... ALREADY considerable numbers of airmen turned out by the 100 British Commonwealth air training schools in Canada are fighting with our Forces. Many more are in training. These photo graphs, taken at an establishment in Ontario, show something of the con centrated work necessary to make a pilot, air gunner, wireless operator, or observer. Rotund and jovial Instructor H. A. Hardie is giving last ...

... A Paying Crop By Our Horticultural Correspondent RUNNER beans should now occupy attention. They can be sown outdoors from now onwards, but plants raised in the green house should not be put out for another week or two, and still further delay is advisable if the cold north-east winds continue. Nothing is more damaging to newly transplanted plants than the conditions experienced in the last few ...

... AND^rAMATIcSr Go To It IVlth TjtMpleK T and Get I here! Friday, april a, 1941. (j$ The Illustrated SPORTING and DRAMATIC News SPORT COUNTRY ...

... By Ashley Courtenay TRAVELLING on that slowest of trains, the Tivvy express, which seems to invariably start late from Exeter and dawdle its way up the Exe Valley, I got into conversation with a parson from Kent, who enquired tenderly after the fishing prospects in the Exe and the Barle, and from fish the subject naturally drifted to hotels. He asked about the Carnarvon Arms at Dulverton and ...

... The Army's Agriculture cheme THERE is a popular idea that the Army authorities are encouraging the troops to establish pig farms, to help in the harvests and, in their spare time, to cultivate little garden plots. This is so, but what is not generally realised is that, for some time past, the military have been creating an organisation designed to achieve a serious food-producing effort. This ...

... CONSIDERABLE areas of land are, of course, already being farmed by War Agricultural Executive Committees, and the scope of their work is being extended every day. One wonders, in fact, where it is all going to end. The answer, we suggest, is that appropriate action should soon be taken by the Government to take over and farm some of the larger areas permanently, that is, after the war. It is ...

... Stocking thi Tool Shed By Our Horticultuil Correspondent TO completely stock the tool shed with every implement and every item of equipment which one may require at some future date may cost as much as the value of the produce in the first season. A good many people therefore adopt the very sensible plan of buying the tools required for immediate use, adding others as their use becomes ...

... SPLENDID trade with average prices well in advance of last year's figures is reported from the Reading Cattle Market where the fourth spring show and sale of Dairy Shorthorns organised by the Shorthorn Society was held last week. A number of beef shorthorn bulls were also entered by members of the Southern, Midland and Welsh Shorthorn Breeders' Association. Entries were good though slightly ...

... Current :ilms Stories by Shaw and after Conrad, direction by Hitchcock and the Co-operation of the U.S. Navy, make a lively selection MAJOR BARBARA With a suitable flourish of trumpets the first film premiere for a long long time in fact 44 Major Barbara has come to the Odeon. Like 44 Pygmalion the film has had Shaiv's special care and attention he wrote the scenario and all the dialogue and ...

... Worth-while Easter C*it*ts IN the main, the giving of presents this Easter should be dis couraged, but there is one form of gift-- the gift of money to deserving causes-- that should not be discon tinued, whatever other economies are ractised. The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, is in urgent need of funds. Bombed homes, evacuation, and the loss of a parent on active ...

... Grass-Drying A Way to Replace Imported Oil Cakes By L. F. Newman ABOUT twenty-five years ago the possi bility of grass-drying on a large scale attracted the notice of English agricul turists and became a matter of practical interest. The term is not a very good one, as there are several methods of artificial drying as well as the old natural one of hanging wet grass on wooden frames, the wind ...

... cmcf T^OWT? WE are not short of ideas of our own, but we feel constrained to call attention to an idea recently propounded by Air. Ferdinand Tuohy in The Sphere. Mr. Tuohy, like ourselves, is not impressed by the necessity for serving up the Victory symbol in unnecessary media. He takes the view that it should be the prosiac function of our own people, in our own country, to double the effort ...