... By A. Croxton Smith THOUGH puppies are often provoking in their playfulness, it is unusual for older dogs to resent any roughness or teasing. The most they do is to move away or give a pat with the paw, as if saying to themselves, Children will be children. In the same way dogs will put up with a good deal of hard usage from children, such as would not be tolerated from adults. Thev teem to ...

... T T MEIGH (St Edmund Hall) and Mary Blake (St. Hugh's) are two of the 192 undergraduates V M JY nLi Sr. irirls from Oxford and other Universities) who took a two weeks course in J. (112 ,m.e 1 8 Hampden Field Station of the Oxford Agricultural Research Institute. The undergraduates arc now scattered over the country, imparting what they have learned to as many The undergraciu Oundle Winchester ...

... By Our Horticultural Correspondent THE Englishman's love of the rose is proverbial; and his interest becomes a fascination when he decides to try his hand at rose budding. This is the most usual method of propagation and need not interfere with other gardening activities for the best time to carry it out--July to Septem ber--is when there is comparatively little to be done in the garden. w ith ...

... MANY people have gathered the first dishes of green peas; when a good quantity of pods have formed on the lower part of the haulm it is a good plan to pinch out the tops of the plants. The energy is thus diverted to filling out the remaining pods which mature quickly and are therefore improved in quality and flavour. Those who made an early start will now have early potatoes ready. Their ...

... By Our Flying Correspondent AT many Royal Air Force aerodromes an attempt is being made to use some of the ground that is available for small scale agricultural purposes, and the Air Ministry has taken the wise course of doing everything it can to encourage the enterprise of the stations in this respect. It seems that there is still scope for a larger and more co-ordinated scheme than anything ...

... Good husbandry Sf v -'m- V, Since the dawn of agriculture, man's struggle has ever Been to make two ears of corn grow where one grew before. To thi#%nd Caterpillar Tractors were invented. To increase farming efficiency tajWiake easigr the keeping of land in good heart to do quicker, cheaper and better.all those jobs which abound on a farm to enable one man to do the work of nupy Stort is ...

... Remarkable School Cricket Uulwich and Merchant Taylors DULWICH College, who had already dismissed St. Paul's for 33, U.C.S. for 16, K.C.S. Wimbledon for 10 and Epsom for 101, blitzed Merchant Taylors, who like themselves had been unbeaten in school matches this season, in a remarkable game at Dulwich. Dulwich lost five wickets for 15, but, thanks to a captain's innings by T. E. Bailey, who ...

... COUPONS t INFLUENCE I FASHIONS Coat Frocks Return Rouleau Tie Fastenings- Short Wedding Trains. THE subject of coupons for clothes is still being discussed its influence is very far- reaching. As a matter of fact, bridal trains will be shorter and more often than not con spicuous by their absence. Coat frocks have returned both with and without neat, detachable basques, as they can be worn ...

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... HOT WEATHER WARFARE Conditions in the Libyan Desert Amidst the Heat and the Sand Described by Major C. S. JARVIS OUR troops operating, in Libya are now experiencing the full blaze of the summer heat, which will continue with slight variations in intensity until the middle of September, when, with the approach of autumn, there will be an appreciable cooling off. The temperature in this desert ...

... ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND MILES at SEA-- H. M.S. Tartar's Wartime Steaming Record THE Tyneside shipbuilders and engineers in Messrs. Swan Hunter and Wigham Richardson's Yard share with all hands on board H.M. Flotilla Leader Tartar, of the Tribal class, intense pride in the astounding steaming performance of that ship, which claims to be the first to have completed 100,000 miles at sea since the ...

... By Foresight Cabinet Branch Office THE plan to set up a branch office of the War Cabinet in Cairo-- novel as it is on first impression, but highly important as a constructive development-- had been germinating in the Prime Minister's mind for some time. Originally he hoped that Field Marshal Smuts (who prefers still to be known as General except on most formal occasions) would be able to ...