... Prinknash Abbey A Community War Effort RELIGIOUS communities in this country are, of course, exempted from military service. In practice, the exemption is rarely claimed, because so many priests and padres have volunteered for the Forces, and because the majority of those that remain are engaged in all-important national work. Prinknash Abbey, under the direction of the Right Reverend Dom ...

... SOME years ago an American patent made its appearance on this side of the Atlantic. It was a patent for a heavy metal casting shaped to fit over the head of any wooden golf club and to slip on to the head by going down the shaft, to be fastened to the head by a spring clip. This invention was known as the Swing- master and was devised to make a heavy practice club out of any wooden club, ...

... Look Out for Trouble By Our Horticultural Correspondent PESTS and diseases, late frosts, cold, boisterous winds, drought and weeds-- such are the potential troubles against which every gardener must now be on his guard, I am sorry to begin this week's page on such a gloomy note, but one or all of these abominations are an ever-present problem, and nobody-- much less a gardening writer-- can ...

... /\N May 2, the first of an interesting series of Saturday matches took place at Lord's, and the London Fire Service were successful in winning a single-innings match against Reading University by 8 wickets, or a two-innings game by an innings and 15 runs. On which basis the victories of these one-day matches are decided is a point which needs some clarification, but why worry the historic ...

... By Our Flying Correspondent IT is common knowledge that aircraft are becoming more and more exigent about aerodrome space. As the wing loadings, or amount of weight carried by each square foot of wing surface, go up, so the taking-off and landing runs are lengthened. Actual figures for British machines are not given. They are looked on and rightly as secret except where the machine is an old ...

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... Benedictine 'lonks on Their 100-Acre Farm Woods have been cleared and the timber satvn for use in the monastery. The poultry flock consists of 300 -s ex-linked pullets raised from day -old chicks. Mangolds being unearthed from a bury for essential winter feed for the cattle. Farm implements need constant repair and the blacksmith is never idle. Back for another load. A mixed farm like thir ...

... avicf WE welcome the support given to the Good Neighbour policy by Dr. Temple, Cardinal Hinsley, and Dr. John Wahle. Is it too much to hope that our spiritual leaders will endeavour to secure much more practical aid from the clergy in the form of sermons and prayers relating to agricultural needs? The churches have a wonderful oppor tunity of bringing home to their congrega tions urban and ...

... In the Vinery Hints for those Now Without Gardeners IT takes a good many years to master the art of grape culture-- no wonder the amateur feels somewhat at a loss when the vinery is left to his tender mercies owing to the call up of the gardener. For the benefit of many who are so placed, I give a few hints on current routine. JNearly every spur on the main vine rod will produce from three ...

... MOSS BROS.) Service far Flying Visitors There's a feeling of Spring in the air, remarked a flying officer who had come in to see us. 'I noticed it early yesterday morning over Cologne. Do you think, he asked anxiously, I could have a new uniform before the feeling vanishes If you could preserve the feeling for a minute or two, sir, we assured him, it can be done 1 lie did and it was. We ...

... Weather Lore Home-Made Humidity Gauge By E. L. HAWKE Secretary of the Royal Meteorological Society HOW much weather lore do you know? If you have enough of it to fill a sheet of notepaper you can probably count yourself better informed than the majority of your fellow countrymen. Yet our standard English treatise on the subject devotes 206 octavo pages to recording the adages and rules which ...