... THE little dress on the extreme left is of Viyella, showing a jumper I effect. Checked Viyella makes the skirt, which is cut on the cross, while plain Viyella has been used for the jumper top, with touches of the check on the pockets. The adaptable plastron may be arranged in a variety of ways or left off altogether. The picture at the right at the top shows another way of wearing the plas ...

... Watching Points Characteristics of the Dairy Shorthorn By a Well-known Judge THE past two or three years have seen buyers investing in dairy cattle who formerly had little knowledge of the various breeds or of their characteristics, and who were incapable of judging individual animals as such. To those endeavouring to found new herds, or to improve existing stock, it has become more than ever ...

... the Night raids Daylight raids Intruder raids into the dawn across the bars of sunset, through rain and storm. BUT whatever the weather cloudy or clear there is always always a for they go to avenge the innocent, to break the tyrant, to release a continent from slavery to save mankind. No enterprise more glorious in the story of the world. Once they were few, now they are many they must be ...

... IN these days we all, that is except those who actually run the war, exist on newspaper and radio reports, supple mented now and then by a bit of inside information told us when we meet a person in the know who unwisely talks a little. This inside information soon gets exaggerated and embellished in the telling to become distorted more than somewhat, as Damon Runyon would say. These are the ...

... EVERY woman likes to own a fur coat, as there are so many- occasions when it may be appro priately worn. When the days are bright and there is a suggestion of frost in the air, it may be draped over the shoulders, the sleeves falling at the sides, or fastened down the front. The two coats pictured have been created by Molho, 5, Duke Street, Manchester Square. The one on the left is of Canadian ...

... \NUARY 22, 1 943 TripIeX the safety glass fortnightly The Illustrated t POliTI NG 1 and DRAMATIC News SPORT COUNTRY ...

... To Keep the Wheels Turning Bringing the Village Blacksmith Up to Date A GOOD many farmers are beginning to think that next year's harvest will depend not so much upon themselves or their workers, but on whether someone will be able to keep the wheels turning. Enquiries during our travels in various parts of the country convince us that these farmers are right in their forebodings. The all ...

... SOME nine years before the war we found this old vicarage house and its four acres. The house was becoming derelict and the garden overgrown and non-produc- tive. Many friends advised us not to buy-- it was too far from the City, the journey to London being some 48 miles-- the work involved to pull the property round was too much. It would be a millstone round our necks, and so on. We quickly ...

... AN important part of the routine work on a large chicken farm is to deter- mine the sex of day-old birds so that the cockerels and pullets may be separated from each other to suit the requirements of buyers. In the case of egg- laymg breeds pullets are needed for egg production and male birds are not required. Special crosses have been obtained where the sex factor is linked with colour of the ...

... 1742--1943 WHITBREAD Co. Ltd. I Brewers of ale and stout for two centuries o We are handing on an extraordinarily difficult world to the next generation, and we owe it to the children to think of their welfare, and certainly the homeless children. It is for such children we plead Gifts however small gratefully received. CHURCH OF ENGLAND WAIFS STRAYS SOCIETY JOEL STREET, PINNER, MIDDX. ...

... WOMEN'S splendid war work in factories has been marred by distressing acci dents through their hair becoming entangled in machinery. The vast majority of these injuries could be avoided by the wearing of a suitable head-covering, and to discover this, Rootes Securities, Ltd., who have more than ten busy factories in their group, staged amongst their 40,000 workers, an interesting contest in ...

... 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 ...