... SOME thirty years ago Mr. A. Pullen Burry, a nursery man at Sompting, in Sussex, had the idea of a movable greenhouse. Not hand-lights, but a full-sized glasshouse, which, after starting one crop could be moved on to bring on others, and, if required, brought back to protect any crop at a vital stage in its development. He designed several houses, and during the past thirty years j these ...

... WITHIN a mile of St. Paul's. Cathedral and behind the Mint is Swedenborg Square, Cable Street, a quiet corner in the busy dock and warehouse area of East London. Here Mr. R. Carson runs a dairy and milk-delivery round, and at the back of the premises is a large cowshed with other dairy buildings attached and all the space required to prepare food and accommodation for twenty milking cows, ...

... FEW products of the fields and hedgerows could be so small in size as the rose-hips. Yet their vitamin content (Vitamin C) is considered by high authorities to be of very great value indeed as an agent in building strong, healthy children. The C vitamin in rose-hips is some 20 times that found in the orange. The Ministry of Food is therefore pressing for an output, or intake, of 1,500 tons of ...

... Herts W.A.E.C. Install Grain-Drying Plant ONE of the disadvantages of the combine harvester is that grain thrashed in the field is liable to contain too much moisture and will sometimes heat in store, either in heaps or in sacks. In the case of barley, the whole crop must be ripe and dry when cut, but the presence of green weed fruits is a potential source of damage. Grain must I be stored as ...

... Good Ground Work The R.A.F. as Vegetable Producers THE Royal Air Force are only too conscious of the many good acres they have been forced to take out of cultivation for their aerodromes. The total of these acres is very high, but all are contriving to do their utmost so that the loss of food to the country is minimised. Some 7000 to 8000 acres have been brought back into use again, and by ...

... --by D. H. Watson-Wood THE coursing season which commences at Altcar next Wednesday, (November 3) will again be conducted strictly on austerity lines. This season, however, there will be five important meetings instead of four. That coursing has been enabled to carry on in war time, even with so restricted a programme, is a matter for congratulation, as it may be said to have served its ...

... Mostly About Rugby Football by John Radnor Return of Veterans to the Fray THERE is a growing man-power problem in Sport. The reason? Well, as the tradesman with a half-empty shop still is apt to remark to an over-optimistic customer, There is a war on. What is more, the war is in its fifth year, or, if one prefers to put it in a more daring way, in its fifth football season. Study the ...

... T7 INDON Great Fair is one of the best-known centres for sheep sales in Sussex. Southdowns are the main interest, but several other breeds are seen in the pens, as well as many cross-bred lambs. The Down sheep predominate, but Suffolks, Border Leicesters and Cheviots obtain good prices at the sale. This year there was a large attendance of buyers at the wartime venue West Grinstead and good ...

... SINCE most of New Zealand's leading players are over here on one job or another in the Services, New Zealand Rugby has moved to this country and the famous North Island v. South Island trial was played at Merton Park. London. It was a rather one-sided test, for North Island won by 31 points to 3. After the match Flying Officer E. Grant, the Royal New Zealand Air Force captain, was chosen to ...

... THE problem of how to lift and harvest the sugar-beet crop with only a minimum of labour available is very much to the forefront this autumn. As the season extends over several weeks, all possible variations of weather conditions can be encountered. The soils may be too hard and dry for a beet lifter to work properly, and, after heavy rains, the beet must be drawn from wet, muddy fields under ...

... By Marjory Hemphill pYRETHRUM insecticides, obtained from a daisy-like plant, are imported as the dried flower-heads. The chief sources of supply are Japan, Jugoslavia, Kenya and Brazil. Pyrethrum powder has, for very many years, been used in the East as a flea deterrent and was introduced into this country for the same purpose about a hundred years ago. Recent research has shown that the ...

... IT is one of the tragedies of publicity campaigns that they become so boring. A stage is apt to occur when the fleeting catchword, the oft-reiterated slogan, the flaming poster, mean simply nothing. There is, however, one campaign in which the subject campaigned against is himself the supreme publicity agent. The rat adver tises himself everywhere and on every possible occasion. There is no ...