... part of Wales there are still a fair number of polecats, though I do not hear so much of stoats or weasels, comparatively speaking. Radnorshire. D. Vernon Lewis. ...

... killing lobsters and believes that to drop them into boiling water involves least distress for these shellfish. Because, so to speak, the lobster has no central brain, but a number of nerve centres distributed over the body, electrocution is not so far practicable ...

... Knights, and the solitary King, tradition alleges them to be in vaders of England turned to stones by a witch. Another legend speaks of the impossi bility of counting the stones correctly. My photograph shows part of the Circle. Essex. G. B. ...

... would open the subject in other farming publications. Perhaps he has already done so. In your paper I feel that his letter speaks to the converted, mostly. The calves present one aspect only of a very big problem, which concerns all farm livestock. My ...

... small proportion of the national population Should the burglar go free, because murderers are in short supply (comparatively speaking) Anyway, living in this county, it is hard to believe that swans are really declining, though some of us wish, locally, that ...

... Other largely agricultural canals (such as the Bude Canal and the Tamar Manure Canal) were among the first to fail broadly speaking, canal successes were based on urban industrv. Bath, Somerset. P. S. T. ...

... Emily Bronte's book, Wuthering Heights, the rock is known as Penistone Crag, and she describes it as a fairy cave. Others speak of the quaint custom as a form of betrothal, known to our Norse forefathers as the promise of Odin. Yorkshire. J. S. Ponden ...

... ionn Peel, The Farmer Sir, The fame of John Peel as a untsman is sung all over the English speak ng world, but his work as a farmer is not so well known. He farmed on a small scale in Caldbeck narish, Cumberland, where he was born n the 1 8th century ...

... A pre-recorded voice announces the name of the firm, the fact that the message is being recorded, and gives directions to speak clearly and when to begin. When the caller has finished, the equipment announces that it is switching itself off, and breaks ...

... Market Fiddles i Sir, The recent report concerning fiddles at wholesale markets, as claimed by a Covent Garden wholesaler speaking at a growers' conference in St. Albans, Herts, and reported by the farming press, again raises the question of ethics and ...

... populated by hares, but until this year it was extremely unusual to see even a single hare on the farmland on our side. I speak from first-hand know ledge, as I have some rough-shooting in the area and can only recall coming across three of them in the ...

... wind direc tion and speed, air temperature and humidity, recent rainfall, etc., and during the actual danger season (broadly speak ing, April to September) the fire ratings are calculated each day, and the com posite result duly put up on the hazard indicator ...