... THE centenary of the Rothamsted Station the premier agricultural research institute occurs, appropriately enough, at a time when the debt owed by farming practice to science is realised. More than a hundred years ago, Lawes started a series of experiments on various problems of manures and plant nutrition, and was, later on, joined in 1843 by a brilliant chemist, J. H. Gilbert. The partnership ...

... An Important Herd in the Making Mr. Philip Hill as a Dairy Farmer ONE of the best guarantees of the future of farming in this country-- if indeed any more be needed-- is the way in which so many big men of business have bought land since the war, and have applied business methods to its cul- tivation. Capital has been applied generously towards the purchase of the latest machinery, fertilisers ...

... on. Mieuxce and the Younger French Sires THE notable successes in the past season of the stock of Nearco and, more especially, of Mieuxce', have called attention to the importance attached by British breeders to imported blood from the Continent. We have reason for being very grateful to Mr. Martin Benson and Sir Victor Sassoon for their enterprise in having secured these two stallions for the ...

... AS golfers know, it is a bit of a gamble fixing a friendly golf match in Decem- ber in our climate, and when the cheery captain of the City of Newcastle Golf Club suggested a Red Cross match to me, I think he knew it would be in the lap of the gods, for the all-important weather angle could not be ignored. It was worth a try, anyway, and, in any case, it meant that golfers of the club and ...

... Behind the 1,000 Plane Raids IB o a' Hiftf tvurv l*lti te iiftt. Urt/ttnisvtl tun! Accomplishvti By D. K. Findlav THE take-off is at eight o'clock. The soft green of the English countryside is fading into grey. The sky is clear except for a bright band of pink clouds in the west. The aircraft are marshalled, stretched in a long line on the perimeter, fuelled and bombed and readv to go. The ...

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... A WAR NEWSLETTER -No. 177 i. New Oxford Street, W.C.i. The Nelson Touch.-- The epic story of the latest Arctic convoy to Russia which is coupled with the names of Sherbrooke, and of the Onslow and the Achates, may rank in history in that unbroken chain of epics of the sea which from Tudor times to the present day adorn and point the moral of British sea power. It is early days yet to speak of ...

... The March of General Leclerc's Fighting French Force from Chad up to the Tripolitanian Fighting Zone. .Described by FERDINAND TUOHY GENERAL LECLERC'S march up from Chad to menace the fortified zone of Tripoli, some 1,500 miles north of his Fort Larny starting-point, would have furnished, in any but this monster con flict, a daily front-page story of high war adventure. One can visualise the ...

... HOW H.M.S. SCYLLA (5,450-TON CRUISER OF THE DIDO CUSS) CAUGHT AND SANK A LARGE GERMAN BLOCKADE RUNNER IN THE ATLANTIC -Drawing by Montague Dawson Royal Navy in five weeks. A Sunderland of an Australian Squadron of Coastal Command shadowed the enemy vessel and then flew on a parallel course, dr give the cruiser the exact position of the enemy. Night was coming on, so that it was essential to ...

... THE sequel to Bomber Command and The Battle of Britain has just been published; and it is undoubtedly already a best seller. Prepared by the Ministry of Information for the Air Ministry, it, is a magnificently produced volume of 144 pages at the price of 28. The I took con tains 140 photographs, many of which have not before been published, ami some of the more striking of these arc ...

... r'ROM THESE WARS. iViemories and Thoughts of the Years Between --A Fortnightly Causerie By J. G. THE Parish of Auburn Parva.-- It is always difficult to write with restraint and impartiality on matters of religion and, even if one succeed to one's own satisfaction, the result may wound or irritate readers. Auburn Magna is a argish, widespread parish in Wessex, and for many years, under ...

... COLONEL DENEYS REITZ IN LONDON as the new High Commissioner for South Africa. As Mr. Sidney Watcrson has relinquished this post to take up his new Ministerial appointment. Colonel Reitz has flown to Britain to succeed him. He lost no time in getting down to work at South Africa House in Trafalgar Square, where this picture was taken a few days ago. Colonel Reltz arrived here by aeroplane so ...