... T^vRIED eggs are much in the news, for it looks as though they will be the only eggs we shall eat this winter. Rather vaguely. Lord Woolton has said he hopes that everyone will get plenty, and the American hen is being encouraged to do a bigger job than she has ever done before. Actually, the in dustry was not a big one in the States, for never more th^n 10,000,000 lb. of eggs were dried in ...

... THE Minister of Economic Warfare farms some 1500 acres in Hampshire, and apples are one of the main crops which come from Blackmore Estate, near Liss. Lord Selborne has gone in for intensive cultiva tion of Cox's Orange Pippins, the trees being either cordons grown like raspberries or bush-trained. In 1941, 7000 bushels of apples were picked and this year there will be more. Apart from apples, ...

... from the Dead Sea, where a company is working on evaporation of the water. During the war of 1914-18 the use of potash was very much reduced and a considerable supply formed part of the enemy payments under the peace terms. The problem of potassium for farms is even more acute now, but common salt has the property of liberating potassium, to some extent at least, from the soil and rendering it ...

... THE tide of high prices for bloodstock con tinues to rise. At Balls- bridge, where Messrs. Robert Goff and Co. con ducted the Annual Dublin Yearling Sales, a sharp rise compared with 1940 and 1 94 1, brought averages to the vicinity of 130 guineas. The 2600 guineas paid by Lord Milton for the Mah- moud filly reflects the value of the brilliant sire, who was exported from England to the U.S.A. ...

... ROYAL New Zealand Air Force, whose Rugby team are to play several matches this season, most of them in the London area, Services duties permitting (many players, incidentally, are attached to bomber squadrons), started the season with a match against the Wasps, one of London's oldest and most enterprising Rugby clubs, at Sudbury. The Wasps, having lost their groundsman to the Services, have ...

... The Little Foxes (Piccadilly) LET no diligent reader of The Illustrated sporting and Dramatic News be intrigued by the title of the above play into imagining that it has anything whatever to do with fox-hunting. The reason for such a title is the quotation-- Take us the foxes, the little foxes that spoil the vines. There is but a single mention of sport of any kind, and that is when one ...

... The Hon. Mrs. Richard Taylor and her sons Simon and Sandy, live at Flodden House, Milfield, Northumberland. She tvas formerly the Hon. Sylvia Joicey, second daughter of the late Lord Joicey, of Ford Castle, Northumberland, and married in 1934 Major Richard Taylor, eldest son of Lieut. -Colonel and Mrs. T. G. Taylor of Chipchase Castle, Northumberland. Major Taylor is in the Northumberland ...

... -^4 By Sabretache Hohenzollern and Paperhanger FROM German Atrocities: An Official In vestigation. By J. H. Morgan, M.A., late Home Office Commissioner with the British Expeditionary Force, 1914-1918. The Germans have broken all laws, human and divine, and not even the ancient Freemasonry of arms, whose honourable traditions are almost as old as war itself, has restrained them in their brutal ...

... It li It It L E and SOliEAK Stories from Everywhere HE appeared before the company officer, charged with using insulting language to his sergeant. Please, sir, he protested, I was only answering a question. What question? snapped the officer. Well, sir, the sergeant said: 4 What do you think I am? and I just told him. A well-known American author met an old negro -^■called Uncle Joe, who ...

... The Irish Bloodstock Sales at Ballsbridge Dublin Viscount Milton, seen here with Joe Canty, :rack Irish jockey, is building up a stud at Neivmarket. He paid 2600 guineas for a filly by he Derby winner, Mahmoud, at Ballsbridge sales °oole, Dublin At the East Surrey Farmer's Gift Sale for the Red Cross at-Reigate Mr. Gordon Touche M.P. for Reigate, auctioned a bottle of whisky at the sale, which ...

... MOSS :: 'Naval, Military R.A.F. Outfitters COVENT GARDEN Corner of King St. Bedford St., W.C.2 TEMple Bar 4477 (12 lines) *6A ivuif thvtj have in the A a vif A gentleman who was one of our most respected civilian customers appeared on our threshold, trimly clad in blue and gold, and announced that he was 44 a rough, tough, sea faring chap who'd 44 slipped ashore to buy a bridge coat and look ...

... WAY (IF IKE WAR By Foresight Historic Occasion GENERAL SMUTS's address to Members of both Houses of Parliament was his toric as much for the thoughts he projected to the world as for the occasion itself and the meeting-place. The arrangements to enable this sage Empire statesman to meet Parliament illustrate our peculiar genius for compromise. Without parting with the past, the authorities ...