5 JUNE 1941, page 14

The National Loaf Judging By The Correspondence I Have...

many people besides myself have had difficulty in either getting or successfully making the wholemeal-loaf. (In many shops the loaf is damned by the label " Standard Bread.")......

" Christian Civilisation "

SIR,—While in no way wishing to detract from the fundamental importance of the principles enumerated by Mr. Davis, I feel prompted to ask whether he is justified in claiming......

In The Garden

Your celery trenches (not too deep) should be ready now. If they are fairly widely spaced remember that a quick-growing crop can be sown on the ridges: French breakfast-radish,......

Country Life

Another Farmer Speaks " The average inhabitant of this island knows less about soil, on which he depends for his existence, than about wireless-telephony." " Our pre-war imports......

The Angling Season By The Time These Notes Appear, The

angling season for coarse fish will be almost open. June 15th is the official date. Apart from the extraordinarily tranquillising effect of angling itself (I find it the only......

" Amputees "

sm,--It is excellent to have many people watching over the purity of our language, but how often they seem to be shocked at the wrong thing! After all, language is made for man,......

A Bald World

SIR,—If as Mr. H. G. Wells appears to think, we are in danger of being faced, within measurable time, by a " bald world," owing to the enormous demands made on forests to supply......