... cmcfT^own OUR recent guest, Mrs. Eleanor Roose velt, has had some very kind things to say about the work of the Women's Land Army. Women of Britain's Land Army, she says, do anything that needs to be done on the farm. And so on. More interesting still was her observation that almost unanimously they told me they hoped they would always be able to go on with the work, presumably after the ...

... THE remarkable utility of the Fordson tractor under vari ous conditions is generally well known. It performs a great number of operations, hauling all types of implements on the farms, or trailers on the road, and as a stationary power-plant does a variety of jobs, such as wood-sawing, threshing, grind ing-mill operation, etc. Its use under forestry con ditions is not so well known, but since ...

... Forestry in War and Peace ParGi By W. L. Taylor One of H. M. Forestry Commissioners Mr. Taylor s first article appeared in The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News of November 27th. The pictures illustrating it and the present article were taken in the New Forest area in late October, when the Forest was^visited by representatives of the Allied Governments THE job of planting 1,770,000 ...

... THE recent inter-Services Rugby match, Army v. R.A.F., drew the largest crowd of the season to Richmond, where the Army, playing twelve Internationals, beat the R.A.F., with ten Internationals, by 18 points to nil. But the score by no means reflects the run of the game. After holding the Army's lead to a penalty goal for the first twenty minutes, during which time their forwards, with Corporal ...

... ALFA-LAVAL COMPANY LIMITED ALFA-LAVAL COMPANY LIMITED, S tea ut tg n 11 b° Swill A Save tgtmr Stock Don't give disease to your pigs. Cook all your pig food. All waste food can be sterilised by steam cooking in the Alfa Cooker, which brings out the properties of the food. The extra advantage of the Alfa Cooker is that it m enables you to use Coal, THE MACHINE YOU WILL EVENTUALLY BUY Jm All pans ...

... Fashions of The Future For the Cold Weather TROUSERS AND PULLOVER LILLYWHXTES, Piccadilly, are very successful in creating practical fashions for those who are helping to win the war, but do not wear uniform. To this firm must be given the credit of the outfit on the right. It consists of striped flannel trousers, a pullover and sleeveless waistcoat it may be varied to suit the needs of the ...

... Other Days-- Other Ways But Certainly Not Sorry for Ourselves! Pitch and Toss. Merlon. Maidstone. Precious Burden. Fast. Loose. Sixty feet of Ccdarwood and the same of Pine. Grand National Dinner. 1939 Viands. 1942 Vegetables. Round the Brazier. National Hunt. National IPorA. ...

... At Christmas play, and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year SO wrote Thomas Tusser in his Farmer's Daily Diet 400 years ago. The fourth Christmas of the war has changed our material con ditions, but it has not changed our Christmas spirit. How many of these land-girls could have dreamed a few years ago of being separated from their friends and families and particularly of being ...

... MOMENTS of an historic year flash by on memory's screen. The Royal victories with Big Game and Sun Chariot; the visit of the King and Queen to Newmarket during Derby week; the look in Gordon Richards' eye when he rode Sun Chariot on to the course on One Thousand day; a late winter's afternoon in the Sales Paddocks at Newmarket when Matthew Peacock bid 17,000 guineas for Olein: the late Sir ...

... ecLlaiLi to Port WHEN Sandy told Jock he was going to Australia and would be away for six months, his friend said, Look up my old pal in Sydney, will you? His name is Crummack. You'll remember it easy-- it rhymes with stomach. Six months later Sandy informed Jock he could not find his friend Kelly anywhere. Captain I hope the next time I see you, you'll be a second-lieu- tenant. Private ...

... AT Allington Park, Maidstone, the Kent Womer s Land Army, by competitions and displays, go e some idea of the magnitude and variety of t ie 1 national work on which it is engaged, nvery puasc modern farming was covered and the big programme ot events was made possible by the kindness of Mr. W. Edmonds and Mr. H. T. Edmonds, who placed th i. entire farm and farm buildings at the disposal ot i ...

... King Henry IV, Part 2 (Westminster) MR. ROBERT ATKINS is doing a really grand job with his Shake spearean revivals at the Westminster, and it is good to see them so well supported, particularly by the Forces (including the Americans) who are crowding the comfort able Westminster Theatre. He has followed the First Part of King Henry IV by the Second a fine play seen all too rarely. It is ...