... Next Week's Work in the Garden Vegetables Readers whose gardens are near the coast are reminded that seaweed is quite useful as a fertiliser. Although it does not possess all the constituents of a first-class manure, it contains half as much phosphoric acid as stable manure and twice as much potash. Its nitrogen content is about 10 lb. per ton, and it also contains valuable mineral salts. Its ...

... TITHE barns came into existence in 1200, when tithes were ordered to be paid to the local parish. As the due was one-tenth of the farmers' produce, plenty of storage room was needed. In the hundred years since the change in the tithe system in 1836, many of these barns, all of them superb examples of old English craftsmanship, have either fallen into ruin or been destroyed. But in recent years ...

... FIVE TO ONE We have been reading an excellent Ministry blurb introducing the Five to One on the Land Series of broadcasts. Here is an extract from it But the nation is now being helped and very materially, by a great army of farmers in miniature the 3,000,000 private gardeners, the 1,500,000 allotment holders, the small pig keepers with 10,000 pigs in whitewashed styes, the backyard poultry- ...

... LARGE AND SMALL SEED. Those forming the larger heap are of good seed size, averaging 2 to 21 oz. each in weight. Those on the right are rather large for seed and for reasons of economy may be cut lengthways, in this manner leaving an equal number of eyes to each half. The cut sets must not be exposed to drying conditions, and gardeners gener ally dust the cut surfaces with slaked lime to seal ...

... Mapping the Soil by G. W. Robinson University College of North Wales Bangor Director of Soil Surveys for England and Wales It was William the Conqueror who ordered the first I survey of England the Domesday Book which told him exactly the worth of the land he had conquered. This Royal Commission was very thorough, and in a little over a year had assessed to the last penny the J value of every ...

... s i A I T I LI R M D A I Y N T 2 I I N I G A Saturday afternoon meet is a war-time feature of the South Berks and gives many people an opportunity they would otherwise miss. Here are some of the field moving off in the extensive woods at Mortimer West End, I near Beading. Below, the deputy master, Mr. Geoffrey Palmer, is giving Victor Clarke, I the huntsman, inslruc- I Hons toliere to draw I ...

... FOOTBALL Vikc Francis, Nebraska full-back, dashes across Stanford University' s goalline to open the scoring four minutes after the start of the Rose Bowl game at Pasa dena, California. DIVING CHAMPION: Dorothy Poynlon, three times Olympic diving champion, is on location with the film unit producing The Sea Wolf, to give a hand if any of the cast get into difficulties in the water. John ...

... By A. Croxton Smith NO one who knows the Dingo in his native haunts has a good word to say for him. Mention him to an Australian and you incite a desire for a shotgun or poison. The reason for this animosity is apparent. I do not know which the Australians would classify as Public Enemy No i the Dingo or the rabbit, for both do untold damage. Perhaps the rabbit is the worse for through the per ...

... I l and Down tlie Land REPORTS coming in tend to show that the rationing scheme has made a much better start than was prophesied for it. Where there were delays in issuing coupons the temporary measures provided a good stop-gap for immediate needs; the merchants seemed only too pleased to supply a fortnight's feeding stuffs against farmers' promises to repay (in the shape of coupons). The ...

... By our Horticultural Correspondent I PRESUME that by now you have obtained your supplies of vegetable seeds, and if your reactions on their arrival are the same as mine your fingers will be itching to put some of them into the ground, for this is surely one of the most congenial tasks in the whole gardening calendar. The greater part of the hard slogging which the digging involves has been ...

... GARTH MEMORIES This picture (right) will bring back many happy memories to followers of the Garth. It is of Martin who was for many years head keeper to the late Duke of Wellington, and W. Daniels, huntsman to the Garth since 1920. Martin's presence has become inseparable from the Friday meets of the Garth. The Hunt's recent meet at Heckfield is the subject of our cover illustration this week. ...

... Winchester Too Good for Eton --6--0 Win in Revived Fixture PLAYING Eton after a lapse of several years, Winchester, on their own ground, won a fast game by 6 goals to nil. They might have had more goals had their shooting been more accurate and had not Pemberton, the Eton goalkeeper, made several splendid saves. For Winchester, Stow played a brilliant game on the left wing and had an effective ...