18 APRIL 1941, page 15

A Use For Old Bottles

Janus " complains that he can find no one to relieve him of old bottles. May I say that in this town we find that our erina rY , urgeon is most grateful for bottles of all......

In The Garden

A sweet-toothed friend asks after the possibilities of sugar-beet as a source of household sugar. I am sceptical, but a correspondent writes to say that she grew. sugar-beet......

The Junior Officer's Pay —the Article Under The Above...

which you published in the e of April 4th most ably states the case for an increase in the pay the jun:or officer, and it is to be hoped it attracts attention from appror......

Down With Highbrows

am sorry that I misquoted Lord Elton as having used the highbrow. I am afraid that I must have been confused by rig, a: the same time as his books, an article about it in The......

Travelling Conditions

m,—No doubt your correspondent was actuated by chivalrous rigs in writing to complain of the unfortunate experience of the all-nurse in travelling a long distance to apply for a......

Grecian Hellebore Two Interesting Postscripts To Wild...

hellebore. A correspondent reports the daphne as having' been very common, at one time on the Wiltshire-Somerset borders, and now says that he finds it very common in the......

A Naval Chief .

ont of the ropoo ignorant ones referred to by " Janus" Your issue of. April 4th, perhaps he would kindly . inform us who 1"Janus " writes: I was, if I may confess it, one of the......

Country Life

Ley-Farming I recently noted the opinion of many farmers that the ploughing- up campaign seemed to be the result of a short-term rather than a long-term policy, and I suggested......

Tne Urgent Need It Is Impossible, In A Short Note,

to convey really adequately what ley-farming is. Sir George Stapledon defines it as " that system which takes the plough round practically the whole of the farm, and which is......