... By Our Flying Correspondent A GREAT deal of thought is being devoted to planning the future, and especially the future of aviation. But on one subject thought seems to be confused, and that is the fate of the rapidly multiplying aerodromes which are now scattered all over this country. It is a common cause or compramt tnai these aerodromes are often established on first-class agricultural ...

... WHEN beef is mentioned, the word is usually associated with the Argentine, the United States or Australia, but these photographs remind us that there are large cattle-ranches in Canada. On the grass of the flat districts, enormous herds of cross-bred and pedigree cattle are main tained. The Hereford breed is one of the most popular, from its large size and sturdy character. For many years, ...

... IT is good news that the Minister of Agriculture is to open discussions with representatives of farm workers, farmers and landowners about rural housing. The matter should have been tackled long ago. 1 ne war years nave seen a spectacular im provement in almost everything to do with British agriculture except unbelievably the- housing of the workers on which the future must turn. Unless good ...

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... aricf THE figures on the production of wheat, hogs and so on that Professor Scott- Watson was able to give on his return from U.S.A. were so great that it is impossible to relate them to anything which the ordinary person can visualise. This is one of the difficulties of our understanding the vast scale of American expenditure on production. The usual trick is to talk about a line drawn three ...

... 1 NUARY 8, 1943 TripleX the safety glass fortnightly The Illustrated and DRAM AT I C N e ws 4 Sport and COUNTRY ...

... Some readers, and certainly many old friends of this journal, will learn with regret of the death, at the great age of 94, of George John Maddick, a former managing director of Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News and of the Illustrated London News and Sketch, Ltd. He was, however, much more than that. He played a leading part in the direction and management for very nearly sixty years he ...

... Capital Flows Back to the Land j Mr. Philip Hills Farms I in Berkshire I I I ijP DERELICT land for ploughing consists of heather, gorse and rough grass. It is to be sown for spring wheat. OATS on the Manor Farm have yielded 15 cwt. to the acre. There have also been excellent yields of potatoes NOW being taken from the clamps, sorted and bagged. GIANT CABBAGES have been grown successfully for ...

... IN the sandy south-west of the U.S.A., the Government is waging war against unknown and microscopic rod-shaped bacteria that have begun to devastate the treasured and unique cactus forest in Arizona. For years plant pathologists had known that Carnegiea gigantea, the giant saguaro, intermittently fell ill and died. But in 1940 the disease acquired new malignancy and slew giants by the score. ...

... By Our Flying Correspondent ALL the pundits think first of aviation as being destructive. Almost daily we hear a moan from somebody about the misuse of this latest development of applied science. Hardly ever do we hear much said about the uses of aircraft for saving life rather than destroying it; yet those uses are numerous and are increasing in numbers and scope. W e have seen during the war ...

... the M ALUS-CHALMERS MODEL VjB c ^T'TlVlr p ON STEEL WHEELS IT gives rear wheel centres from 53 to 74 in steps of 3, making it especially suitable for all Row-crop cultivations. With toolbar frame beneath the tractor and fitted with ridging bodies, it is capable of drawing out and splitting potato rows and the same toolbar frame can be fitted with grubbing tines or hoe blades. You will enjoy ...

... EVANS SONS LESCHER WEBB LTD. EVANS SONS LESCHER WEBB LTD. EVANS VETERINARY PRODUCTS EVANS VETERINARY PRODUCTS co m T I o Inoculate your lambs with EVANS SERUM 1 co O and save war-time flocks for the nation m B o z Q on 0 These are no times to take chances every lamb is a national asset which must be safeguarded. Remem- q >_ ber that once lambs have become infected with lamb tg dysentery no ...