... j ly 9, 1943 TripleX the safety glass 1 fortnightly (j^ ILLUSTRATED SPORTINC AND DRAMATIC NEWS SPOKTiCOUHTKY ...

... Half a million helpers have started on the toughest harvest job in our history, something like 100,000,000 tons of crops to be gathered in. The Duke of Norfolk, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture, has just been on a week's tour of some of the holiday harvest camps provided for these voluntary workers. He went by train and cycle, paying his daily four shillings for supper, ...

... MR. FRANK PARKINSON, of the Manor Farm Estate, West Tisted, Hants., recently had the pleasure of enter taining the Minister of Agriculture and his wife, whose special object was to inspect the fine herd of attested pedigree Ayrshirfes this is now one of the show herds of the county. Mr. Parkinson, despite his immense business interests^in wartime devoted entirely to Government work supervises ...

... Leicester City-- Farmers THE City Corporation Farms of Leicester have been in existence for fifty years. Alderman W. K. Billings, who is chairman of the Farms Com mittee, explains that the primary duty of his committee, which has 2500 acres under its care, is to deal with the sewage of the city and utilise the land, both for purifying the effluent and to grow valuable crops and allow it to ...

... THE Ministry of Agriculture needs no boosting, nor do the humble people need a reminder of their responsibilities to wards the food-production effort. The status of agriculture was stressed by the Prime Minister in his Guildhall speech on June 30th I submit that in the four most im portant spheres of finance, labour, agriculture and food an efficient, vigorous and successful administration has ...

... THE Shire Horse, so highly esteemed in the Midlands, is gradually undergoing a modification in type as a result of the insistent demand for clean-legged horses, and the consequent efforts of breeders to reduce hair to finer and silkier proportions. Mr. Morris Belcher, of Tibberton Manor, is too well known to Shire breeders to need introduction here. He has at present some twenty-eight horses ...

... \T O racehorse owner -L> ever deserved suc cess more than Miss Dorothy Paget, who achieved her ambition when Straight Deal, whom she bred herself, won the New Derby at New market. Miss Paget, who won the Grand National with Golden Miller in 1934, is the only woman to have brought off the big double. Lady James Douglas won the war time Derby of 1918 with Gainsborough; Mrs. Miller won the Epsom ...

... THE Agricultural Department at the University of Leeds has been engaged for four years in an extensive investigation into the methods for the eradication of bracken and its replacement by a good grazing turf. Many different processes have been tried, as bracken is one of the most serious weed pests in the country, especially on light soils, and it spreads very rapidly. Unlike most other ferns ...

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... FAMILY PARTY AT BARNWELL MANOR T.R.H. THE DUKE AND DUCHESS OF GLOUCESTER AND PRINCE WILLIAM. H.R.H. the DUCHESS OF GLOUCESTER with her son, PRINCE WILLIAM, who is looking very mischievous. The LITTLE PRINCE takes a hand in combing Zalie. Barnwell Manor, Peterborough, the country house of the Duke and Duchess, is a beautiful old Tudor house with .mullioned windows. PRINCE WILLIAM finds a secure ...

... OW the R.A.F. MAINTAINS rS SUPREMACY in AIR BATTLE !ie Central Gunnery School, in Flying Training Command, is performing a valuable function in the improvement :unnery in all its aspects in all operational commands, uses here are taken by selected gunners from operational and by fighter pilots. The school exists primarily to the highest possible standard for gunnery in the R.A.F. to be the ...

... Cince the early days of the war, Britain's Mosquito Fleet the M.T.B.s and M.G.B.s, based mainly on the East and South Coasts has grown enormously. A few days ago the Prime Minister sent a message to all our Light Coastal Forces at home and abroad, in which he said I have noted with admiration the work in the North Sea, in the Channel and, more recently, in the Mediterranean. Both in offence ...