... doing their share of work in digging for victory during the weekend. Many thousands of men in the isolated anti-aircraft and other detachments now at their war stations throughout the Eastern Command are also to dig for victory this spring. Wherever the ...

... others to do the digging is clearly perceptible. But for those who think that the allotment movement is making sufficiently rapid headway it can be said that in the experience of competent observers the important of digging for victory” has not yet been ...

... Although it has been a dry season, the appearance of many of the gardens and allotments just now is evidence that the “dig for victory campaign has by no means fallen upon deaf ears in Chichester. Our attention has been drawn to one instance in which a ...

... has been but recently acquired. Now ground of all description needs at least a few days to settle down after digging. It is a grave mistake to dig a piece of ground and then try and rake it immediately. It should have a week in which to become firm. A curbing ...

... more food arose and resounded throughou the country, and the appearance of the prosaic and slightly ludicrous slogan, dig for victory, lamentably few steps have been taken to carry out any such food-producing scheme on the .waste plots of England. It ...

... DIGGING FOR VICTORY CHICHESTSR PLANS Digging for Victory in 1941 will have a greater meaning than the campaign of the past season, for more than ever this country has to idy on home-grown produce. The collapse of France in May last resulted in the stopping ...

... YEAR OLD HANDS WELCOME ADVICE By a Special Corrapaudeut The first year's campaign to encourage the man in the street to dig for victory has yielded substantial though perhaps not spectacular, results. Those who answered the call in time have had the satisfaction ...

... Sometimes shock is a useful thing. The events of the last few weeks have shocked great many people into joining the Dig for Victory” campaign. For, although the allotments movement has made astonishing strides since war began, we have suddenly been cut ...

... ask them to make the most of the vegetables. My colleague at the Ministry of Agriculture has been urging everyone to Dig for Victory.” The results of this campaign are now apparent. The parks have been split into allotments and the good earth is turfed ...

... labours and incomparable skill of the British farming community. AuthoriUtive voices have urged: Plough for Victory,” Dig for Victory,” Sow for Victory.” These are the key words to the importance of the next two or three weeks. The land must be prepared and ...

... examples. National Serines prevent waste, is the gathering of wool from fences and hedges. Gardens and Agriculture The “Dig for Victory” campaign was taken up with great enthusiasm in the schools. Those schools which already had gardens in one way or another ...

... quarter of an hour had some entertaining cricket Wkjley at first certainly seemed to be suffering from a topical impulse to dig for victory,” but after couple of overs he changed his mind and started to hit for it instead. It very nearly came off, too. With ...