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... WORK in the English fields and villages is publicised daily on the screen, the radio and the Press. But there is an army of humble workers, in almost every country village, who, in Women's Institutes, W.V.S. and other organisations, are making sure that the produce shall be preserved and dis tributed to those who need it most. They are not without their rewards. Her Majesty the Queen has ...

... ^/^.ahieJL (WL Classical Triumphs for the Country Stables A VERY well-known member of the Jockey Club .said to me in the Paddock on Derby Day that he knew what would win. Apparently he had thought of a number, trebled it and divided it by something or other; in other words, he was like nearly everybody else; trying to pick the winner with a pin. The openness of the race was subsequently ...

... 8 y Our Horticultural Correspondent IN most parts of the country the prospects for the fruit crops appear to be good. This means that a large number of trees will be bringing heavy yields to maturity. Thus to safeguard the trees' future welfare the fruit grower will do well, during the next month or so, to devote as mush time as possible to the various routine measures which are designed to ...

... HPHE North of England and many areas in the Scottish agricultural J- counties have, since the beginning of the war, made a feature of farming competitions, designed at once to be instructive and recreative, with a special appeal to youth. It will be observed that, in our illustra tions of the beet-singling competitions in Fifeshire, a wise and practical Scots Committee has enabled at least one ...

... THE average farmer, anxious to check his soil for pests and other causes of infertility, is still sceptical of the new fangled devices by which his soil may be tested for deficiencies, excesses or pests. He thinks of cold and soulless laboratories in which obscure research workers carry out their experiments in august (and probably expensive) isolation. Sussex has disposed of this idea by the ...

... On February 26, at Sidi Nisr, in Northern Tunisia, the 155th Field Battery, R.A., fought one of the finest battles in the long, glorious history of the Royal Regiment. At a cost of virtually complete extinction, the battery did the work entrusted to it. Sidi Nisr lies in the hills 12 miles east of Hunts' Gap, near Beja. It was held by the 155th Battery and the Hampshires, another battalion of ...

... AMPHIBIOUS OPERATIONS How the Army is being trained for its next important role, as recently demonstrated by Combined Operations Command U.S. RANGERS, UNDER TRAINING WITH BRITISH COMMANDO TROOPS, approach a hostile shore where enemy charges are being ex ploded. During exercises under combat conditions live ammunition and mortar bombs are used to create realistic effects AN ASSAULT LANDING ...

... UNDOUBTEDLY at the top of the tree in the fighter-day bomber class-- and likely to stay there for some time-- is the D.H. Mosquito. A whole host of features other than the merely technical ones combine to make the Mosquito a machine of unrivalled interest. in uie nrsr place, it was rne private venture of a private firm, sandwiched in by its makers almost as a spare-time job in the intervals of ...