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BUT... where are the Cows?

CARBON DIOXIDE

CAS FORCED

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W

FENTIRANEH

THIS

{believe it or

not) is the-

SETTLING TAIL

PROCESSING PLANT

Farm of the Future-all souped up

T

HE drawing above shows the farm of the future--as visualised

by an eminent botanist, Professor William Pearsall, at the British Association meeting in Oxford.

It is a farm run like a fac- tory. A farm where all

operations are independent of the weather and where there are no pests or dis- eases to ravage the crops. Instead of sowing grain, grisk, or vegetables the

Krautiful Bro Who were ter

f.sh.

w any other_High_1_

...ful

ROUP)

SO sang the Mock Turtle to Alice, in Wonderland. The scientists of today, creating A new wonderland, sing the praises of a new kind of soup...the kind they want to "grow" In the farms-of- the-future. Here they are, described for you by-

Food production could be continued round the clock by using electric light at night.

When the "soup" is thick enough it is run off into a set- tling tank. After being "har vested" there the crop is frozen or canned and later processed into edible, appetising food.

All this is far more than rcientist's pipe dream.

of this Pilot-scale "arms" type are already in operation in America, Japan, and Holland In Britain much promising han been Laboratory work

farmer specialises in CHAPMAN PINCHER Accomplished.

growing countless millions of minute water plants which build up food for humans and animals many times faster than any ordinary crops.

Here is the process of "factory farming" as fore- ween by Professor Pearsall and other scientists....

sunlight so that they grow and multiply rapidly.

dioxide

have

Special strains of a nutritious water-plant called Chlorella, which produces enormous yields, developed. These been plants could be kept free from disease simply by adding a onsil amount of penicillin "or some similar drug to the wafer in the pipes,

The scientists are now search-

Professo

industriálisation of

"Stand by for an acute, attack of Grandma's deafness—I'm just going to tell her to get ready for home”.

Giles, will chars the Family's returs from Scotland this week.

(London Express Service)

IN THE NEW QUESTION-MARK COUNTRY, ROVING REPORTER MâçCOLL FINDS TOP MEN ARGUING ABOUT THE FACTS OF POLITICAL 'LIFE

INVASION? It's coming says the general; it isn't, says the chief of police

T

someone why energy.

p saying he is spons

SIA

CHIN

Yunnan and the threat-from beyond the border?

In a few days the liquid circulating in the pipes looks like thick pea-soup and is enormously rich in fat, pro. tein, and starchy nutriment. Ing for similar plants which grow in hot springs, They think that

Well, the general is sure that HE QUESTION 18: and some of them motor. the Communist standard inside

the country,

something is abbot In: Yunnan, The plants are fed with by running a "factory form" at

Does high temperature even greater

Stem which bike powered).

Whether Kharb is long on! As he sees it, a foxes of 20,000 He is a relaxed, friendly, large amounts of liquid yield of food could be obtained.

signed the eight- Water "deeded" with a fertilisers pumped through

After half an hour of accuracy or not, there's no get men perhaps more is building intelligent man, immaculate in

away Power SEATO pact

from the fact that up and may eventually, invade, cream-coloured suit and light- Meal TestsTM

a whirlwind of Alroady, he declares, few of the minute plants is the pipes. As the air in the

the brown display handkerchief in to deter Communist aggres fighting the muddy fight the Le

Siamess across the border are his outside breast pocket Rosm pumped ceaselessly through pipes is also. "fertilised"

Pearsall believes alon-face early Communist (If you nak

He holds three demanding being made to: bulish strategle on the table, Tea and cakes long colled tubes made of with carbon

gRB,

His,white hair brushed cares transparent plastic. In this their growth is boosted far that usus bo cssential to aggression herself whether so many of the streets are jobs, and one thing being

Pridi Phanomyong the former fully back, are told: "Because we are General to the Prime Minister; Premier? "He has made a broad- way the plants are exposed beyond anything possible in feed the fast-increasing popule by invasion or by subver- partially under water you for most people (1) Secre to the maximum amount of a normal atmosphere.

tion of the world. Under the alon?

widening them")

cast from Peking. present system of agriculture, farmers are using only a minute THE ANSWER is difficult here we are at the fraction of the sun's energy fall--because top-ranking Slam cffice of Lieut. mg on their fields.⚫

ese seem to have remarkably General Momluang Meal tests people and various views on the sub Kharb Kunchorn. animals show that the green stuff-

ject. Is directly edible as soup or es a spinach-ilke vegetable. But

of processing it into Let us first of all make methods more acceptable foods will have our way as best we can to be devised.

through the waterlogged The fat extracted from the streets of Bangkok, which plants could be made into mar-present one of the worst garine and cooking dat. The traffic problems I have ever proteins could be processed into encountered in long years of some meat substitute.

enduring 20th-century traffic Would people accustom them-problems. selves to having this kind of food on their tables?

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sored by Mao and Inciting the of

the

"Oh yes, I've heard about 1 --but so far there is no evidence -in support of it."

There are nearly 3,000,000

Why puny?

