... THE problem of feeding some seventy employees in war time conditions on Mr. David Lloyd George's estate, Bron-y-de, Churt, Surrey, has been solved and celebrated in a novel manner. The celebration took place on the ex-Prime Minister's 79th birthday. The solution was provided by Haslemere Urban District Council. An insulated motor van brings hot food to the restaurant, which has been made out ...

... MR. R. ROADNIGHT, who has a considerable farm at Britwell Salome, Watlington, Oxon, is a great believer in horse-traction, the use of which he has brought to a fine art. The two-wheeled gear and coupling illus trated ensures great economy of time for example, while the four-wheeled dung-cart is being unloaded and spread, the horses are free to return for another load. Other of Mr. Roadnight's ...

... TO care for the many- horses still being used by the Army, there is the Royal Army Veter inary Corps, with its hospitals and convales cent homes. These pic tures give an idea of a typical day's activities at one of the hospitals, where the sick and injured are treated, so that they are fit to play their part in the war machine. This part may yet prove to be a bigger one than we thought likely ...

... AMERICAN agriculturists, obsessed with their grave pre-war problems, reacted sharply to reality in 1935-39, and sought to reorient their farming on principles of a balanced agriculture. Now, faced with a new set of world conditions, they have sheered away from maximum wheat and cotton production in order to meet world requirements of high -protein foods-- poultry, pork, dairy products. They ...

... Jk \H°V SEVERN HANDICAP 'CHASE takes its name from the river flowing alongside the course. Lord Stalbridge's Tallin is leading over the water second time round. W. Hollick, in Mr. C. H. Blunt' s claret and yellow checks is riding Le Titien III. Black Brother won the race easily for Lieut. -Colonel N. Furlong. A BIG FIELD of nineteen runners was saddled for the Coventry Handicap 'Chase. Here ...

... Royal Horses and the Classics Rationalisation What the Public Expects. A FIRST glance at the reopened entries for the 1942 classic races is re- assuring. There are 43 entries for the New Two Thousand Guineas compared with 53 last year, and 54 for the One Thousand compared with 50; for the New Derby there are 56 against 65, and for the New St. Leger, 72 against 81. The dates and venues do not ...

... The role of avaricious sister as well as hard-hearted wife is played by 44 THE Bette Davis as Retina Hubbard, in 44 The Little Foxes. Here she is LITTLE with her two merchant brothers Ben Hubbard (left), played by Charles tl Dingle and Oscar Hubbard, played by Carl Benton Reid. FOXES Herbert Marshall, as Regina Hubbard's ailing bank-manager husband, dies heartbroken at the realisation of his ...

... &.&c. S.&C. AM// //i, /{J/^. [HIS magnificently ornate pendant in rich gilt colour brass was the last word in G.E.C. lighting fittings for the smart drawing-room of 1914. But designs change. Lighting methods improve. Science never stands still. The G.E.C., pioneers in everything electrical for the home, continued to progress during the last war. In this war, also, the G.E.C. is helping to ...

... AWAY back in 1920, Mr. Harry Ferguson, one of the biggest motor-car dealers in Northern Ireland, had an idea for a new agri- cultural implement. He wanted to cure what he considered to be the technical sin of the conventional tractor, that it drags the plough or other farm implements as a dead weight behind it. To get all important soil penetration the ordinary two-wheeled plough must be heavy ...

... AT Wisley the Royal Horticultural Society is growing many vege- tables and carrying out experi- ments to help food production. The Society, too, has recently published an excellent book on vegetable growing; yet a visit to the Royal Horticultural Society's Hall at Vincent Square, London, last week prompted the thought that the Society had never heard of the war. It is true that m the centre of ...

... Guards XI. Defeated at Lord's IN a one-day match, the United Hospitals beat a Holding Battalion of the Coldstream Guards by an innings and 34 runs. For the Hospitals (who declared at 216 for eight), chief batting honours went to the second-wicket partnership C. S. Gardner and P. H. Thompson, who scored 101 and 44 respectively. B. H. D. Robinson did the hat trick. The King and Queen at ...

... C^acLtadf tc Port AN absent-minded man called upon his old friend, the family doctor. After chatting for a couple of hours, the doctor saw him to the door and, as he was shaking hands, said: Come again soon, old chap, family all well, I hope? Good heavens exclaimed his visitor, that reminds me. My wife's in a fit. At a well-known sports ground in West Riding the gatekeeper would say at ...