... 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 ...

... Country Life in Norfolk Sir Thomas and Lady Cook With Their Children at Sennowe Park Sir Thomas Cook, the Conservative M.P. for North Norfolk, and his wife have one son and two daughters, and live with their family at Sennowe Park, Guist, Norfolk. Sir Thomas is liaison officer to the Allied Forces at the War Office. He recently arranged an agricul tural tour of Norfolk for representatives of ...

... By Elizabeth Bowen Youth on the Ranch MRS. AGNES MORLEY CLEAVELAND'S No Life for a Lady, having achieved a wide success in America, now makes its bow here (published by Michael Joseph, at 15s.). Lively pen-drawings of broncos, cattle, cow boys, Western small-town main streets with saloons, snakes, shacks, lassos, bridles, horse men, grizzlies and rabbits, and other fauna, head and tail every ...

... freppes t See its sparkling clearness as it bubbles in your glass. Take a deep draught. How clean and crisp it is on the 1 tongue. Could you have believed that water could taste so satisfying G#ppes i v MALVERN SPA Just as delightful blended with spirits ...

... The Highway nf Fashion by M. E. Brooke Planning the Winter Wardrobe In a few brief weeks the new coupons may be spent, and what pleasure this will afford. The planning of the wardrobe must he done with the utmost care. A visit to Swan and Edgar, Piccadilly, is warmly to be recommended. It is in the Stock Size department that the dress portrayed above may be seen. It is carried out in a soft, ...

... IN a modern Army depot, dis- persal is a prime factor to be considered, with the result that the intervening spaces are unoccupied. These spaces can be left as natural camouflage, or developed by farm ing, and still retain camouflage value. In a depot in the Midlands, food production is being undertaken side by side with Army operations. The site of the depot is grassland which had not been ...

... AX a South Coast town a War Agricultural Executive Committee has set up a record in quick harvesting. On the Friday evening, the Committee's representative had a message from the War Office to say that 160 acres of land which was under cultivation must be cleared of all crops by the following midday, as the ground would be required for the Army At once the job of rounding up machinery was set ...