... By Our Motoring Correspondent ON many occasions in these pages I have urged that the Government should take a clearer line in their treatment of motoring and especially that they should give consideration to those who live in rural districts and who depend upon their own cars because there is no public transport available in their districts. Now these steps have been taken. Pleasure motoring ...

... HPHE setting of potatoes in the majority of cases is still largely accomplished by hand. The work is tiring and calls for endurance and cheerfulness from those whose backs must be bent for hours at a stretch. Mr. Walter Eddy, of Tregellas, Ludgvan, Penzance, de cided to employ Land Girls for his purpose, and was given a dozen girls recruited from a northern industrial area. They earned high ...

... THE WALLED GARDEN now encloses a precious onion bed. Gnr. Othen (left), a professional market gardener, thins it out by day and helps to keep the sky clear by night. BROCCOLI, TOO, are a growing concern. The crop has been unusually plentiful and good. This is one of several rations that the unit does not draw from outside. SPRING CABBAGES will soon be welcomed in the unit's messes. Few of the ...

... ONE can say, without fear of contradic- tion, there are no official handicaps to-day, so if someone says to you: I play from about 14 to 18 now, it can be taken to mean he was a 14 in the old days, and he is declaring his hand. 1 KUUW H UllC-dl 1I1CU gULLCI 1 KUCW 111111 long before I knew he played golf. He lost his left arm eleven days before the Armistice in 1918 eight machine-gun bullets ...

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... DON'T FORGET THE DIVER THE major consulted the M.O. about his health. Frankly, said the medicine man, it is quite apparent to me that you spend too much time in the mess. If you don't cut the drink out, spots will appear on your face. The advice and the prophecy were alike unac ceptable to the major, who laughed. In a month he again went to see the M.O., wearing the promised spots. Doc., ...

... No tender-hearted garden crowns, No bosomed woods adorn Our blunt, bow-headed, whale-backed Downs, But gnarled and writhen thorn WHEN Kipling wrote these words about his Sussex by the Sea, he little thought that the thorn would be torn from the Downs and supplanted by thousands of acres of wheat, oats, barley, sugar-beet and potatoes. And yet this is just what has happened. All in addition ...

... Killing and Curing a Pig at Home [A Contribution from a Reader] QUBJECT to local by-laws, you can kill a pig on your own premises. This solves the problem of transport, for it is easier for the licensed butcher to come to you on his bicycle, with the tools of his trade on the carrier, than it is to take a live pig to the butcher. Also, if you are of a suspicious nature well, you do know that ...

... BEES are now getting very busy, whenever there is a mild day, and if you have not already overhauled your equipment, it is high time you followed their example. Remember that if there is anything lacking, you may have a long time to wait for delivery. See also that all you have got is clean and ready for use. One visit'to each hive is all that is neces sary, or advisable, this month this is to ...

... DURING last winter a certain number of seagulls were sold (at about sixpence each) for human consumption, in London and elsewhere. In May and June the normal peacetime practice of collecting gulls eggs for food (substitutes for plovers' eggs) will be intensified, but we have not heard of any revival of the practice mentioned by Fuller in the following passage concerning an island of some 200 ...

... By Our Horticultural Correspondent HOW many different kinds of vegetables and salads from the garden and store shed have you been able to provide for the kitchen in the last month or two? The answer from most people will be three-- potatoes, parsnips and carrots. The first three months of the year are always the most difficult for variety, and the ex ceptionally severe weather this year has ...

... AROUND THE LONDON SHOPS FLANNEL HOUSE-COATS JAEGER, Regent Street, are par ticularly successful in designing house-coats which may also be worn at informal evening functions. To relax is the desire of all women after a strenuous day's work, and one may slip into these house-coats in the fraction of a second, as they are robbed of all complicated fastenings. The one illustrated above is carried ...