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- ID
- cx149
- Title
- Country Life — 1936
- Genre
- Essay
- Publisher
- Spectator
- Publication Year
- 1936
- Document Types
- Full-text Online
- Nature Writing
- Eads, Additions to
- Topics
- Rural Living, Gardening
Columns written by Bates for the Spectator in 1936, eventually compiled in a volume called Country Life, (where further information can be found).
PDFs of the columns are available within separate Library entries grouped by year, (1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941).
The date of the columns and subjects (with links to related articles) covered in 1936 (attached) are:
- January 3 (Skating; The Love Apple; Plough Monday; Flower Colours; Botanical English)
- January 10 (Swan for Dinner; Grass Drying; Willows and Osiers; A Census of Birds' Nests; Poaching: Old and New)
- January 17 (Country Customs; The Village Hall; Preserving the Coast; The Virtues of Walnut)
- January 24 (Skokholm; ...An Appeal for it; —And One of its Problems; Fox and Sheep; Wigs)
- January 31 (Bitter Weather; First Signs; Farmhouse Holidays; Striped Tulips; A Friendly Covey)
- February 7 (The Provocative Fox; Foxes as Hunters; The Rabbit Plague; New Seeds for Old; Redwings, Fieldfairs and Starlings)
- February 14 (The Elusive Otter; ...Their Breeding and Food; Trees From Seed; ...For the More Ambitious; Food for Pigs)
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