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... Harvest Home A Challenge to the Electorate IMPERIAL CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES have sponsored a most courageous film, written and produced with great sincerity. A sentimental public might easily have swallowed a film on traditional Harvest Home lines, in keeping with the title of the play. The authors, however, have a far more important and sterner message to present. They have stripped the story ...
... By Our Horticultural Correspondent THE fruit grower's year ends and begins in the autumn. Gathering and storage of apples marks the end of one season and this is closely followed by preparations for planting new trees and bushes as a prelude to the next. On a lollowing page Or. West, ot the Ditton Laboratory, discusses the points which contribute to successful fruit storage. Some of his advice ...
... By R. W. Kidner ABBOTS FARM and West Green Farm constitute 1000 acres-- all in one ring fence. The land varies from blue clay to light sand and gravel. There are two main features of the farming at Stoke Holy Cross on which I concentrate, the first being the pedigree herd of Attested Dairy Shorthorns, which to-day numbers some 200 head, and the other the production of all-the-year- round ...
... avicf TRACTOR POWER is still being wasted, although we can only budget for a very small intake of tractors, tractor ploughs, spare parts, etc., from U.S.A. in 1942-3, plus our home-produced quota. The United States of America, turning over completely to war-organised machinery output and allocations, is performing wonders, but it has its limitations. For example, the manufacture of all small ...
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... By A. Croxton Smith LITTLE Malta, G.C., tucked away so cosily in the Mediter ranean sixty miles to the south of Sicily, has come to be known locally as Siren Isle. It cannot be a great way from the island upon which the seductive ladies were supposed to have lived, but the music it hears daily is different from their songs. None the less, the efforts of Fritz to carry terror to the ...
... IN 1905 a young Leicestershire farmer addressed his county's Chamber of Agriculture, and, in giving, detailed costings for a farm of 200 acres, he said We have noted that there is a profit of 15s, 3d. on the grass and 1 is. 6d. on the arable per acre, and when we take into consideration the amount of trouble in manage ment and dependence on the weather of the plough compared with pasture, is ...
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... The Little Sisters Their I 'm/aesi ionintf Faith Tirronyht a i\tiraele on a Hard Boiled It tt fe lt ow.se Trainer By Eve Orme A PALL hung over the city of Calcutta, for it was the end of June, and the rains were breaking. So great was the humidity, that the rich box wallahs who inhabited the large white houses, took spare shirts and bath towels with them to the club, against the effect of ...
... BRISTLES are off the market for the rest of the war, so treat existing brooms and brushes with respectful care. Wash them frequently because corroding dirt increases injury. Use warm, soapy water with a little ammonia. Stand to dry with the bristles off the ground, or, better still, hang them. Never put brooms awav with the bristles down If bristles have become badly crushed, try steaming them ...
... Health and Beauty 1 BY OIBYSIS If you leant help icith your beauty troubles or further details of any- thing mentioned in this article, write to me at Commonwealth House,! New Oxford Street, W.C.I /fVy if. of O J **o.. 9e|> 'st Oot *to,t ft j *t THEIR houses are in order, their children at school or older, and they find themselves called upon to help war workers. As they prepare to emerge ...
... Walking too early will cause bandiness and distortion of the bones in little children Formerly when rickets (softening of the bone structure) was far more prevalent than now owing to ignorance with regard to the principles of diet, this was true. In the absence of rickets when the bones are healthy they will normally support the weight as soon as nature indicates that the time is ripe for ...