... IN a small Dutch village just behind the British front line a Dutch landowner has lent his shooting- box for the benefit of officers on 48 hours' leave from the front. They are his guests at the com fortable little lodge, and they spend their precious two days after duck, pheasant and rabbit. The countryside is not unlike that of our own Fenland a flat plain criss-crossed by innumerable ...

... Reconstructing Rural Cottages Part 2 By a Land Agent There is a remedy for everything could we but hit upon it. Proverb. WHEN engaged upon the absorb ing task of reconstructing and preserving genuine old country homes, the owner would, I think, be wise to bear these words ever in mind; especially as he may well need all his ingenuity and re sourcefulness to hit upon the remedy assured him ...

... THE origin of the dominant race in Uganda is still a matter of conjecture, as the N.E. highlands of Africa were almost unknown until the days of Speke and Stanley. There are two distinct races in Uganda: a tall, cattle-keeping people, and a small Nilotic race who are hard-working farmers. The diet of the cow-peoples consists of blood, milk and flesh. The pictures show some interesting cus- ...

... By A. Croxton Smith THE price of dogs is what they will fetch, just as that of a horse is. A lot depends upon the breed, the place a dog occupies at shows in comparison with others of his kind, the sex, and perhaps, above all, the seller. Don't think me a cynic for assigning so much importance to the vendor, for shrewd men and women reap the benefit of their cleverness without necessarily ...

... [From Our Parliamentary Correspondent.] Westminster, Monday, January 29. THE last of the 3,000 war time agricultural cottages are now being completed in 64 dis tricts. This welcome news was given to the Commons by Miss Florence Horsbrugh, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health. The pro gramme was put into operation two years ago when Mr. Ernest Brown was Minister of Health and it is ...

... By a Land Agent A farmer cannot give too much atten tion to the fences of his farm for without good ones, he might as well cultivate open fields. (The Far mer's Calendar. 1862.) EIGHTY-THREE years have but added further proof to the truth of these words; and as a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, so is a fence only as efficient as its weakest spot, of which fact our four-footed ...

... By Our Horticultural Correspondent THE importance of lettuces as the princi pal salad crop is sufficient justification for devoting most of this article to their cultivation. They are not easy to grow during the winter and even as an outdoor crop in the summer many amateur growers fail to achieve entirely satisfactory results with them. Valuable work carried out at the Cheshunt Experimental ...

... From Our Parliamentary Correspondent. Westminster, Monday, February 12. WITH 800,000 acres of farm land in the hands of the Government for war purposes other than food produc tion it is impossible not to share the wide spread concern over the powers which the Government are seeking in the Requisitioned Land and War Works Bill, to which the Commons was this week being asked to give a second ...

... A Burmese Market :t-Place JUST before I 36th Divisi some impoi after driving 0: intact, and a e were captured. J and after the ft quantities o it in by the Bum Army caterers, and the colon itl and many ctlift sale, either icu J f hristmas, British troops of the fa occupied Katha a town of ance on the Irrawaddy River the Japanese. The town was trge amount of enemy stores \atba has a large ...

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... BLACK WHITE BLACK i WHITE 'Time for Bed9 When it is bed time it is also time to take a glass of BLACK AND WHITE. This will ensure a quiet and refreshing sleep and soothe the worries of these trying times. ...

... Over the Sticks The Second Meeting of the Year at Cheltenham Fir Cone and Red Prince, first and second in the Lilley Brook Handicap, take the water, ivith Ablington Southport leads over the first hurdle in the Northleach Handicap Hurdle, won by Kipper Kite with Nicholson up Lord and Lady WiUoughby de Broke and Capt. J. M. Dennis Mrs. Diana Smyly and Mrs. Stephen Player in the paddock Five ...