(2) Deputy Chief of Staff of people." National Deferice;

The Washington report that “Mr Pridi"--that "`ls the "way General Kharb (for that's

(3) Chief of Public Relations that that name boils down--is Chinese living in Siam today-

under treatment for a drug one-sixth of the population. the correct way to boll it all for the Siamese Government.

other down) it was who, the

While wo talked we were addiction proves highly Intrigu but they are successful expita» *** Urts, don't you see, and pot day, caused eyebrows to rise in constantly interrupted by the ing

much chance that they will chanecilerin serves the world arrival of obsequious officers

Brown-faced, twinkling and form a Fifth Column, by stating that a fighting force bearing documents for the ap

Kharb of men of That (Siamese) stock proval of Kharb in his No 1 Immaculate, General

recalls that "the poor fellow" living in the Yunnan Province and No. 2 capacities.

was wont to suffer from a nasty of Red China was

Tho English words "Top Momach trouble in the old days panised under the leadership pouret, of course,” were much before he vanished in '48., WHO of a former Siamese Primo Siamese in those, asides,

in evidence among the gush of knows? He might have taken DHAO helps himself to a Bri-

to drugs as # · result?

tish cigarette, "I supposó L Minister, Pritli Phanomyong.

might be possible, but honestly Our little British-built

Our talis was also punctuated

Now for the other side of the I don't think anything is going He forcast that this foros by the repeated breakdown of picture let's over (at.eight in to pop in a big way. "Outside Says Professor Pearsall: "The taxi threads its way through

either the electricity supply a recur- the morning, for he works 16 threats are not nearly as impor* development would involve a the snarl of huge American, would in due season

como crashing into Slam with rent thorn in Bangkok's side hours a day and makes appoint tant or internal atairs and one's widening of our traditional idea, glitter jobs and some of the guns aber for ways to her and when in happened the mener at pinang rumoros tarp on them, the

would go dark, all General Phao, (pronounce little since the Bronze Age, but many thousands of pedicabs Buana or Land, because

border with fans streets has no common

stop whirring, and the Pow) Briyanond, boss of Siam's A bugle walls ; outside jam the

China) or would infiltrate in beads of sweat they may now be regarded as which

start out on Ministry of the interior and there comu the hourzo · yells, (aristocratic pedicabs these, small bemin across the duo for expansion."

jungly both our foreheada simul- her 55,000-strong police force of command from some of -(London Express Served) all new and smartened up mountainous border and set up taneously.

(bigger than her army),

Phao's police. After all," ́he muses ziklły)why is Communism. so puny: an affair in Britain?.

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an food have changed

THE

NATHANIEL GUBBINS continues

JOURNAL

TN the last instalment of

Mrs Dale's Diary it was re- vealed that Madame Lulu Frou-Frou, the married lady contortionist, was in love with Dr du Pont and not with his son, Pierre, as was previously supposed.

visit or pat

Dr du Pont: She want me to;

because aho lavo paing in ze sicomach.

Mme du Pont: Let 'er bring or stoomach 'ere and I will give 'er more paine in it..:

(The telephone rinya again. The doctor kumpa up from the tablo and grabs his stethoscope.)

of MADAME du PONT

Mme du Pont: A Frenchman: is nevaire 100 old. Look at zie monsteur, your fazzer..

(Pierro enters.)

Pierre: Madame Frou-Frou say on za telephone zat, if ze docteur does not visit er að once she will tell about my muzzer and 'er loveur who keep. ze wine shop,

But Pierre was all "madMme du Pont: No, you shall Dr du Font: So. Ze man at ze wine shop is my wife's wiz love" for Madame Frou- not answer.

Jovour?

Frou, the doctor's daughter, Dr du Pont: It may be anux- Marle, was atill wondering zer patient. whether to sell 'er l'at shop"

احمد

Mme du Pont; It le not

or not, we left Madame du anuzter patient and you shall Pont wildly Jealous of Madame not put zat, stethoscope, on T Frou-Frouand le Capitaine, Forrible chest. Remember itave the tiresome cat belonging Mádámo-la Beun, the doctor's. been on my chert..

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mother-in-lawy, was up a tree Grethey, struggle for a the

AN LIBURŽ

ginning of this

stethoscope.)

Ponti

and Madame du broken

banh. The

Mme du Pont, weeping: He in not my loveur.

Dr du Pont: Ow is it zot wa get a bet wine su cheap if he le not your Joyeur?

Mmé, du Pónt, screamings.

not my loveur.

Pont, shoutingi dame

Nor my,

Mme le Brun, weeping: You must alp me. La Capitaine is up a tree wiz anuzzer cat.”

Dr du Font: Ah, le Capitaine also 'ave a loveur, Wo all "avo loveurs.

(The telephone:........., ringa again, Dr. du Pont anaWern 12)

I pause with pencil poised, expecting something. about democracy and sturdy British common senge, Bẩy surprise, [therefore, in the greater when, be goes ont "Because; your Internal security is so well organised."

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BA man who loves his job, thi At one time doctors used to rovingly he talks of the 14 bel nak: "Are you eating well?" copters he has aloft over Today they ask: “Are you eating borders and of his 15,000-st too much?

MEN MEN special border guarda int Margaret's father works out policy is to use them before we

use the army?) 172 the cost of everything by the price of whisky.... He bays a new Proudly he speaks of the' baby car costs about 2,500 pecial plain-clothes men we provincial doubles, depending on the kind maintain. In every ¡of bark

you use town and the suppression

Dr. du Pont: But, yes, my

TRES Poker aquiada" who are held in readi little pigeon/ Of course," "my Now he's married to a hot new to make for any little pigeon. In a few moments tempered winan: Juggler, he can spot.

will be with you my little tell you zore about Aging

194 29 Even now, 30 fiamese saucers than anybody,

14 man" are taking She ma be deadly dull Butik InṣBritain:- Aðd

unkind to introduce : gose to Britain di No

Who Dr du Pont's Hitle pigeon? Is: Madame Frou" FrOL? Or somebody else? How does Madame du Pont -

Ner wine so cheaply? To

Wit Marie/can't an her hat ihop? Who will it pricas,

"and why? If you

(to know Biztank with MOTHER NELZE week as another

Prosperous