... THE Wibberley Acre has received so much publicity that its history and working need only be briefly recapitulated. Illus trated Sporting and Dramatic News is mainly concerned with presenting some of its features in pictorial form. The history of the Acre is bound up with the personality of its founder Tom Wibber ley. Criticised for his theory that an acre of land could support four people, he ...

... cmcf L^o-wn lAe /att^f ON December 31 there were over 21,700 members of the W.L.A. in employment.-- From an official notice. The Spring and summer campaign on the land calls for an unprecedented effort, to be launched within a few weeks. There is a known shortage of skilled male labour and much help is expected of the W.L.A. Recruits are coming in well but where are they Certainly not on the ...

... By Our Horticultural Correspondent ACCORDING to the gardening calendars it is possible to start the sowing of vegetable seeds outdoors towards the end of February or early March. But beware of strictly following such advice. Calendars cannot forecast weather con ditions and the state of the soil, the two most important factors to consider. At the present time most soils are saturated to the ...

... The No Trouble Investment Issued by The National Savings Committee A Yes I've got Dad to buy some of his Savings Certificates through our School Savings Group. Every 15/- he puts in will grow like billy-o till it's £1. 0. 6 in ten years and he won't have to pay a penny Income Tax on the increase. DAD'S GONE BACK TO SCHOOL AGAIN i ...

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... Food Will Beat the Guns A Million Starving Germans Behind a Million Guns. They Cannot Win THE answer to the Nazi edict, Guns Before Butter, has been slow in coming, but it is at last being framed in terms which must chill the hearts of Hitler and his associates. Their system, which served its purpose well in the early days of the Dictatorship, was a short-term system, designed to cover the ...

... A Memorable Waterloo Cup Swinging Light Wins for lecond Year in Succession By D. H. Watson-Wood A WATERLOO CUP record that has stood for over forty years was equalled when Mr. C. Molyneux Cohan, the well-known Liverpool sportsman, won the trophy for the second year in succession with Swinging Light by Dee Rock out of Beaut. Last greyhound to perform such a feat was Fearless Footsteps in 1900 ...

... Look to Our Woods Germany, Too, Cuts Her Timber, but Replants Everywhere TIMBER is now an all-important product of our island. Imports from Scan dinavia and the Baltic countries have ceased, and though timber is available in other parts of the world, shipping space is needed for more vital sinews of war. So the tall trees of our wooded countryside are being felled by thousands to replace at ...

... When the trunks arrive at the saw-mill, a wire hawser is fixed round them and, by means of a low-geared winch on the lorry, are hauled off the timber-carriage sideways. Hauling in a load. In wet weather 44 roads in woods are so bad that lorry is unable to pull loaded carriage. Lorry goes forward about 50 yards, then carriage is pulled up to it by means of the ivi,nch. This is repeated until ...

... THE column of smoke rising straight in the still winter air, the impatient whistle of the engine-driver to the boy in the water-cart are missing, but there is still that musical hum round the farm buildings that tells they are thrashing. Here is one of the latest thrashing-machines made by Ransomes at work. It has a drum 54 in. wide and is driven by tractor. Power, in this case, is supplied by ...

... Playbill Looks at the Latest London Shows On Approval (Aldwych) IT is a long time since we had a new play by Mr. Frederick Lonsdale, though he is by no means a veteran (sixty-one, to be exact). So we have to comfort ourselves with the half-loaf of a revival. Fortunately, On. Approval is one of Mr. Lonsdale's wittiest efforts, and to me it seemed as fresh in more than one sense as on its ...

... (J UtixC (utcke^ ii/nxL kitcke^ nx >*t' 7 (^f^)^u1eift MASS PRODUCTION IN 13 MONTHS The above photographs show the value of pigs as a source of quick food supply for the Nation. This happy mother of eight babies, which were born on December 21st, 1941, was herself the little pig in inset above on November 22nd, 1940. She is rather a celebrity, as she brought the total number of pigs kept by ...