... THE problem of reducing the amount of damage caused by wireworms among crops is still taxing the ingenuity of the economic entomologists. The Ministry of Agriculture has, through the Advisory staffs of the provinces, carried out an elaborate census of the wireworm population in the superficial layers of the soil. With the aid of a separator which removes 95 per cent, of the larva, large areas ...

... AYRSHIRE cattle are increasing rapidly in popularity, largely owing to their hardiness and ability to do well on poor grass land. These characterisdcs, inherited from their northern ancestors, with a steady milk yield and a good butterfats percentage, have made the Ayrshire dairy cattle widely known and appreciated in England. Strains adapted to heavy land have been evolved and have extended ...

... First Steps in Market Gardening The Course Ends By Carola Cochrane ANY vegetable which imagines it will have a frame or bed to itself at Oaklands, the Hertfordshire Institute of Agriculture, is making a big mistake, for intercropping ruins all its chances of privacy. We have sown carrot-seed between the rows of lettuces, and it would be equally useless for the carrots to think that when the ...

... THE 'annual and well-nigh traditional Woodbridge Horse Show once again attracted huge crowds on Easter Monday. People came from all parts of East Anglia and beyond to witness the county's finest horses on parade, and did not return home disappointed. The highest honours for stallions fell almost exclusively upon the entries from Stody Farms of Melton Constable who really recorded some re ...

... THE long-awaited match between Great Britain and the Dominions a fixture only possible, perhaps, in wartime was an Easter attraction at Leicester and ended in a decisive victory for the Mother Country by 36 points to 13. It was, of course, a Services affair, and the fact unfortunately deprived the Dominions of a number of their best men. The British fifteen included a powerful Welsh contingent ...

... I |8i The advance into German is proceeding so rapidly, an along so many differer. routes, that it is difficult t keep up with the Allie armies The pictures repro duced here (and on othe pages in the present issue have reached London durin the past few days. Theyi show scenes in what is noi the most devastated countr in the whole of Europe where the efforts of our air men and other branches o ...

... ON THE ROAD BETWEEN AACHEN AND COLOGNE. This is what Adolf Hitler demanded from his faithful Germans a few years before the war. The pic tures reproduced here show in very small part how his promise has been redeemed. With Germany devastated on every hand, the German people must now realise that the good years, when they could ravage everybody else's lands and pos sessions, are now over and ...

... IT is easy to laugh at the Werewolves. The idea of a people taking its cue from vampire human animals of medieval folklore in order to visit twentieth-century vengeance, has its comic side. It is when we place Bormann's exhortation beside the long history of German secret execution societies, the like of which no other nation has written, that Werewolves are stripped of their skins and shown ...

... Before the attack across the Rhine could be attempted, an immense volume of supplies had to be conveyed across Belgium and the River Maas to be piled up behind the Wesel bridgehead. Day after day, and all through the night, long supply columns of all kinds of transport brought the guns, shells, all kinds of ammunition, timber, food and medi cal supplies, repair p^rts, all the mechanised ...

... A SCENE IN BRUSSELS The British Army, on leave in the Belgian capital, decide to see a football match. These British soldiers got 48 hours' leave. They dashed to Brussels and decided to go to a football match. But here they encountered an unexpected difficulty there is a shortage of transport in- the capital of Belgium, and the trams were packed like tins of sardines, with a hanging annexe for ...

... The Hon. Mrs. Dennis Smyly and Her Sons Marcus Adams Married in 1939 to Lieutenant-Colonel Dennis Douglas Pilkington Smyly, Mrs. Smyly was formerly the Hon. Dorothy Margaret Berry, and is the third of the five daughters of the late Lord Buckland of Bwlch and of Lady Buekland, of Woolton Hall, Newbury. Her husband is at present serving overseas with his regiment. The Smylys have two sons, ...

... By Foresight Conquerors THE war in Europe marches lo its appointed end with the efficiency and apparent perfection which comes ultimately to conquering armies. The Allies are enveloping Germany in all their mechanical might from west and east and south. We are all waiting for the word which will formally announce the end of hostilities, but have you noticed how everybody peers into the ...