... I 1 THERE are few large farms in Derbyshire, but many family-sized properties and same 3400 part-time holdings. Excluding holdings under 20 acres, there are 5012 farms in the county, and of these 3502 are less than 100 acres. In the county of stone walls the smallholder and the small farmer are playing a fine part in British agriculture's miraculous recovery. The war has intensified rather ...

... Having in the Jordan Valley A FORTNIGHT ago we published pictures from the cattle market at Aleppo, where the Royal Army Veterinary Corps are teaching many of the Arabs something about the care of animals. These pictures are from Palestine, in the Jordan Valley, where, in one of the hottest and driest spots in the world, the British Army has made a forage farm. War, at least when British ...

... feflhe Derby SILVER RING CROWD watching the Coventry Stakes, icon by Miss Paget' s colt, Orestes. The Ditch on the far side of the coarse was lined with spectators who chose the open side of the Ilcath. GETTING THEIR MONEY READY, the long stream of spectators nearly all of whom had walked or cycled to the course, including a strong contingent of Servicemen from U.S.A., Australia and elsewhere. ...

... MOSS BROS? MOSS BROS L- JQDHPURS Breeches Sc complete Riding Outfits Horse lovers still manage to get their riding, and so keep fit -fi to do their bit. They may be glad to know that we still supply most items of Riding Kit Riding Boots and also Saddlery. For Officers in the Ser vices we have a full range of fittings in ready-for- wear Service breeches and Field Boots. Naval, Military, R.A.F. ...

... FIRST PICTURES FROM THE ISLAND OF PANTELLARIA The First Enemy Position Ever to Surrender as the Result of Air Power Alone These vivid pictures show the terrific pounding to which the island in the Sicilian Narrows was subjected by the Allied Air Forces, the landing of the first British aircraft on the battered aerodrome and the scenes of devastation which greeted our troops as they landed to ...

... And what they achieved during the Tunisian campaign. Described by Dougal Gordon and The cherry berets of our airborne divisions fought their first sustained campaign in North Africa. Like all campaigns it had its surprises and taught its lessons-- even to the fundamental one that a parachutist landing on a high plateau in the desert hits the ground much harder than he does in England. Our ...

... Below Spezia is the great naval base of Northern Italy it has a grim circle of forts round it, constructed in 1888, on the high hills above. It has one of the largest and safest natural harbours in the whole of the Mediterranean, and it has been the chief naval harbour in Italy since 1861. Recently it was attacked by our own home-based Lancasters and then it was subjected to a fierce assault ...

... RECRUIT TRAINING IN NORTHERN NIGERIA Preliminary rifle sighting instruction on an open range for an Infantry Training Company. All West African recruits are taught to become expert shots with the Service rifle standard throughout the British Army to-day. The recruits are all volunteers and come mostly from farms they are of fine physique and average over 6 ft. in height. As most of them have ...

... THE increased area of cereals grown under war conditions to produce grain, and so reduce the amount of food which must be imported, has caused an accumulation of stray in this country. Straw cannot be applied to the soil without treatment of some kind, and the supply of yard-fed fattening cattle is not sufficiently large to make it all into farmyard manure. The number of straw-stacks dotted ...

... HIGH prices were obtained at the English Guernsey Cattle Society's summer sale of Tuberculin and agglutination tested cattle on June 16 at Reading. Bidding was especially brisk for the animals presented to the society for disposal on behalf of the Red Cross Agriculture Fund. Purchasers of stock dedicated to this popular fund are usually generous bidders, but the animals sold were of high class ...

... Il I and How They will be Carried Out It is evident that amphibious operations of a peculiar complexity and hazard on a large scale are approaching Mr. Winston Churchill in the House of Commons, June 8, 1943 A Special Section dealing with the Peculiar Complexity of an Invasion Armada, and a Survey of the Problems involved WHEN Mr. Churchill spoke of amphibious operations of peculiar ...

... Independent of the I Milkman THE nannv-goat is coming into her own these days a lady of leisure instead of a beast of burden at the seaside. A couple of quarts of fresh milk a day independent of what the milkman cares to leave is a real blessing to many families, so no wonder that a goat in milk fetches to-day as many pounds as she would have been sold for shillings before the war. Twenty ...