Are You Sure?
Answers on Page 10
1 The Clerk of the King's
Pipe-
(a) Maintained the
smoking equipment,
royal
(b) Was an officer of the
Court of Exchequer,
(c) Arranged the music of
the King's pipe band?
2. Heligoland means-
Domain of the devil, land of
land?
the au, holy
3. A Blue Bald High-flying West of England Tumbler J
St Austell acrobat, breed of pigeon, Gloucrater plass, Cornish wrestler?
drinking
4. He has often made world news. Thlak fast to name lilm.
6. The first F.A. Cup Final was played at-
Stamford Bridge, Kensington Oval, Wembley, Crystal Palace, Fallowfield, Manchester?
If you were to scan a
you would- .Examine it carefulht, give it acast oitentlun, ignore it?
7. Where would you go to reachi
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Fair City, The Smoke, Auld Reckle?
R
8. Can you hame -
Popular summer game, prass- hopper-like insect, Scottish
stoot?
9. Where are these musi cally famous places-
(a) kley Moor, (b) Wide- combe, (c) Fingal's Cave, (8) Bray?
10. A domino In,
Cloak, hat, thawi, vell, fan? ZELF: € 33,91 maradjes: 2920/5:961da rakastamalarda ka721611
Colonial Service
Training
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JULY 12, 1947.
Chippy
AM going to keep three hens, They
will live in my garden shed in what BUYS THREE
is known by poultry keepers as “a battery," that is, a row of cages, one for each bird,
By this method, fed on food scraps, balancer meal, and, the waste of vege
tables, they will give me about 1023: of food a year. That is double my meat ration.
I have been making the battery this week; follow the illustration and you will see how to make one for your- self.
HENS
די
'SETS OUT.
TO TURN
THEM INTO
SUPER-HENS
1
and the upright divisions between
made
of
wire-
I made the framework first, 4ft. long, 4ft. Gins. high and 1ft, Gins, deep. This allows for the cages to stand on legs well off the floor. I was fucky to get some 2in. x 2in. the timber for this (as at upright netting, and are secured between A), but so long as it is strong supporting battens (sce B). these dimensions are not essen- tinl.
Next, job is to cover in the back and top. Old cases pro- vide good timber for this pur pose, but you can use old metal (or even old stout lino (see F).
Basket for the eggs FOR the floor you need really
сабел
Aro
To make the front of the cage you can, If you like use old stair rods (see
C), Bore holes, as in the illustration, right through ha top of the frame- work and half-way"
fond through the ledge.
party
I suppose I'd get the bird ik I joined that hen p
PROTECTING
BIRDS AND
EGGS AGAINST THIEVES
BY FRANK DAVIS
SMALL, elderly man sits patiently on a hillside in bird out, all you need do la remove rural Oxfordshire. Periodically, he lifts his binoculars and scana the landscape.
When you woat to take a
the middle rod of the cage.
He moves into action and wolics down the hill, making his way to n
the ground.
hope you are not interfering young man, bent over an obiect on
nest." says with that bird's elderly man. "I am a bird-watcher
I bird-life."
the
Now for two accesories, First is strong, fine-mesh wire-net- the droppings board, which is a flut ting, otherwise you will have to piece of three-ply timber cut to rest reinforce it with fencing wire, on the base of the battery under- neath the wire-netting floor. Tim- the slope,. Make the floor on
ber from an old tea chest will de, ending in a rolled-over piece of or a fint piece of meta. or no. Itend am here to protect all wild wire-netting to form a basket must be detachable, so that it con
The young man walks away. (see E) so that the eggs will roll be taken out and cleaned every day. into it out of the hen's reach as To do this easily you can give the muttering that he meant no harm.
But the bird-watcher knows bet- board fingerhold with 3ins. of in.
He has in his pocket, a soon as they are laid.
x. timber. You need one under ter
description uf the Young man 'ench cage.
Use pieces of lighter timber, say
each
and crd 1ins x in, at
to support aud between the cages
.
