... Food, Clothes, Cc ii oii and Shelter Plants of Great Economic Uses Gi r\ wii at Cambridge Botanic Gardens FEW of the thousands of Londoners taking a stroll round Kew Gardens in the spring and summer realise that these famous gar dens do not exist solely to give pleasure to the public, and that the experimental and research work carried out there by the staff of botan ical experts is of benefit ...

... By THE Derby, to be decided at Epsom on Wednesday, June 5th, is providing some unusual problems. Not the least of them is the handling of the huge crowds which will certainly attend it. Racing is enjoying a boom such as it has never known before, and the police and other authorities concerned will have their hands more than full to deal with the traffic and the feeding of the multitudes. ...

... By A. CROXTON SMITH ON a Wednesday recently the Dachshund Club held its victory championship show in the London Scottish Drill Hall, Buckingham Gate, London, with that accomplished breeder, Major P. C. G. Hayward, judging the dogs and Mrs. L. Cecil Wright the bitches. Apart rrom a suostanuai entry or over ooo several features of interest call for comment. One of the first things that impressed ...

... THE late harvest meant a correspondingly late start for cubbing in most areas, but now, with the opening of the season proper, some 200 hunts in Britain are beginning their activities in earnest. Many of the younger Masters and hunt servants have returned from military service, many new faces are seen in the field and the co-operation of the British farmer without which hunting would be ...

... j i THE sum of 1,000 guineas was paid for a bull, a second prize winner, at the two-day show and sale of Dairy Shorthorns at Reading. Top price for females on the first day was 360 guineas, 59 pedigree females averaging £168 7s. 2d., and three grading register females, £114 2s. Among the many buyers were several from Northern Ireland, including representatives from the Ulster Dairy School and ...

... THE third Annual Show and Sale of Pedigree Shire Foals and Shire Mares and Fillies was held on Haydock Park Racecourse (Lanes.) under the organising body's curious title National Pedigree Shire Foal Produce Stakes. It was an excellent Show, well supported by a large com mittee and backed by sixteen patrons and eighty- three vice-presidents. Twenty-four entries were catalogued in the colt foal ...

... LAWN TENNIS AN E SQUASH: Angela Denin Cheltenham and St. Hilda's u captain of both teams. LAWN TENNIS R. W. Baker (Tasmania and Lincoln is a Rhodes Scholar reading Law. RUGBY FOOTBALL John Oswald Newton Thompson Stellenbosch University and Trinity), an ex-Fighter Pilot in S.A.A.F. Got his rugger blue as a Freshman and his cricket blue last June. CROSS COUNTRY Eric Mackay (Uppingham and Wadham) ...

... Restoration of the Guildford club when the premises were no longer required to be used as a barrage balloon factory is a triumph. It is a triumph over a supply order that could not permit wood to be used for the work as well as for the Surrey smith whose hand wrought the iron artistically fashion ing the interior and the front door. Behind the ironwork of the front door is a glass panel, lit ...

... Women j Power Town and Country Kitchen Planning NOW that the incomparable clean liness and convenience of power replaces elbow-grease and robots the vanished domestic staff, women everywhere take a keen in terest in the maintenance of their kitchen kit. Last week one hundred and fifty Electrical Housecraft Ad visers and senior saleswomen from all over Great Britain held a three day conference ...

... Wensleydale and Wharf edale By ASHLEY COLRTENAY THE normal route taken by motorists, southward bound from Penrith, is by Kendal, Lancaster and Preston, or via Brough and over Bowes Moor to Scotch Corner and thence down the Great North Road. Here is a pleasurable diversion for those who have time to amble and halt awhile. Good surfaced roads little frequented, fells, dales, and every now and ...

... TURKEYS are rather delicate-- they origin- ated in a warm climate-- and they are greedy feeders, needing plenty of fresh air and exercise with large quantities of succulent green food. The birds shown in the pictures were given a mash of roots mixed with kale, cabbage, waste potatoes, and other home- produced green crop plants. This mixture was cooked in large steam-heated tanks with a small ...

... PR A CT ICE Now they can slip collar, bridle and pad on the horse themselves without assist ance. The student is buckling the throat lash like an expert. PASSENGERS They thought it a great joke, when they were mere visitors, to travel in the farm catt around the grounds, and smiled a little self-consciously at the camera. WORKERS They appreciate the toughness of work with the farm cart and are ...