In connection with the "raise mor pigs" movement, the "Daily Mirror' recently struck a sour note, a story depicting the dilemma of pig and poultry growers in Heathfield, Sussex.
"If you are thinking of following the 'Keep poultry; rear a pig and produce your own' bacon' advice of the Ministry of Agriculture, you hac better look before you leap," said the irror."
"Otherwise, you may encounter difficulties like those in Healthfield Then most likely, you will have to wring the necks of your laying hens and the pig, half-grown, will have British Achievement 20 Weeks Ahead of Schedule Two fearsome-looking, camouflaged Wellington long-range bombers roared a few feet above my head recently, writes the Industrial correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph."
They were identical. Both were fully loaded—five members of the crew, six machine-guns and bombs. The performance possibilities of both machines are the same. Yet one tore through the air at a speed faster than that of any other type of bomber owned by the belligerents. The other moved, relatively, at a snail's pace.
It was a demonstration of the versatility and manceuvring capability of the world's best bomber, which is being produced here ata rate unimagined but a few months ago.
Not many hours before, these two bombers, now ready to move to their deedly business at a moment's notice, were receiving their finishing touches to go to the pork butcher before it dies on you." The "Mirror" said the Healthfeld pig and poultry fanciers had appealed to the Ministry of Agriculture for offals and other feeding stuffs, explaining that otherwise they would immediately have to kill off all their chickens and pigs.
"A few days passed," said the "Mirror," "but no feeding stuffs arrived and the Southfield residents scoured the countryside for miles around and managed to scrape together a small quantity of English oats at a high price and a few packets of expensive special products. It was only sufficient to keep most of the stock from starving." The "Mirror" added that further appeals to the Ministry from Southfield had not been answered.—United Press.
The girl was one of myriads of skilled, semi-skilled and unskilled] workers who are toiling night and day at the only factory in the world which is turning out aircraft on. what is known as the geodetic construction principle.
I was told that this system has solved many of the aeronautical problems of stress, form and weight. And while mass production, as commonly understood, is not possible, the firm in question is now 20 weeks ahead of a programme given more than two years ago, before one machine was completed.
So optimistic was the programme that resident Air Ministry ofücials implored the management to reduce it. The foresight and determination of the management, allied with the loyalty and willingness of the workers to make concessions, has won.
Geodetic construction, reduced to i means perfect Berne, Feb. 5.
Reports from Berlin say broke out in some parts of occupied by the Germans.
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