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Marcu 22, 1919. Bus 
ark Vo e and | the Long- tailed Field-mouse— 
Mous These mice 
^ indle 
rees and Briars of their berries, an ave now 
been occupied in whittling the b of Ash 
saplings. and Hazel леу en gnaw the oute 
bark at the base the Be ui) “ihe 
probably tk y ood Mice) climb along the 
slender green tw of the ү шше {теев ап 
gs 
leave these Чы. ring aes hig з Scirpus zebrinus, 
or all white and glisteni 
The sporadic visitations "t these ae have, 
of course, their parallel on an immensely larger 
scale in other countries; there is ‘hee a known 
case the mming (Myodes len.mus). he 
p though he has never b in Norway in 
een i 
lemming-year, has seen something of the 
man of an allied | jud (My odos от 
on the coasts of Arc re the wast 
was alive with them, pt many “bodies iM am 
a sea-wrack along the line of high 
Various partes. have come Pocky py us of 
Vole plagues on oe Continent. 
“During the twenties,” says jus, “Ше 
Lower Rino was a saa dly еи by such a 
e e 
plague. The fields were so undermined in places 
that could s dr foot on the ground 
without touching a Vole hole, and innumerable 
paths were deeply trod between these open 
ings. On fine days it шш with Voles, which 
ran about almost openly and fearlessly. If they 
were approached, from six to ten rushed to the 
same | to in, and unwittingly impeded 
each ress by crowding together. dt 
as not difficult in the crush to kill half-a-dozen 
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earth as if by magic. Many may have perished 
from a devastating pestilence, n а; 
ve been devoured by their fell 
han 
in certain districts, it 
in 1 Me t 
oles were caught in fou 
th е district о oo 590, 427, and in that oi 
Рарб ach 27 
n the eam of 1856," says Lenz, ‘ 
were so many Voles in one district of four Here 
in ‘agen pega Де een Erfurt M Mois that 
12,000 of land 
several such eae in 
oe Library) 1 р їп 1580 in 
Essex, 1813-14, Noc: "x Penka and New Forest. 
Upward of 30,000 Voles wane destroyed by 
Various means in the est of Dean, and 11,506 
in the New Forest. In 1874 and 1875, a similar 
1 ade its appearance in Wensleydale, and 
lasted until about 18 duri which е the 
Fiel se appear Se 
pasture farms of t ibe hill districts of rag 
border: 
of En ithe and peed, ап of dicar d 
hen 
pints of. Vol ma nde ш 
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n 
appearance g South of Волын, where 
рете ‚000 an ‚000 acres are reported to 
ma been ftected In his report R. 
: udgeon said, ‘the gross area of the farms 
Seriously may t as betwee 
50,000 and acres. I shoul be f 
wrong in stati that ne 12, > 
re 
n 
umber of “hawks, foxes, weasels, buzz Aes 
THE GARDE N ERS' 
€ owls ae were 
Hampshire 1 had Шоп 
Кез bid" rg more 
CHRONICLE. 
abundant 
that the 
attracted by the 
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the time о ent 
an ава: 
the ground 2 ere for about three 
e inability to procure this form of 
g that period ep to have ken ad the 
tayor urable districts; only 
ы br ruary | " normal pairs 
have 1 
unusual appearance 
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this year of seagulls on pasture lands in 
this valley may be connected with the Voles 
In the dry summer of 1693, ү black-headed 
gulls breeding on Scoulton (as was 
Me 
assured by the keeper) frequently бой tht * 
to their nests, killing them by Жо мнн "them 
$e 1 
from a height. The jackdaw is very fono 
them. When I was a lad a pet jackdaw aa 
often, in laying time, ieave my shoulder to fly 
ff and h a Field Mouse, and eat it with 
gusto. ave no rooke re, and it is only 
at that one sees a rook on ou 
h r 
н po lie down in rather a Бе hollow 
under the steep hills, and the rooks prefer to 
haunt the open plateau above. Now they come 
135 
e burrows, 
poisoned grain thrown in, whole 
da so ae as "with ü 
or spurge. In oy every 
adopted to get rid of this terrible 
general, all these methods have proved nearly 
useless, : ne the 
into 
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eo consequently 
= tor rks, 
224 j Tis uod gei. dia es. 
and domestic animals “sc m неси to horses and 
oxen sufficient reason for ab staining alto- 
avion. teem the use ої poison. 
What can we do? 
I do not know how widespread this visitation 
may be, and ui e only spoken of it as experienced 
1 { garden, and s not 
"e 
fc he Voles, ға 
е also keeps them down. This irregular 
garden with bits of old АЛЧА anks, ivied 
walls and Lan а genera is a iral home 
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Fic: 57.—CORYDALIS WILSONII : 
ee _and І lately watched gulls, roo əks, carrion 
My jackdaws. and m ша и in one field Seg 
о ЕКЕ bon at would r a Field № 
[eim tly, my man who wa аса пеаг 
had his APRN i called Б а 1аа toa ep- 
ng the fog a hedge NAN a a P tmon in 
its k te m me it w. jer rail—a 
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our са friends 
Walter Elliot, ey a on the Wensleyd dale Vole 
s have De een us sed 
pingue о 874.5, says, “ 
ith good — with УОН, ban d soil per- 
му it, holes are made in the ground 12- 18 c.m. 
m: 60 c.m. deep" (about біп 
in circumference, 
wide by 4 
instead d'oi Sed owing their way out, 
each other. When the inis м were being ploughe 
children followed with sticks, and destroyed a 
many mice as possible. Smo ke has been driven 
FLOWERS CANARY YELLOW. 
are a very long way feck those in the instances 
quo а е. This can опу be к E a p pp 
its infancy. Let us h it шау 
for i s: suflciently trying at that. 
y analogy, it ought to disappea eben 
Pr evor-Battye, E ога Chace, Ила shire. 
February 28, 
CULTURAL MEMORANDA. 
PLANTS BY MEANS ОР 
bicis GS. 
PROPAGATING 
of ove pss green- 
S are so A: propag eet ; means 
› detailed directions for prepar- 
necessary. On euer cn 
iffic e аера se in thi 
ust be 
AN 
house qus nts 
of cuttings i uni nc 
ing the cuttings are 
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er in odes to ensure success. 
The sele ction bes the cuttings is an all-important 
mat tte er, ; and, l aki most S aie: 
factory are ots of medium vigour. The 
shoots, which Psi be of the current season's 
growth, should be taken when they have lost 
