... ILLUSTRATED SPORTING AND DRAMATIC NEWS Potato Planting in Scotland TS ...

... Hedgerows are now all abloom with damson blossom in the Lyth Valley of Westmorland, while on the fells above Windermere the shepherd cares for his lambs among a host of golden daffodils. ...

... B rvmni a (z-i Times photograph) THE Princess Elizabeth, who comes of age on her eighteenth birthday, on Friday, April 21, reaches her majority in an eventful year, and possibly in a month fateful in British ■V history. Greetings will come to her from s a every part of the Empire, but none perhaps will be more welcome than those from her friends and family retainers at Sandringham. There, on ...

... WILD Pigeons are plentiful, and because it is good to take advantage of any possible change in our diet we are giving some variations in pigeon cookery, prepared for us by the Savoy Hotel. Use the breasts for your main dish, the carcase for stock and a tasty cold savoury. Called Mousse de Ramier and served ice cold it is simply the small pieces cooked in red wine or Devonshire cider, which is ...

... Hasten Slowly The Seedaset Major and Minor TWO years ago we visited an experimental nursery at Amersham to see a new method of seed-growing. We were much impressed, by the claims of the inventor, backed, as they were, by the growing plants. But though we had seen with our own eyes we had not tried with our own hands, so we took a Seedaset Minor away for trial. On our own pottmg bench we were ...

... Veterinary Help for limals in Cairo THE People's Dispensary for Sick Animals, origin- ally started in Whitechapel, has now become an inter- national organisation. It gives free advice and treat- ment for the livestock or pets of poor people, de- stroys injured, sickly or unwanted animals, and pro- vides compensation in cases of hardship. The Cairo branch is of special interest in these days, ...

... THE North-Western British Friesian Club holds five shows and sales at Crewe every year, and as the district is largely concerned with milk and cheese, dairy cattle are of special interest. Entries come from North Wales and Scotland, as well as the North Midland counties, and the auctioneers, Messrs. Manley and Spens, Crewe, found a full day 's work with 206 entries 136 cows and heifers .with ...

... In the most recent class of British frigates, at least 80 per cent, of the structure has been pre fabricated and certain deck houses have been pre- constructed and fitted out to enable them to be de livered complete to the shipyards for lifting into the vessel,' declared Mr. Alexander recently in Parliament. Without this system of pre-fabrication, in fact, the losses in torpedoed and mined ...

... TWO LAKELAND FARMS FOR THE NATION A picture of Millbeck Farm, Great Langdale, with the Langdale Pikes providing an impressive background. The Master of Trinity, Dr. G. M. Trevelyan, O.M., has given to the National Trust his two farms. Millbeck and Harry Place' in Great Langdale, Westmorland, with a total area of 289 acres. The Trust already owns the Dungeon Ghyll Hotel and three farms at the ...

... Lady Patricia Ward, the Earl of Dudley's youngest sister, has chosen a journalistic career, of which she is making a great success. She was for some time 011 the staff of a well-known fashion paper, since when her work as a newspaper reporter has taken her on many interesting and exciting wartime tours of England and Ireland. Lady Patricia was chosen to accompany the Duchess of Kent to ...

... WAY OF THE WAR By Foresight Assurance THE pursuit of the Germans into Rumania is an indication of the determination of the Russians to impose a military rout on Hitler and to secure Germany's capitulation before, or even at, Berlin. It was left to M. Molotov, the Soviet Commissar for Foreign Affairs, to tell the world that Russia was marching over foreign soil in pursuit of the enemy. This ...

... MYSELF AT THE PICTURES A Near-Masterpiece By James Agate ONE of the extraordinary things about French films is the toy-like quality of the scenery. One never quite believes in those streets, shops, roofs and skylines. Or is it that they are so miraculously photographed that they take on the quality of art? Yet these buildings, all of which bear a faint resemblance to the Noah's Ark of the ...