... By Ashley Courtenay HAD anyone asked me a year ago what I considered to be the most essential things in life, I should have replied, sunshine, good food and sleep in that order. Ask me the same question to-day, and I will reverse the order and put sleep first. No-one who has lived on the bombing track during the past weeks is likely to disagree with me, and I am finding in all my en ...

... .jj Home-Grown V Sugar THE sugar-beet industry, which, I fortunately, was making great S forward strides before the war, is now in full production. The factory I a small fraction of whose output is illustrated is one of seventeen gj if factories which will be working seven 14 days a week until April. Its own U| contribution to the food problem I is 250,000 tons of sugar a year. A BRITAIN'S ...

... Vegetables . Lifting of maincrop potatoes should now be completed while the weather remains so favour able. They should be stored in a cool frost proof shed in bags or laid out on and covered with straw. Generally tubers are free from disease this season, but if disease is suspected they should be sprinkled with a mixture of slaked lime and flowers of sulphur. Outdoor tomatoes will probably ...

... THE Ministry's cropping policy for 1941 has been widely advertised, but its main points are summarised here for a good reason. First, the points:-- (1) Arable before grassland. Committees to have the direction. (2) Milk supply must be maintained. Oats, roots, kale, etc., to be grown for the winter of 1941-2. Summer grazing to be mostly reserved for dairy herds. (3) More wheat, more beans to be ...

... By Our Flying Correspondent FEW neater or quicker countermoves have been made than the one against the night raiding bomber last week. The night raider was proving very troublesome, especially when there was low-hanging cloud and the searchlights could not get at him. The result was that the people of London and other large cities had to listen to enemy machines droning overhead and ...

... DETWEEN sixty and seventy young members of the Old Berkeley Pony Club, accompanied by their mothers and aunts and a few fathers in uniform turned out for the mounted gymkhana at Great Westwood, King's Langley. An excellent entry, considering present conditions. Proceeds went to the Red Cross. R0SEMAR1 BARRA7T. daughter of the Joint-Master, was first in the handy pony competition for twelve ...

... SOME vivid pictures of tunny-fishing in Long Island, State of New York, showing the skill of Sam Collins, mate of Captain Eldred's fishing-boat, the Empress Ann. THE BAIT IS ACCEPTED Sam hooks into a lively fifty-pound tuna and the battle is about to begin. mmaa*/' sn am i ...

... HOW wonderful it is to think that war or no war, the memory of Harry Vardon is still fresh in the minds of the members at the South Herts Golf Club, Totteridge, where the Great Harry spent over 30 years of his life as professional. At the Ked Cross match, successfully organised by the club, apart from the interest in the game, which could only claim to have entertainment value, with its ...

... AND what, inquires a retired Indian Army officer somewhere in England, does a Gossip Boy do when the sirens sound? I wouldn't know. I, personally, grab a handy grip well stocked with the barest neces sities (my Benzedrine rations, enough white ties to last a week, and a well-thumbed copy of A Hundred Things a Boy Can Do, in ilimp calf), and make a dive for the nearest ■Inga Anderson ...

... . By A. Croxton Smith DOGGY people now have the opportunity of showing their public spirit by presenting a Dog Fighter to the R.AF., the Kennel Club having opened a Dog Fighter Fund, to which all are invited to contribute according to their means. Subscriptions should be sent to the Secretary, the Kennel Club. 8 A. Piccadilly. London. W.L The term dog fight has become so familiar in the ...

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... NET-MAKING FOR THE RED CROSS: Girls and boys of the Plympton Grammar School, Plymouth, arc using their spare time to make nets of various kinds, and the proceeds of the sale of their work is given to the Red Cross. AUSTRALIA1 S WATTLES The Women's Auxiliary Training League in Australia is the counterpart of our A.T.S. and Land Army, and they do all sorts of inh t including driving those mighty ...