... THE judges at a stack-building and thatching competition for beginners in the Faversham, Canterbury and Sittingbourne area of Kent made some very interesting comments on the work of the com petitors. The judges considered that the main faults in stack-making were that the sheaves were laid too flat and the base of the stack was often made lamer than required for the crop. Another comment was ...

... i; r HPHE aeroplane has provided personnel of the anti-locust campaign with an extremely effective means of combating a serious menace to African and Asian agri culture. The formation of an R.A.F. Anti- locust Flight, assisted by detachments of the East African Auxiliary Pioneer Corps, has done much to reduce the locust menace. The general method is to locate a settled swarm of the pests and ...

... THE shapes of our traditional farm implements form a history of their de velopment, each implement being perfected during long years of use in the workshop. The first farm-carts were clumsy structures on solid wheels, heavy, cumbersome and unreliable. From them have grown the many types in use to-day, from the two- wheeled dung-cart, which must jolt its way over the uneven fields, to the ...

... THE Commonwealth of Australia has high hopes that her rapidly-growing wine industry will become one of her greatest post-war assets, for much money and research have been devoted to its development over the past twenty years. In actual fact, the industry can be said to have started from scratch during the years immediately following the last war, when vast sums -of money were earmarked by the ...

... OUR good friends in America seem to be rather worried over the publication by some of their Government Depart ments of statistics concerning their war effort. The wonderful-- almost fantastic-- contribution made by the U.S.A. has been pardy obscured, in American eyes, by some of the unfortunate figures in the official reports. It is possible, too, that those American citizens who had studied ...

... EVANS SONS LESCHER WEBB LTD VANS SONS LESCHER WEBB LTD Liverpool and London Tarmer and Stockbreeder Photograph Protect your flocks with EVANS LAMB DYSENTERY SERUM Once any lamb in your flock is already affected with Lamb Dysentery no known treatment can save it. The seasonal spread of the disease, however, can be controlled by the adoption of protective measures at lambing time, the danger ...

... THE BRITISH ARMY VERSUS THE E.L.A.S. IN ATHENS: a DISTANT VIEW OF MOUNT LYCABETTOS, WHICH IS NOW IN BRITISH HANDS; in the foreground a soldier scans the rooftops for hostile snipers in the city streets below Mr. Winston Churchill and Mr. Anthony Eden have been to Athens and returned to London the Archbishop Damaskinos has been appointed Regent in place of King George of the Hellenes and yet ...

... Just before Christmas, many of our soldiers who were lucky enough to get leave to England paid a visit to the Brussels shops and market-places for toys and presents to take home. Others who were not so lucky never theless did a tour of the shops and posted their gifts home. Busy scenes were to be witnessed in all the shops and stores, where a good supply of articles was to be found. There were ...

... _ 0 AS we are now entering the sixth year of war, it is time to hold a National Health stocktaking. How do we stand, physically and mentally, after all this total warfare, with its attendant blitzes, nerve strain, rationing and direction? The answer is surprisingly cheerful, to judge by a perusal of the as yet unpublished findings of the Ministry of Health. Arrnrdinrr to the pvnprts the most ...

... f j I 'l ^Hj WJ Jm /wSEN PEACE When Anglepoise Lamps be gin to light up writing desk, reading corner and knit ting circle we shall know that peace is here. Until then we crave your patience (you have been very very patient). Then you will enjoy its amazing obedience and flexibility, its many A\\ angles of lighting focussed on Ij the object not in your eyes. Ill On sale with Victory /i SOLE ...

... When the great German break-through into Belgium took place, the Americans in Bastogne, on the south side of the salient, were cut off. Lying on the flank of the advancing Germans the possession of this town was of the utmost importance but although called upon by the enemy to surrender and in danger of annihilation, the garrison held out, and for eight days they resisted the heaviest of ...

... A PICTURE TAKEN IN THE GREEK CAPITAL ON DECEMBER 16, when a company of British paratroops, supported by two Sherman tanks, patrolled the streets from strong-points and searched buildings where E.L.A.S. partisans were thought to be in hiding. With them went Greek policemen (on right). Here soldiers and police are seen moving up warily and under constant sniping into turipionou street, tneir ...