... SUITS FOR THE SPRING GALADALE TWEEDS AND NAPPA HATS A NOTABLE doctor once declared that there is no better mental tonic than a new hat, especially in the spring, when the longer days are coming. Harrods, Knights- bridge, are showing their new collection, which may be divided into two classes those for sports and country wear, and those for social functions. The latter are cheerful and prac ...

... The Tote and its Possibilities Meyrick Good's New Book I AM obliged, owing to shortage of space, to write a rather patchy article this week. First of all, a note has come from the friend who supplied me with some details of the Flemington racecourse. Why, he asks did you cut out the i most important part my reference to the 1 kind of Tote used and the fact that the meet ings are run for the ...

... AT the Church of England School at Little Gaddesden, Herts., great work is going on. The children, half of whom are evacuated from London, are all members of the Young Farmers' Club, and with the encouragement of the local food and educa tion authorities, they rear pigs, rabbits,, poultry and goats. Everything is run on strict business lines, and they have converted a grant of f\2 into animal ...

... THE Prime Minister's prophecy, made at the Guildhall on June 30, 1943, when the Freedom of the City of London was conferred on him, was in the following terms Very probably there will be heavy fighting in the Mediterranean and elsewhere before the leaves of autumn fall. B The fight in Italy is now on. The leaves are falling with the autumn rains. In London they are fluttering down to the ...

... THE military side of war operations is so vital and important that there is every excuse for the public to overlook the many essential duties carried out by the Army authorities behind the lines. One of the first and most important considerations is to ensure that the civilian populations in occupied areas are properly fed and that food hoarders and speculators are not allowed to hold up ...

... ALTHOUGH the Shropshire is an important sheep in the western counties, it is not as generally well known as the high quality of the breed warrants. There are a number of first-class flocks distributed over this country, but it is as an export type that the Shropshire is best known. The breed is very popular in the United States, where there are a great number of pedigree flocks as well as ...

... A CONTEMPORARY publishes some astonishing figures illustrating the development of artificial insemination in Russia. In 1940, it is alleged, 1,950,000 cows, 15,180,000 ewes and 447,000 mares were fertilised in this manner. If to achieve this 3,000,000 cows and 21,000,000 ewes (we will throw in the brood mares) were inseminated, the resources of our great ally in skilled man power become even ...

... B7977C>2 fou get MORE from EVERY ACRE by using 4ARVESAN DRESSED SEED Last season's crops showed time and time again that Harvesan dressed seed produced extra sacks to the acre. Harvesan is the seed dressing which gives lib tin 2/6 71b. tin 15/3 1 41b. tin 28 561b. drum 102/8 seed gram an earlv start, promotes strong root growth and 1 1 ,w orf 1121b. drum 196/- fy* 86 SOLD AND STORED prevents ...

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... V. J. LTTTLE the Irish left wing three-quarter was married at St. Peter's H arbor ns, to Sylvia daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hewitt of Harborne Birmingham. The best man {right) was a fellow Bedfordian C. O'Z?. Power zifry wear /o getting his Irish cat) as a centre. CAPTAIN A. R. V. LUKE Imperial Services boxing champion was married to Peggy daughter of Dr. and Mrs. C. H. Heaton, of Worcester at St ...

... QUITE naturally, it is the women in corduroys and green jumpers who figure most in the land news these days. But there is another Land Army made up of wives and daughters of permanent land workers. Here are Mrs. Birkenshaw and Mrs. Collis, mother and daughter, not in uniform, because they were land u workers before the war, and so are not eligible for the W.L.A. With their dogs Duke and ...

... THE annual spring show and sale of pedigree Sussex bulls was held at Haywards Heath on March 5. The entries numbered forty-five, but only one bull was included in the class for animals born before December 1, 1941. With two or three exceptions, the prices realised were not high. It is possible that this was partly due to the war change from grass to arable in the districts where the Sussex is ...