... 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., ...

... 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 ...

... C^oc Licit Is to Port TWO Scots soldiers were soberly discussing the future. Man I saia une, ua and half Asia are overrun by the enemy. France has given in. hat ll happen if the English capitulate Well, replied the other, I'm fearin' it'll be a long dour war. Landlord (to motorist who had been carried into his inn after an accident) Yes, sir, ycu had a very bad smash, but I managed to bring ...

... 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 ...