... AFTER five years we can now get un censored news from Switzerland and learn something of what has been happening to that pleasure-ground where so many of our readers spent happy holidays in summer or winter. The Swiss are fully conscious as to what it has meant to them to be spared the major hardships of war, and they are looking forward to resuming their business of service and accommodation ...

... I For the protection of Hilkmg Cows and Other Stock y against Jj*' ■^PExr^ CATTLE FLY SPRAY THE intense irritation caused by flies results in a definite drop in the milk yield. They also act as 'carriers' of dangerous diseases such as Mastitis. Pex sprayed directly on cows and other farm stock, and sprayed regularly about cowsheds and farm buildings will destroy all flies. This will ...

... AUSTINS are making cars again Production of the Austin Eight and the Austin Ten de luxe four-door sliding-head saloons is being resumed for supply through Austin distri-. butors and dealers to holders of Ministry of War Transport licences issued to persons engaged on work of vital national importance. PRICES EIGHT SALOON £255 Plus approx. £71 Purchase Tax TEN SALOON £310 Plus approx. £87 ...

... IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIM ROBINSON'S S 'Patent' BARLEY cvs-6i You've been very patient says OLD HETHERS I know you've missed my bottled Robinson's Lemon Barley Water, for many have written to tell me so. It's true that it will return with peace, which, we all hope, is not far away, but in the meantime, I suggest that you make your barley water at home, from ...

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... SHEFFIELD was fortunate to be chosen as the scene for the second Victory Test, for it was a match full of thrills, which will Ion? be remembered by those who were present. Winning the toss, Australia sent England in to bat on a wet wicket, and had it not been for Walter Hammond's masterly century not forgetting Washbrook's 63 our first innings total would indeed have been unimpressive. ...

... BY OUR HORTICULTURAL CORRESPONDENT THE following observations on the sum mer treatment of fruit trees should be read in conjunction with those given in our last issue, as the latter were unavoid ably curtailed owing to pressure on space. Young fruit trees, planted last autumn or since then, may now be in need of a helping hand. It is of first importance to see that they are well secured to ...

... 'IIT i Gold Coast I ^0x7*^ Ill I HB^BI Ifiiin I ilBMi Harvest Festival jwEfE ON the Gold Coast, the ancient harvat festival (Nnayem) of the Krobo peope marks the termination of the agricultural year which is reckoned from mid-November if October. The whole festival centres around t> i nma (or millet), which is said to have been tt i THE CHIEF OF DJEBIAM, in the State of Manya Krobo, Gold Coast ...

... Mechanised Market Gardening Pershore growers watch demonstrations A DEMONSTRATION of rowcrop tractor work, spraying and mechanical plant-setting, arranged by the Worcestershire W.A.E.C. and the Tractor Users' Association, was held on Captain J. F. Bomford's farm at Fladbury, near Pershore. Many different types of implements specially adapted for market gardens were lent by farmers in the ...

... Oxford v. Cambridge at Lord's Light Blues win by 10 wickets SUPERIOR in almost every phase of the day's play, Cambridge beat Oxford by the convincing margin of ten wickets at Lord's, in a match limited to one day. Oxford after winning the toss and deciding to bat met disaster after disaster. J. D. Cairns, the opening bat with R. H. Parry, was dismissed by Eckersley with the fourth ball of the ...

... HOMEWARD-BOUND AMERICAN TROOPS RE-CROSS TO THE UNITED STATES ON THE GIANT BRITISH LINER QUEEN MARY: The first cross-Atlantic voyage that vessel has undertaken since Victory Day, with 14,000 American soldiers crowding her decks Now that the war in Europe is over, the hundreds ol thousands of American soldiers who helped to bring it to a victorious conclusion are already being transported back ...

... The Eagle's Nest was built for Adolf Hitler in 1938. It stands on the peak of a mountain which is nearly a mile higher than the surrounding valley. This house, overlooking the town of Berchtesgaden and much higher than the Führer's own residence, the Berghof, was made of granite carved out of the nearby mountain-side: it was used by Hitler for important conferences or when he wished for ...