... OUR pictures illustrate a section of the work being done by land girls in Oxfordshire. Since they were taken, W.L.A. gangs have been concentrating on threshing. Bush-pulling, however, is a part of the long-term policy which is essential if new acres are to be cul tivated for the 1942-3 crops, and we have endeavoured to show what has been accomplished already with almost raw material. The ...

... The weather is the farmer's and gardener's greatest profit maker if he can predict it with success. If he cannot, then it can ruin him and lose the country thousands of tons of food. The Air Ministry weather forecast was free to all. With the War we are thrown back on our own resources when we had almost forgotten how to judge the weather for ourselves. A barometer to-day is as necessary ...

... awcf ALL the critics seem satisfied with the recent British raid in the Havre area. It was, of course, a fine piece of work technically, but its great value-- at any rate in this country-- was psychological. Some thing positive had been done. It is this positive policy which the masses are so anxious to see in our Government councils, and it is a pleasure to put on record that, at any rate, ...

... MISS ANNE TAYLOR, for merly a member of the Ballet Joos, was going with the company to America when the war broke out. She decided, however, that there was more important work to be done, and joined the W.L.A. Posted to Mr. J. Allen's farm, South Tre- viddo, near Lis- keard in Cornwall, Miss Taylor quick ly became accus tomed to country life. South Tre- viddo is mainly a dairy farm, but the ...

... The Answer to Goebbels Keep Sport Going THAT part of the debate in the House on Wednesday, February 25, relating to sport was so seriously misquoted in several journals that I for one am grateful to the Daily Telegraph of the following day for putting the matter right. This is how their reporter explained the statement: Cheers stopped Sir Stafford in the middle of a sentence in which he said ...

... By A. Croxton Smith ARE show dogs delicate? Perhaps this may seem to be a foolish question to ask when the only fair answer that can be given has to be hedged about by qualifications and interlarded with ifs and buts. The most one can say is that some are and some are not, a reply that would apply equally to working dogs or mongrels. When canine hysteria began to run through the country, a few ...

... Agriculture's General Staff Who They Are and Why THE Ministry of Agriculture has been for some time engaged in forming and completing what is in effect a General Staff, although, with appropriate modesty, it has preferred to style the members of the staff as its Liaison Officers. Agriculture, happily, has not felt itseli obliged to prop itself up with anything so grand as a Brains Trust. There ...

... THE WAR AND THE WOMAN WORKER Problems which Confront the Minister of Labour in His Task of Grading Women for the Munition-Factories Described by CHARLES GRAVES I HAVE just been over two factories belonging to one of the biggest armament firms in the world. There is no doubt about it, the munition- workers in most factories work tremendously hard and tremendously long hours-- 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. ...

... Some children are born with a natural talent for amusing themselves. Others are at a loss and turn to mischief for amusement when nothing else offers. Some of the cold, wet days that we get in early spring become a major problem if children happen to be of the kind that need constant entertaining. There is no rest for anybody unless someone can efficiently organise an antidote to boredom. ...

... KEEP WELL THE SEA These men, 'whereon, under the The timely arrival of mobile good Providence of God, the canteens in out-of-the-way places where wealth, safety, and strength of the duty sends them is often the event of Kingdom chiefly depend,* deserve all the day or night to which they look our thanks and support. Through the forward most keenly. War Service Fund of the you The task is ...

... WAY OF THE WAR By foresight Lethargy THE loss of Singapore is more disturbing in lengthening retrospect than it was in contemplation. There are two reasons which make me feel this very deeply. In contemplating the fall of this costly naval stronghold (as all wise men must have done) one found opinion steady and convinced that there was going to be an historic stand. It was one of those ...

... The Tatler and Bystander in Town and Country The Queen's Interest HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN has been round and about a good deal in London of late, and the charm of her smiling presence has added to the pleasure and dis tinction of a number of different occasions, from a show of lace gifts at the Royal School of Needlework, in aid of the Fund for Officers' Families, to demonstrations of the latest ...