... PARTICULARS of the recent highly successful Show and Sale at Reading, in aid of the Red Cross Agriculture Fund, are given on another page. It is our pleasure here to call attention to the appeal, on behalf of the same great fund, issued by the Small Livestock Committee, of which the chairman is the Rt. Hon. Tom Williams, M.P., Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture. The ...

... Rugby-p'.aying R.A. officers in Malta have had a most successful season, and up to the end of February had won 9 and drawn one of their 13 games. The team is drawn from all branches of the R.A. Coast, Field and A.A., and this picture was taken just before a match with Malta War Headquarters, which the R.A. officers won by 27 points to 8. STANDING Capt. E. C. Baker, B.A. (Surrey and Old ...

... A NUMBER of growers have experimented with treating the soil with carbon bisulphide by means of a new type of soil injector designed by the Pan-Britannica Industries, of Waltham Abbey, to destroy wireworm and other soil pests. Reports from Sussex, Hampshire, the Lea Valley, Blackpool, Essex, Warwickshire and Berk shire are all excellent. One grower from a northern area reports that he reduced ...

... THE Navy's job is to plough the seas, so sailors rarely figure in the agricultural news. And, as far as we know, not even a box of mustard and cress is grown at sea to make sandwiches for the captain's afternoon tea. But, given a chance, the urge to grow things is just as strong in the Navy as it is in the other Services, witness these pictures, taken last year, at a Fleet Air Arm Station. On ...

... THE South Oxfordshire Fox hounds, determined to ex terminate the last fox from thei: country, held their last meet of the season at Turners' Court Farn. Training Colony at Wallingford. Our pictures show the join masters Mrs. Fanshawe and Mis: Christie-Miller surrounded bj the boys Mrs. Fanshawe leadini the pack, and Mr. Richard Road- night (well-known to our readers who, later, was thrown and ...

... By A. Croxton Smith DOG owners generally have now the opportunity of giving a hand to support the ameliora tive work of the Red Cross and St. John organisation, which is badly in need of every penny that can be supplied by a sympathetic public. The Kennel Club has opened the Dogs of Britain Red Cross Appeal, which is the first co-operative attempt made on behalf of dogs. It is operating in ...

... SOME thirty years ago Mr. A. Pullen Burry, a nursery man at Sompting, in Sussex, had the idea of a movable greenhouse. Not hand-lights, but a full-sized glasshouse, which, after starting one crop could be moved on to bring on others, and, if required, brought back to protect any crop at a vital stage in its development. He designed several houses, and during the past thirty years j these ...

... WITHIN a mile of St. Paul's. Cathedral and behind the Mint is Swedenborg Square, Cable Street, a quiet corner in the busy dock and warehouse area of East London. Here Mr. R. Carson runs a dairy and milk-delivery round, and at the back of the premises is a large cowshed with other dairy buildings attached and all the space required to prepare food and accommodation for twenty milking cows, ...

... FEW products of the fields and hedgerows could be so small in size as the rose-hips. Yet their vitamin content (Vitamin C) is considered by high authorities to be of very great value indeed as an agent in building strong, healthy children. The C vitamin in rose-hips is some 20 times that found in the orange. The Ministry of Food is therefore pressing for an output, or intake, of 1,500 tons of ...

... Herts W.A.E.C. Install Grain-Drying Plant ONE of the disadvantages of the combine harvester is that grain thrashed in the field is liable to contain too much moisture and will sometimes heat in store, either in heaps or in sacks. In the case of barley, the whole crop must be ripe and dry when cut, but the presence of green weed fruits is a potential source of damage. Grain must I be stored as ...

... Good Ground Work The R.A.F. as Vegetable Producers THE Royal Air Force are only too conscious of the many good acres they have been forced to take out of cultivation for their aerodromes. The total of these acres is very high, but all are contriving to do their utmost so that the loss of food to the country is minimised. Some 7000 to 8000 acres have been brought back into use again, and by ...

... --by D. H. Watson-Wood THE coursing season which commences at Altcar next Wednesday, (November 3) will again be conducted strictly on austerity lines. This season, however, there will be five important meetings instead of four. That coursing has been enabled to carry on in war time, even with so restricted a programme, is a matter for congratulation, as it may be said to have served its ...