The Harrowed Path describes the experience in 1972 of a 21 year old man struggling to come to terms with experiences diagnosed as Schizophrenia. It is a vivid and compelling account of events both within and out-with his fractured consciousness. The story describes the breakdown of all his normal ability and perception and their replacement with a terrifying, debilitating and self-destructive inner world. It depicts his extraordinary struggle and many lost battles. It describes the various types of help offered, both medical and non-medical. Finally it outlines the experience of his healing. All this takes place within the vivid landscapes of London, Gloucestershire and Hampshire.

Ten experimental management regimes, designed to quantify benefits to weed control and wildlife conservation on uncropped held edges of expanded width, were examined for effects on the weed flora within adjacent arable crops. The treatments involved cutting, sowing and herbicide regimes, with differing effects on plant and invertebrate populations. The relative abundance of all plant species within the adjacent crop edge was monitored using permanent quadrats between 1987 and 1991. The field edge management regimes affected neither the total relative plant abundance, nor the relative abundance of most common species, within the adjacent crop edge. While frequencies of Avena spp were initially greatest adjacent to margins cut in spring and autumn, this effect was lost through time, and the greater abundance of Phleum pratense and Leucanthemum vulgare adjacent to the field edges in which they had been sown presented no threat to good husbandry. The management of uncropped arable field edges to enhance biodiversity is very unlikely to affect weed levels within the crop, especially where they contain, or are sown with, non-invasive perennial species.

Includes collection of articles written by D. MacDonald in the "Family Herald", March 14, 1957-July 18, 1968; final issue of the "Family Herald", Sept. 26, 1968; framed photograph of O.A.C. class of 1897 mock parliament with G.S. Henry, later Ontario premier; biography and obituary of James C. MacDonald; McDonald, Haggan, McKinnon, Taylor and Bolton family tree; articles on Hugh Graham (Lord Atholstan), founder of the "Montreal Star", "Family Herald & Weekly Star" and the J.C. McConnel Foundation; other articles referring to Scottish immigrants involved in the newspaper and foundation business in Canada; future of farming newspaper article.