... 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 ...

... Engaged the Hon. Priscilla Brett Harlif) The engagement is announced of the Hon. Priscilla Leonie Helen Brett, youngest daughter of Viscount and Viscountess Esher of Wathngton Park. Oxon., to Sir Martyn Beckett. Bt„ Welsh Guards of Kirkdale Manor, Nawton Yorkshire. He is the son of the late Hon. Sir Gervase Beckett 'and of Lady Marjor.e Beckett; succeeded in 19.37 is a cousin of the Earl of ...

... Gunman by choice is Gary Cooper who has a fine collection of pistols and revolvers of all sizes and periods. His passion is big- game hunting, and that 's what he does whenever he has long enough between pictures to go that far. He has just finished work on a new film called 44 Meet John Doe, in which Barbara Stanwyck is the girl friend Gunman by profession on the screen that is is Humphrey ...

... P By Pamela Murray A( Government House THE Duke and Duchess of Windsor saw the New Year in at a dance for war charities at the Jungle Club, which does not live up to its name. The decor is about as savage as the Midland Hotel, Manchester. The Duchess wore a summery white dress, trimmed with her favourite deep blue. In cidentally, she bought it in Paris before the war. The American Press enjoys ...

... By Richard King Ghosts and Their Meaning As one grows older one revises one's scale of sins. Mostly I am not to-day in the least shocked by the kind of conduct which used to send shudders right down my grandmother's back if one so much as approached within a hundred miles of the subject. Though most people, I believe, improve with the years-- and, if they don't, then it is an outrage to live ...

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