... NATURE NOTE! The com harvest was begun locally during the second week In the month, and the crops arc good on the whole, but here and there patches have been laid more or less flat and will call into request the use of the homely scythe, which is now ...

... Nature Note A friend of mine has lieen remarking that in his country walks he has noticed that a large number of trees have been stripped their bark up to as high as three and four feet from the base and he has been wondering what is the explanation. ...

... A Nature Note Pressed by the recent h» weather, wood pigeons are feeding on ivy berries earlier in the season than usual (says “A. T. J.”). one wishes they would confi their attentions more exclusively such fare, for they are real to the grower of winter ...

... TO-DAY'S NATURE NOTE A SAVINGS RECORD BEST IN HISTORY OF SAVINGS BANK At itonday's Liverpool National %eines &Emotive Committee ineetinsi it was stated by the actuary of the Liverritlistings Bank 151 r. Neil U. ionilsont that the month ending' February ...

... A Nature Note Many practical land worker > long realised the value of a source .potash—most tial of element’s in the of food crops. Land on which redundant fern has been so rich in that plant food tn are being urged to grow potat*? bracken-infested areas ...

... A Nature Note The bird-table becomes more pop 1 * day by day (says T. J.”) bird, thrushes, dunnocks, f al ! three sorts of tits, chaffinches, r° redwings, and an occasional representing nearly dozen £l species. Fat of some kind essential in winter, we ...

... A Nature Note Thrushes have come back to garden after an absence of months (writes “A. T. J..”)- Not entire absence, for a few we b ' had all along, but their are considerably augmented, is evidence that they have sotf® where wintered well. It is however ...

... A Nature Note Although green is the prerogative of spring and summer it is in our island country the dominant colour note even in mid-winter (say 3 A.T.J.). Especially, perhspsin the West does the old Bacon called ver perpetuum most prevail' Here the ...

... A Nature Note The little old yellow wallf clings to, many seaside cl Wale? and which is so firmly in the ancient walls of Cor (says A. T. J.”) claim to But since it came from Soufi some 350 years ago it can si strong plea to incln countryside flora. Moreover ...

... A Nature Note During the brilliant weather of a week or so ago wb the snow sunrise was opal-bl in the long shadows, the tre darkly lined and rigid if they were frozen into immobile the only bird voice to greet flashing sun was that of the dipp| With its ...

... A Nature Note The blackthorn is always so capricious in its flowering date (says “A. T. ,T.”) that it seems to be little affected the weather conditions. But this veor it, in common with so many other plants, appeal’s to have endured such a shock from ...

... A Nature Note Our red squirrels are following a period in seemed by their antics to mad as any March hare ' “A. T. J.”) They cunningly ’ trive to conceal from IIS J whereabouts of their new evidence of the shredding bark from certain conifers, bits of ...