... Vegetables Pinch out the tops of runner bean plants when they have reached the top of the stakes. Corn salad (an excellent vegetable for autumn and winter use) can be sown now in drills 6 in. apart. Continue sowings of lettuce, radish and winter spinach. Don't neglect the mint bed-- cut down the old coarse growth and so secure a fine lot of young shoots for later use. Above all, don't forget ...

... WHATEVER song the sirens sing, this suit, from Bur berry's in the Haymarket, is ready for anything. It is made in a very fine angora material, soft and extra ordinarily warm, cut like a ski-ing outfit to shut out draughts at wrists and ankles. There is a pocket for chocolate, handkerchiefs, first-aid outfit, and the suit can be slipped on in a moment. They have it for 79 16 in lovely colours ...

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... Maureen Ruttle Makes a Big Impression ONE often hears about women who hit a golf ball like a man, but when you come to see them play you know that your informant, if he has seen the players in action, has judged them by his own game or by comparing them with a male player who in the same game possibly has been pressing in order not to be out driven by a woman. Last week I played with a ...

... Producing the Egg-Layer The Work On a First-Class Breeding Farm Later an assistant releases the hen and collects the eggs noting the number on the leg- band and writing this on each egg. Trap nests are used as shown in the photograph. When a hen enters the laying nest a catch is released. The door drops down and so imprisons the hen. Some of the specially pedigreed birds have to be hatched in ...

... CONGRATULATIONS to Mr. Percy Green, of Coleshill, Birmingham, on his slogan: More waste means less waist. Fines and costs imposed on farmers who have not complied with the Ministry's orders amount to £1,621 8s. 9d. There were 49 prosecutions. In Germany it would have meant 49 executions. Children at Penistone St. John's Council School claim to have pulled up 270,000 weeds. A near-by rival ...

... PROUD as they are of the King's uniform, most women in the Services are glad of the regulation that permits the wearing of civilian clothes for purposes of recreation. There is plenty of scope for the individuality in design and colour of kit so dear to the feminine heart on the lawn tennis court and even on the athletics field. THE A.T.S. had a grand day for their sports at Aldershot. ...

... In the Air Brakes for Our Fighters? By Our Flying Correspondent WHEN the Germans dive-bomb a --target whether on sea or land-- with their Junkers 87 aeroplanes, they use air brakes, and, from what I have seen of Royal Air Force interceptor tactics during the past few weeks, I think it likely that there will eventually be a demand for air brakes on fighters as well as bombers. ror the real ...

... The Art of Sailing Part I I THE first part of this special Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News series on sailing, by Mr. E. D. Gannon and the Harrow Argonauts, appeared in last week's issue. The third and final part will be published next week. I Anyone can sail on a reach, almost anyone can run before the wind, but it takes a sailor to work a boat to windward. The first thing to do is to ...

... Public Schools' Week at Lord's Tonbridge Beat Stowe THE Public Schools' week at Lord's, which began with the meeting of Beaumont and Oratory (reported in The Sporting and Dramatic News last week), was continued with the match between Tonbridge and Stowe, and the remaining two days were devoted to Marlborough and Haileybury. Stowe gave a good account of themselves against the suc cessful ...

... MARLBOROUGH and Haileybury had a really splendid game at Lord's, and with the result in the balance almost to the end there was never a dull moment. The final scores were: Haileybury, 269 for 8 dec. and 234 for 9 dec.; Marlborough, 261 and 186 for 7. It says much for Haileybury's power of recovery that they were able to declare after being in danger of collapse in both innings-- the eighth ...

... WE have been told to grow more food, but many people with limited gardens are not able to do very much extra. They wonder whether they can keep a few hens to provide eggs, a most valuable and essential food, which will become very scarce in the autumn and perhaps for a long time after. Many think that keeping poultry is an expert's job and they are afraid to tackle it. That is not so. The ...