... By E. C. Large IN Devon and Cornwall, as in other counties where rela tively few potatoes were grown before the war, the total potato acreage is now very con siderable, but it is distributed over tens of thousands of farms, each with a few acres apiece. With high summer rainfall and humidity, blight usually attacks the haulms in July or August, sometimes in June, and the con sequent losses are ...

... H.R.H. THE DUCHESS OF KENT was present with her daughter, the Princess Alexandra, at the Ascot Horse Show and Gymkhana held on the race-course in aid of the Salute the Soldier Campaign Fund. There were nine classes and a parade arranged by the Berkshire Branch of the Driving Club. Lieut.-Colonel Sir Archibald Weigall, Bart., K.C.M.G., acted as chairman of the Committee, and both he and Mr. W. ...

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... BALSA a tree from the sub-tropical forests of America has played not a small part in the invasion of France. Fuselages of the Mosquito bombers are made from it it gave buoyancy to the lifebelts worn by the troops, and Balsa rafts and floats saved many when their landing crafts hit the submerged obstacles. Balsa played its part in the insulation for the refrigeration ships and for the ...

... EVERY year, the outstanding athletes of India meet together at an event which overshadows all other sporting events of the year the All-India Olympic Games. The tenth of the series was opened at the end of February 1944, at Lahore, by General Sir Claude Auchinleck, C.-in-C. in India, in the presence of the Maharajah of Patiala. Lahore, capital of the Punjab, was well chosen, for it is situated ...