... SOME thirty years ago Mr. A. Pullen Burry, a nursery man at Sompting, in Sussex, had the idea of a movable greenhouse. Not hand-lights, but a full-sized glasshouse, which, after starting one crop could be moved on to bring on others, and, if required, brought back to protect any crop at a vital stage in its development. He designed several houses, and during the past thirty years j these ...

... WITHIN a mile of St. Paul's. Cathedral and behind the Mint is Swedenborg Square, Cable Street, a quiet corner in the busy dock and warehouse area of East London. Here Mr. R. Carson runs a dairy and milk-delivery round, and at the back of the premises is a large cowshed with other dairy buildings attached and all the space required to prepare food and accommodation for twenty milking cows, ...

... FEW products of the fields and hedgerows could be so small in size as the rose-hips. Yet their vitamin content (Vitamin C) is considered by high authorities to be of very great value indeed as an agent in building strong, healthy children. The C vitamin in rose-hips is some 20 times that found in the orange. The Ministry of Food is therefore pressing for an output, or intake, of 1,500 tons of ...

... Herts W.A.E.C. Install Grain-Drying Plant ONE of the disadvantages of the combine harvester is that grain thrashed in the field is liable to contain too much moisture and will sometimes heat in store, either in heaps or in sacks. In the case of barley, the whole crop must be ripe and dry when cut, but the presence of green weed fruits is a potential source of damage. Grain must I be stored as ...

... Good Ground Work The R.A.F. as Vegetable Producers THE Royal Air Force are only too conscious of the many good acres they have been forced to take out of cultivation for their aerodromes. The total of these acres is very high, but all are contriving to do their utmost so that the loss of food to the country is minimised. Some 7000 to 8000 acres have been brought back into use again, and by ...

... --by D. H. Watson-Wood THE coursing season which commences at Altcar next Wednesday, (November 3) will again be conducted strictly on austerity lines. This season, however, there will be five important meetings instead of four. That coursing has been enabled to carry on in war time, even with so restricted a programme, is a matter for congratulation, as it may be said to have served its ...

... Mostly About Rugby Football by John Radnor Return of Veterans to the Fray THERE is a growing man-power problem in Sport. The reason? Well, as the tradesman with a half-empty shop still is apt to remark to an over-optimistic customer, There is a war on. What is more, the war is in its fifth year, or, if one prefers to put it in a more daring way, in its fifth football season. Study the ...

... Lady Hall and John Lady JIall is the wife of Lt.-Col. Sir Douglas Hall, D.S.O., formerly of the Coldstream Guards, and at present commanding a Zone of the Home Guards in Argyll, .lohn is their only child. Lady Hall is the daughter of the late Mr. J ...

... Hunting Peopfe iii Wartime No. 3. Mrs. Reggie Farquhar, Fie| Gardens and Runs the Red Cross Coiv Secretary of the Quorn, Farms, escent Hospital at Brooksby Hall Off duty Mrs. Reggie Farquhar puts aside her uniform and takes her bull terrier for a run in the garden of her own home The Hall at Brooksby is a Comfortable Place to Sit About in Cabbage Cultivation by Nurses Pamela Sola i, Valerie ...

... m\ OF THE WAR By Foresight Strategic DR. ANTONIO DE OLIVEIRA SALAZAR is a mild man with a melancholy expression who appears to be more interested in philosophy than in politics. He is a quiet spoken and benevolent looking man, a bachelor and a teetotaller. His life's work has been the protection of the interests of Portugal, economically, politically and nationally. From his office in Lisbon ...

... The Lamp Still Bums Leslie Howard's Last Picture Pays Tribute To The Nursing Profession The Lamp Still Burns is the picture on which the late Leslie Howard was working when he so tragically lost his life. He supervised the production which is directed by Mr. Maurice Elvey. The film is a tribute to the nursing profession, and tells of the experiences of a young probationer, who, al though ...

... HYSTOGEIV Consultations 26 Eton Avenue, Hampstead, N.W.o appointment only. etc. are byi PERFECT FEAT1 RES can be obtained b the Hystogen method which 1 was introduced to Lmdon in 1909 by the Swiss Specialist, Mr. C. H. Willi, and which has now devel- 1 oped into a great 1 uman j art. During the last 351 years more than io,oco men j and women have pcrman-l ently benefited by his method which ...