... 1 Salads as a Main Dish J THE shortage of meat means that salads must be major instead of minor dishes this Spring and Summer. Readers of this paper at least should have plenty of greenstuff and roots for salads, and M. Marius Dutrey, of the Savoy, has very kindly produced for us some new ways of making salads into meals. All the ingredients are available, though some call for the expendi ture ...

... THE question of compulsory pasteurisa tion has, for the second time, become a matter of national interest. In 1938 it was suggested that all milk should be so treated, but the matter was allowed to drop. Now the subject has again come under review, but the large dairy factories have for a long time pasteurised their milk. Elaborate installations have been designed for efficient working, every ...

... Another Temperamental Guineas' Favourite Restrictions on Two-Year-Olds NEWMARKET'S pre-Guineas tests were satisfactorily carried out at the First Spring Meeting on the 4th and 5th. As a result, the Aga Khan's colt, Nasrullah, has hardened in price as favourite for the 2,000 and Lord Rosebery's Ribbon has re placed the sprinter, Lady Sybil, in favouritism, for the sister event. Those are the ...

... THE 22nd annual general meeting of the National Institute of Agricultural Botany was held at the headquarters at Cambridge on July 15th, and the popularity of the event was shown by the large attendance of farmers, members of the seed trade and others. The event meant a busy day for the staff committee meetings all the morning with such famous plant- breeding experts as Sir Rowland Biffen, F.R ...

... TWO great wars in a quarter of a century have made heavy inroads upon the forests and woodlands of our country. Timber imports are drastically reduced in wartime, but the need for timber remains as great as ever. hi early 500,000 acres 01 timDer were ielled in the last war, and very little of this was replanted. Planning for the future must include reafforestation, and if supplies of home ...

... TWflj Tyi A FAST train from Victoria will reach Coulsdon in 36 minutes, even in wartime. The adjacent Chipstead Valley is largely residential hardly a place to go to for hay making pictures. Yet the photographer has been able to obtain pictures which might have been taken in the heart of the country. The scene is the L.C.C.'s Chipstead Valley Farm, on which a team of Land Girls have been busy ...

... THE queen isn't laying enough eggs, said the expert. You should re queen. It is quite simple. You order a new sovereign and introduce her to the hive after killing off the old queen. Now, though for the benefit of visitors I often lift off the roof of the hive and turn up a corner of the quilt to expose the busy workers, I am not a person whom they say talks to his bees. The thought, then, ...

... Henley ONLY four schools were able to accept Eton's invitation for a race at Henley. Radley rowed their boat the 50 miles down to Henley, spending one night at Reading. Eton rowed the 26 miles up-stream, and two other Eton boats were also rowed up from Eton for the use of Shrewsbury and Winchester. The course was about a mile up-stream. 1 zr 7 r 7 s 1 i1 1 Mini FIIM ETON: (Left to right R. D. ...

... MOST golfers, or perhaps I should say, most really keen golfers, must have dreamed sometimes of a golf course of their very own where they could invite their friends down to play and enjoy their golf going round at their own speed, no starting list and no cries of Fore! from behind if they were taking their time or trying putts over again, to chase them on their way. I must confess I have ...

... C:M ASKING SUNDAY: The ceremony of blessing the crops on Rogation Asking Sunday once played a regular part in English country life. It had been dying out since the days of the industrial revolution even in the hands of the country clergy. The spiritual revival which is a notable feature of the war has given a new meaning to the old words and in many parishes the ancient custom is being ...

... ancf 2-^crii/n. THERE has come to this office a number of pictures of last week's Gift Sale at Sevenoaks, organised in aid of the Red Cross Agriculture Fund. By the same post arrived a picture of a Red Cross ship leaving a British port and bearing its precious cargo of comforts for Prisoners of War, of whom 4,000 came from the fair land of Kent. Alt honour goes to tne people wno slave, weeKs ...

... Aberdeen -Angus Show at Banbury A GREAT fillip was given to English breeders at the 41st Annual Spring Show and Sale of the English Association at Banbury, when breeders in search of herd sires looked to their co-breeders south of the Border to fill the gaps. An exceptionally large entry was catalogued, that of both females and bulls being considerably in excess of the entry of a year previous ...