... 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 ...

... rpHIS has been a hard winter for the farmer, who has not been able to get on with his ploughing, and for the stockman, whose charges have been made miserable by icy winds and sun less days. Last week the sun came back, and in the Royal County we found these happy pictures on Mr. Gilbert Beale's Church Farm, which nestles by the River Thames. The land-girls had dis carded their heavy coats, and ...

... THE Society's Spring Show and Sale at Chelmsford pro duced some excellent pigs and high subse quent prices. Messrs. John Thornton, Hob- son and Co., who con ducted the sale, dis posed of no lots at an average of £27 16s. 3d. Twenty boars aver aged £39 4s. 4d., and fifty-four gilts, far rowed in 1 94 1, aver aged £31 8s. 5d. Top price was fetched at 90 guineas by Messrs. W. Dennis and Sons' ...

... a/iitf T^crwn IT now seems very likely that we and our Allies-- the United Nations as we pro claim ourselves-- cannot lose this war, and with it all that makes life worth living, except through our own fault or their own fault; our own failure to use our combined strength, overwhelming strength when fully mobilised, and to organise and use the multiplying opportunities which as the months ...

... By Mrs. N. Fielding-Johnson APART from the many thousands of women working as employees on the farms there is a growing number of women who are becoming farmers in their own right. Last February we asked Mrs. Donaldson to describe how she turned to the land in the early days of the war and, after a period of training at the Moulton Institute, bought a farm of which she is now the active head. ...

... ■■-JT I FOUND it tantalising the other day to look down the theatre list and read of Mr. Tom Walls starring in one play and Mr. Ralph Lynn starring in another. Whenever are these two first-rate farce-comedians going to get together again and revive memories of that fine team of the old days at the Aldwych Theatre? 3For team-work in the theatre is vastly important, and to-day, although it is ...

... By Harry Lamb THERE was a time when ploughmen in Cumberland would walk miles on a Sunday to see each other's ploughing. That was forty years ago or more, when there was nothing but swing ploughs and when ploughing was a real art. Most of us who graduated in that school thought the introduction of the wheel plough had killed all interest in the craft, but the revival of competitions in the ...

... Gordon's Standi Siipteme TANOUERAY GORDON A CO LTD GIN DISTILLERS. LONDON >34 [J lie Iwufeil (fin dUtilliM in the woild the Gin /i^\ per bottle h'bottle 9/0 J \\bottle4fQ J I 'Alio GORDON'S ORANGE AND LEMON GINS Bottles 17/- 4-bottles 9/- I Gordon's shaker COCKTAILS Bottles 13/- '-bottles 6/9 The prices apply to fit. Britain and N. Ireland His is H 1 1 CjbJ*. ...

... APRIL 3, 1942 7>ijp/eAT the safety glass fortnightly^ The Illustrated SPORTIN G and DRAMATIC Neats ORT AND COUNTRY ...

... By Our Horticultural Correspondent MORE haste, less speed has a special significance for the vege table grower just now. In a late season like this, there is a great rush to make up for lost time. The tempta tion is to crowd into a few days the work which would normally be spread over several weeks. Nevertheless, bumper crops -nothing less should be everybody's objective this year, and it ...

... June with the much-reduced flock of pullets 1200 to 1500 have dwindled, on account of shortage of food, to 350. Washing the cows at the midday rhilking. Cows giving six gallons and over are usually milked at 6 a.m., 1 p.m. and 8 p.m. for a period at the peak of their lactation. A 56-lb. truss of hay is nothing to Rosa, who is the ideal type of volunteer for the W.L.A. Brawn must be combined ...

... , Coventry , Coventrj I The day 1 will come The day will come when flags will be unfurled and waved by joyous hands When black-out curtains will be torn down from the windows When gas-masks will be packed away as treasured souvenirs of the war When Tommy will be seen in civvies once again When fighting between nations will have ceased for evermore. The time will come when gleaming new Standard ...