3 APRIL 1942, page 11

Reflection

SLOWLY the long downs roll With the wave's regularity: The parallel streams Idle through meadows, Cool the unhurried cattle, Down through the mud-flats To the rip-tide estuary.......

In The Garden

Those who keep poultry will do double service if they give their hens all the chickweed they dig up, as well as any unused bulbous roots, which should be sliced but not cooked.......

Country Life The Government In Its Wisdom Has Probably...

a deal of good food to destruction by forbidding the present sale, except under special privilege, of the variety of potato called by the magnificent name of "Majestic." The......

Predacious Prosperity

The war seems to encourage predatory animals as well as predatory nations. I should estimate that the number of jays in the country round me has trebled within the last year or......

Setting The Pace

Very different accounts have been given of the Italian prisoners now working on English farms. Here is one of the more compli- mentary sort. A fellow-worker on a very......

A Feline Amenity

An agricultural labourer, who turns his hand with intelligence to many jobs, perhaps even poaching, dug up a nest of very young rabbits. Having some difficulty in finding enough......

The Cinema

March of Time." Generally released.--" Builders." Generally released.—" The Man Who Came Back." At the London Pavilion. THIS is a week in which the battle, Fact versus Fiction,......

The Fact That Goods Made Of Raw Materials In Short

supply owing to war conditions are advertised an this journal should not be taken as an indication that they are necessarily available for export.......