathered in the Woburn district are sent to Manchester, The majority of the grocers ...

... wickedness.”’ Asked by the Chairman why she took the boy away from his work, the mother said she thought he would earn more at blackberrying. The magistrates adjourned the case for the police to make inquiries whether the boy could be received on a training ship ...

... Parish Award relating to the subject read :— ‘ And also a way called the Millway from Aspley Church under Church Hill between Blackberry Furlong and Gore Furlong over the hills by Radwell Pit aforesaid and through Windmill Close to Water Mill and from thence ...

... 8 John's Church, Kempston, and All Saints’ Bedford. “Tt is not to he understood that the public are forbidden to gather blackberries as heretofore,” says the ‘“ Food Journal.” “To interfere with such a long-established pational custom is far from the ...