Quiz of the week
1) Who invented the seed drill?
2) Who was known as the Hammer of the Scots?
3) Which large, red-listed gamebird lives in Scottish pine forests?
4) A pre-eminent 20th-century mathematician shared the same first name and surname of one of the Regency era’s greatest architects. Who was he?
5) What’s the title of Jane Austen’s last, unfinished novel?
Word of the week
Ulotrichous (adjective) Having curly or woolly hair
100 years ago in October 7, 1922
PEOPLE familiar with the rural movements of the last 20 years are apt to shrug their shoulders when there’s talk of developing rural industries, for the past efforts have been neither very hopeful nor very practical in their achievement. Too often, the effort has been yoked with
