... By Marjory Hemphill Photographs are reproduced by the courtesy of the Kenya Information Office Those entitled Wheat Production and The Fields were kindly supplied by the Kenya Settlement and Publicity Office, London. IF a stranger were dropped here by para chute, I often wonder how many guesses he would require to calculate where he was, before he hit upon Africa, if he had no other clue bar ...

... THE village saddler had fallen on evil times the dusty hand-made goods hanging in his shop were his memorial to an age which had believed in quality. To-day, the revival of agriculture, the return of the pony and trap, and a demand for goods that will last have made the saddler busier than he has been for a generation. Everywhere there is more work than saddlers, for his is not a trade to be ...

... jSj LORD ROSEBERY won the fifth war time Derby with his home bred colt Ocean Swell, bred from his pre-war Derby winner Blue Peter, and Jiffy, by Hurry On. The winner, ridden in an exciting finish by the north country jockey William Nevett, beat the Aga Khan's Tehran (E. Smith) by a neck Mr. Hutchin son's Happy Landing (R. Jones), a trifle unlucky in running, was a short head away third. The ...

... FINLAND, now one of the German satellite nations, is in the limelight again. It is presumably fated to come out of the war as yet another of the countries devastated as a result of its military, political and geographical situation. Yet it is only six years ago that the British Dairy Farmers' Association organised a visit to the country; members of the conference returned full of admiration ...

... AMONG the old English corn-mills which still take their motive power from the air is the one at Outwood, near Godstone. It is claimed for the mill that it is the oldest working windmill in the country, and although two of its sails had to be renewed some years ago, the grinding machinery is as sound as it was when it was installed in 1665. During the Great ^Fire of London in 1666 villagers ...

... THE beekeeper who has a spare hive and wishes to increase his stocks without the risk of a natural swarm can induce an artificial swarm. There are two methods of doing this, which differ slightly. The choice depends on whether or not queen cells have been formed. The new hive must be prepared with ten empty combs-- drawn out for pre ference. Inject a little smoke at the entrance of the hive to ...

... UNE 23, 1944 TripleX'-- the safety glass fortnightly ILLUSTRATED SPORTING AND DRAMATIC NEWS SPOOTtCOUNTRtiaR ...

... /\RGANISED by the British Sugar Corporation and the Carse of Gowrie Junior Agriculturist Club, a beet singling competition held at Millhills, Inchture, attracted more than sixty competitors. Captain Barty, of the Sugar Cor poration's Cupar factory, was in charge. [Carse of Gowrie is the fertile alluvial tract which extends along the north bank of the Tay from Kinnoull Hill, Perthshire, to the ...

... ONE very cold early morning Mr. Bertram de N. Cruger, representative in England of the British War Relief Society of America, saw members of the Women's Land Army working in the fields. He shivered in sym pathy and then warmed in admira tion. So when last year he was auviacu ui liic u,uuu-t_n_mcii uuugci of the two foremost Labour Groups of America, the American Federa tion of Labour and the ...

... Mid-Summer Routine Grown in a Reader's Garden-- What is It? By Our Horticultural Correspondent THE combined effects of late frosts and a drought of quite unusual severity have upset gardening programmes in many parts of the country. The work of trans planting seedlings and sowing winter veget ables, referred to in our last issue, is, generally speaking, behind schedule and now that the drought ...

... PICTURES on the preceding page illustrate a stock-judging con test in Berkshire. Here are further pictures showing the activities of Young Farmers' Clubs in three more counties. The photographs at the top were taken in Yorkshire, where in terest in Friesian cattle is as strong as ever. The middle set was taken at Dauntsey's School, West Lavington, near Devizes, where the Rally was opened by ...

... BY capturing the Taman Peninsula in the first part of October, the Red Army has liberated from the German invaders one of the richest and most productive regions of the Soviet Union the Kuban. It is no wonder that the Russian people call it their gem. The bountiful Kuban soil, cultivated by the labour- loving Cossacks, gave the country about 100,000,000 poods (over 1,600,000 tons) of grain ...