... Praise the Small Farmer A Small Family Builds Up a British Friesian Herd MUCH of the limelight of farming publicity goes to the big farms, with model buildings, the most up-to-date machinery, or famous herds of cattle. But half of the land under cultivation in the British Isles is farmed by men with less than a hundred acres. Theirs is the unending daily routine of growing crops and attending ...

... A CENTURY and a half ago the woods of England were stripped of their oaks, cut to build ships to beat off the threatened Napoleonic invasion. But Englishmen knew that there would be other wars, and here and there acorns were planted and the young trees guarded till they could fend for themselves. To-day many of these oaks are being felled, and this is the story of one of them and of an East ...

... Watf rcress Farm I Gro^v een Again Comes True IN July 1939 Mr. and Mrs. Maxwell went to live a 01: Alresford House, Alresford, Hampshire, given b tin nation to Lord Rodney some 160 years ago. It is a It \'eh country of water meadows and trout streams, for her the River Aire begginnith of a great numbre o' fa: Sylver Springes which resorting to a botom make a rea brode lak communely caullid ...

... IT was in 1936, about mid-way through our busy professional golfing programme, that I decided I would give up trying to putt with one particular system and just hit the ball towards the hole and leave it at that. Ever since I began to try to score for a living, it was very clear to me that getting the ball into the hole was the part of the game that counted most, although it was equally clear ...

... Hi ,n i9c |p| The foph lip*' were jSjPi stand In 1943 Brookes are still in the forefront, their entire resources devoted to the national effort. YOUR YACHT AFTER THE WAR? When hostilities cease Brookes will again turn to building still finer yachts with greatly increased resources and capacity, new methods and ideas learnt through stress of war allied to the same craftsmanship you have always ...

... THE lambing season is now well advanced and we are able to show, in mid- January, when these pictures were taken, some line results from Mr. Clifton Brown's noted flock of Hampshire Downs at Burnham. Here, on high ground, yet well sheltered from the prevailing winds, the in- lamb ewes are cared for in a permanent lambing- pen, with adjacent folds. The ram lambs of the breed are sought after ...

... DURING their visit to Sandhurst for the Rugby match with the* R.A.C., O.C.T.U. team, the members of the Public Schools Wanderers a club formed two years ago to provide games for Services men on leave, schoolmasters, university and hospital students/and school boys were shown, by courtesy of the Commandant, phases of the O.C.T.U. training. This training, which was de scribed by the Commandant ...

... Two north-country school Rugby teams have completed their second season without a defeat. They are Stonyhurst, who have won all the nine games played with an aggregate of 225 points against 28. Their most spectacular victory ivas against Merchant Taylor's, whom they defeated by 64 points to 8, and Worksop, who have won nine games and drawn one with a total score of 234 points against 'do for ...

... ithy THE FULL MOON CLUB? Young ladies of the W.L.A. Toc H Club, Orpington, meet only when there is a moon, as their only means of transport is their cycles. Whether they cycled to meet Mr. Donald McCulldch or whether he rode to Orpington to meet them at their New Year's party is not related. MISS JEAN NICOLL, popular and famous British lawn-tennis star, after her marriage to Sub- Lieut. ...

... WOMEN are very interested in the spring fashions and the best way in which to lay out their coupons. Fortnum and Mason, Piccadilly, are showing the advance guard of suits. They are simple, admirably cut and tailored, to say nothing of the clever way in which their aspect may be altered with the aid of acces sories and colour contrasts. On the left of this page is a jumper suit in a soft fancy ...

... THE small mixed farm is the backbone of British agriculture, and lucky is the child born and bred on one of them. The fun and companionship that these country children get from the young animals more than make up for the chores they have to do and the rareness of their visits to town and cinema. Of all things necessary to happiness, we would place companionship first, both for humans and ...

... MANY species of fungus pests attack glasshouse crops, and the amateur gardener producing indoor green- stuffs expects to encounter some of them. Tomatoes especially are liable to the attack of tomato leaf mould, and the house shown in the photograph was badly infected with this pest. When a glasshouse crop is attacked, the gardener has two different pro blems to consider. First of all, he must ...