... 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 ...

... Midland Unit Wins U.K. Army Gardening Contest A MODERN Napoleon, endeavouring to reclothe the jest that the English are a nation of shopkeepers, would do well to consider a new epithet. We are now, surely, a nation of gardeners at any rate, in our spare time. Necessity, the mother of inven tion, has taken us all by the hand, and it is not an exaggeration to suggest that every gardener, in or ...

... By John Radnor THE Services have a way of their own in Sport, and only those who fail to under stand complain that it is not a good way. The main object, of course, is not to produce champions of the first magnitude, rare fish at the best of times, but thousands of first-class soldiers, sailors and airmen. The Services do not recognise distinction as between amatenrs or professionals they are ...

... DURING the autumn several im portant stock sales have been held and the prices realised afford an indication of the great interest breeders are taking in high-class pedi gree animals. Ayrshires have shared in the general demand for dairy stock, and the pictures show four animals who came under the hammer at recent sales two from the Gregory and two from the Hartgrove herds. Barnes Red Clover ...

... THE problem as to what will happen after the war is worrying the egg producer as it is the farmer. At present the Ministry of Food, in order to keep the cost of living down, is purchasing eggs at a higher price than the public are paying for them. Without this subsidy egg producers simply would have to go out of business for even under the most skilled management an egg to-day cannot be ...

... INCOLNSHIRE RED SHORTHORN ASSOCIATION THE BEGINNING OF ALL GOOD THINGS The bed-rock of successful cattle breeding must lie in the production of commercial rent-paying cattle. Lincoln Reds are capable of pro ducing more beef and milk per acre than any other breed and so can safely be regarded as the profitable cattle for the progressive farmer. The ideal breed lor every need. History and ...

... WRITING for those fortunate ones who can still fit in a game of golf, I make no apology for getting back on to a topic which was quite a general one at this season of the year between my pupils and myself in the good old days. It is the use of the half-shot in winter. Since the era of the matched set, the policy has been to discourage the use of half-shots. All players have accepted the match ...

... Hi ,n i9c |p| The foph lip*' were jSjPi stand In 1943 Brookes are still in the forefront, their entire resources devoted to the national effort. YOUR YACHT AFTER THE WAR? When hostilities cease Brookes will again turn to building still finer yachts with greatly increased resources and capacity, new methods and ideas learnt through stress of war allied to the same craftsmanship you have always ...