RADAR GETS
ITS PLACE
ON CHARTS
Radar has found ita cfficial placo on the mariners' charts of the world, It is to be repre sented by the symbol 'Rr' and it is
thus distinguished from radio, the symbol for which is '. This is one of the many details of vital importance to mariners which have been sot. tled on an international basis in the course of the fifth Interna- tional Hydrographic Conference which ended recently at Monaco,
In normal times the conferences ar held at five-yearly intervals, but as a result of the war the lapse of time since the last conference has been abnormally long and, - Ähere- fore, a late number of technical questions such as those involving the new science of tuidar como before the hydrographic and carto- graphic experts of the world,
Fifteen nations serit delegates, and In the never-ending war against stantly issues pleas to the public for the first time there was a re- pests that attack crops, even though to protect wild birds and offers re- presentative of UNESCO present. kome birds inflict damage on farm words for those who protect nesting Great Britain was represented by
birds,
Rear Admiral A.G.N. Wyatt, Hydro- Nat Tracy, a retired dentist and į gropher of the Royal Navy, The Kestrel steals an occasional honorary secretary of the Associa-
Vice Admiral Sir John A. Edgell, chicken, but makes up for it by the ton of Bird-Watchers and Wardens, hundreds of rats and mice It kills. is the most active participant in this ex-Hydrographer of the Royal Blue tits also may do harm in the game of bird and thief watching Navy, was elected President of the orchards, but they are invaluable Tracy has his own black list of Conference, which is arranged by
breeding in the
persistent offenders and circulates it the International Hydrographic bark of the trees.
to chief constables In rural de Bureau. when Insects are
tricts. It includes descriptions, names and
addresses, and motor car licence numbers.
produce.
So the theft of a few eggs con
NEST ADOPTION
even
Through the medlem of the Burenu make all the difference to Britain's
a good measure of agreement has wild bird population. Although the
been rouched in the style of charts made by hydrographie offices in all land has many species, it is the special variety that comes
parts of the world. The adoption of primarily for persecution
The Association has 000 members, | similar symbols and abbreviations on nest-robbing. Gotting a dwindling - many of whom are engaged active-j the charts and It the nautical are jy in protecting birds which are be- publications of all nations prevents
coming extinct rapidly. A plan confusion of senmen.
through
chance 100 propagate, they
faced with extinction.
among a list of all known "collec- farmer as the spoonbill, eagle, black protection to some rare birds. ld of hydrography, including "Notices
be
Many other detalls and methods
to Mariners, tides, oceanography, geographic positions and soundings are examined so that the charts and data of the reas of the world may be improved.
of "nest adoption affords special Such valuable assets to the
isn't generally realised." tor" of birds and their cers. He tern, noncy Buzzard and many more
a. bird Is de- Dusting board Snows that these professional col- have long since disappeared. And Tracy, "that when
numbers, It can lectors are more of a menace than aiready there is a marked decrease creasing
wiped out altogether by egg thieves. in the number of such beauties 03 ix the sloping floor from front to
per CECOND
A dusting the enthusiastic schoolboy. ix accessory
the great crested grebe, roscato tern The asprey, for tastance, was Note that for the back of board. This has sides in. high.
secuted for its feathers. An effort back.
CANNOT BE SEARCHED
and Dartford warbler.
was made to save it, and a few were the framework the Umber is sawn but is otherwise the same as the
kept in a sanctuary in Scotland. and clamped droppings board. It alldes in over the in half, lengthwise,
being They were hatching some eggs-the wire-netting a wire-netting floor. Hens ke to
building last in together will the
dust themselves two or three times a week--and the board, should be SEES, and he can be prosecuted only purposes, the birds' natural haunts bribed a sailor with five pounds to patient female gave up the attempt £1,500,000 between the two holves (ace G). ten-year colonini service improvement scheme,
ledge lett in position about half an hour You can make the food nine offers of the Malayan Union
of timber each time. Government six Eurey cans and (ser D) from a length three Malay-have been selected to sins. x in. Cut out four pleees, go to England shortly for specials. x 2ins. so that the uprights geking at
between the cages and at the ends place, training for colonial service.
