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... Nature Notes. Cock Hatching Chickens. The teary is going the rounds of a Soots dumpy cock (catering chickens. This ia not so unusual as it at first appears. At the present moment I have an old dumpy oock which regularly fader* and feeds the chickens as ...
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... NATURE NOTES. OF INSECTS. In no part of their behneher do inmate dig* mom ma/refines Mean when are preparing. far w velar* d their StMCled than are olumg and browns euridasly skilful, and pertinaciona—wctnein Sarah Beetles sad their kindred, where Imo ...
... NATURE NOTES Ulster nature names My request to readers to send the names animals and used Water people and pecuUar to Northern Ireland has brought response from Coleraine. My correspondent tells me he was brought up near the shores Straagford Lough, and ...
... NATURE NOTES The farmers friend? That one of the commonest birds of our countryside should be called by wrong name nine people out of ten Is surprising. yet so it with the rook, which most people refer to as the crow. Even Lord Tennyson, in Locksley Hall ...
... NATURE NOTES. 4 HUNGRY BIRD. An official sword of the achievement of an adult crow in captivity shows that in a single day the bird devoured one-tough of its weighs in minnows. That is much as it a man ate forty pounds of cod within 24 hours. ...
... NATURE NOTES. 4 am fo* aumiEit. Oh! for oae those good, oM-bsUona* rammers (sighs writer is tin “Westminster Gazette”) to put new spirit in us. when flowers and fruit os their proper seasons and not six weeks lata—if at all: when Britain craw her own ...
... NATURE NOTES. MUMMY WHEAT. Many people still believe, as did the ancient Egyptians, that wheat thousands years old germinate if sown. Experiments have been conducted Kew Gardens with what is known “mummy wheat” —that is, wheat found the cases of ancient ...
... Nature Notes. Tour correspondent from Bundoran will find Hermit Crabs plentiful on the shore at Bundoran. Perhaps it is out of place to open old subject, but I read recently in a Canadian paper that the juice of the nettle is used green dye, also “nettle ...
... NATURE NOTES. . INSECTS AND FLOWERS. .. . Most people would accept it »e aa the ootoor ot flowers was to attract j-t—y. ud to further the process of croutollination by which many flowers surrire; his theory, which had the support of Darwin, ami BornweL ...
... NATURE NOTES FOR BENEFITS RECEIVED. Surgical Speculation and Bird Injuries. THIS WEATHER! What will St. Swithin for us this year? A few moments ago we heard a weather report as dismal as dismal could be, but surely it cannot rain much more, and there ...
... NATURE NOTES &PUS IN ABUNDANCE. Everybody is agreed that this is one of the gips{ wonderful years for ap ples ever known, there is no reason to doubt the stories which come from all quarters of trees which have actually more res than leave, upon akes ...