... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... SAFEGUARD YOUR FOOD CROPS^ ■■■■I ■nwMi BULWARK VAVAVi' i ...

... y 6, 1945 ZrttmrM, pleJL muC be safe, fortnightly ILLUSTRATED SPORTING AND DRAMATIC NEWS ...

... A COLONY that has, for any reason, become queen less and has neither eggs nor young larvae from which to raise a queen will often produce laying workers. Their presence is detected by the irregular way in which their eggs are laid, several eggs being found in one cell quite often, and by the fact that only drones hatch out. Laying workers must be stamped out or the colony will perish. As they ...

... 5USSEX HERD BOOK SOCIETY No Cattle are HARDIER sussex cow or more THRIFTY than the Farmer Stockbreeder Photograph SUSSEX Sussex Cattle by E. Walford Lloyd (10/6) tells you all about them BROADWAY EAST, DENHAM, near UXBRIDGE, MIDDLESEX ...