Under
F
The course, which was formulated by the Duke of Devonshire commit- tee on postwar training for the colonial service, consists of a summ- mer school at Oxford, followed by two university terms.-Keuler.
onco
ka
A collector cannot be searched on
Since land is continually bird's turned from farming to
Britain-until a collector "Eventually," said Tracy, suspicion that he possesses
Arc dwinding. What
swim across the loch and steal the to raise her young. It is not sur if he is actually caught plundering also a nest. Bul the anes are so small
homes of the were the
blackbird whole clutch."
prising that buzzards, which used they act as no deterrent. Especfal- and thrush now are busy suburban
Tracy tells queer dales of selfish to keep down the plague of rabbits To avoid rats and other posts ly when a collector can get as much streets.
ness and avarice. A magistrate, and rats, are extinct in some coun- the birds,
tries." Lack into as £20 for a clutch of kite's eggs
This has spurred the efforts of the who also was a local fruit-grower, as shown, an old electrica species almost extinct in Britain.
Society for the Protection had the children in his district kill enn be let in. Then fix it in posi-, immpshade on each leg (see H)
The Royal Society for the Protec Royal tion of Birds campaigns to protect of Birds. Included in the Society's all the birds they could catch. tion with small metal brackets,
wild birds. The view-netivities is the payment of retainer country vicar was rewarded by a Country planning a bill to modify Place the battery where the birds Britain's
game-keepers and bird group of collectors for his dexterity and enforce an Act of Parliament Each bird needs three ties (one cach for water, food and grit), get plenty of fresh air and light, point is not that of a bird-lover, it fees to
is more practical. The birds are watchers who keep a look-out for in robbing a buzzard's nest succes to protect wild birds. The Act was
thleves. The Society
passed in 1880.-United Press, con- alvely for nine years, necessary adjunct to the These may be any kind of clean even if you have to modify your old in. The ends of the battery shed to do so.
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
I WANT THE ZINNIAÇ OVER BY THE FENCE AND NO ASTERS...
·YOU-CAN-GET-OUT-
AND
THE FERTILIZER AND
·DIG IT IN - THEN GET THE
MOR
WEEDS! WEEDS? WEEDS!
YES, DEAR READER,
WE THINK ALS
PRAYING FOR A CEMENT SIDEWALK
AT LEAST HES UCING SOME OF THE WORDS YOU HEAR IN
SERMONS.
farmers bird
The Society has drafted and pre- A sented to the Ministry of Town and
"The Good Earth"
BU KEMP STABRETT
THOSE
WHISPS
TOUR
YEARS
OLD?
I WANTED
TO HANG 4
JAMMOCK
NOW, WHEN THERE'S ALL THE WORK TO BE DONE ITS HER GARDEN AND YOUR JOB IN SEPTEMBER WHEN THE GAR- DEN LOOKS GOOD AND RATTY IT'LL BE YOUR GARDEN..... AND STILL YOUR JOB.
*THERE'S ALWAYS
WEEDS...
AND THEN MORE WEEDS!
BETWEEN "TEA!
THE GARDEN PESTS WILL BE ALONG
•PRESENTLY....
„THE SPINACH ADDICT
AND THE FERTILIZER. FANATIC ..... NEITHER OF WHOAL WOULD LIFT A FINGER TO RAISE ANYTHING BUT CAIN.
"THE LADY IS GOING TO BE AS SORE - AS A FOOT FULL OF TACKS WHEN THOSE "BIG, STURDY, FOUR-YEAR-OLD "TREES" ARRIVE
Ledger Syndicate
THE WEEK-END GUESTS: VILL ACIST" ON BEING HELPFUL. UNTIL YOU GIVE THEM A USEFUL JOB TO DO: THEY'LL LEAVE CONVINCED YOU'RE AS TIGHT AS A COAT OF PAINT.
TO GET A REPUTATION AS A GOOD GARDENER ONE NEEDS EXECUTIVE ABILITY AND A TALENT FOR GETTING AND KEEPING COMPETANT HELP
•THERE'S COME" MORE OVER THERE, GEORGE. I THOUGHT
YOU CAID, YOU'D
PICKED THE ALL
OFF IN THE
VINTER!!
TIME TO GET AFTER. THOSE BAG- WORKS WHOLE NESTS YOU
MISSED LAST MARCH..