... GALLOWAY cattle are well known for their hardiness and they will fatten well on poor exposed grazing land in the cold and wet climate of their native country. They are in great demand for crossing with other breeds for beef production, and the Galloway- Shorthorn cross is perhaps the best-known type. If white or light-roan Shorthorn bulls are used most of the progeny are polled and blue-grey. ...

... . By D. H. Watson-Wood COURSING par excellence. Such aptly describes the standard of the trials held at Druids Lodge on November 24, 25, and 26. Quite apart, however, from the meritorious tests provided by a succession of strong running hares, there were other features associated with the meeting which will render it memorable in the history of South of England coursing. Outstanding was the ...

... IN the autumn of 1942 the Lancashire W.A.E.C. undertook the reclamation of about 200 acres in the valley of Kirkby Pool a narrow stream situated between Ulverston and Barrow-in-Furness. The whole area was covered with a thick mat of rushes with bent grass and all of it was liable to flood. The Upper Lonsdale Catchment Board has carried out a scheme for widening and cleaning the bed of the ...

... LONDON RUGBY UNION helped Guy's Hospital to bring their centenary cele brations to a proper conclusion at Honor Oak Park at the end of last month. London came into being some years before the last war with the laudable intention of enabling the four Rugby counties of Middlesex, Kent, Surrey and Eastern Counties to combine in one strong team against the might of touring sides from the Dominions ...

... By A. Croxton Smith SPORT is a great social equaliser. Indeed, one might say that it has played an important part in bringing all sections of the com munity together. Those of us who have been reared on the land know what fox-hunting means to the countryside. While reading a book on the chase, I came across a news paper cutting pasted on a page in the chapter on the Duke of Beaufort's pack. ...

... By Our Horticultural Correspondent HERE is a record of achieve- ment in food production which is surely unique. It is the story of a very busy man who has converted a one and a quarter acre flower and pleasure garden into an intensely cultivated and highly productive vegetable plot. That, you may say, is nothing out of the ordinary in war time. But in this particular instance the idea was to ...

... WAR TIME VEGE ill [A Mr. A. G. bymmons, of 'atform Show this year. The getabla I 0 VCTION The picture shows the great display of vegetables grown by pi rrjngta by him as an honorary exhibitor at the Watford Horticultural Ire presented by Mr. Symmons to the lied Cross Agricultural Fund. ...

... FOREST LODGE, BLAIR ATHOLL Venison for the dishes shown below came from this most famous of all Scotland's deer forests. The hind season is from the middle of November till the end of March about the same number of hinds should be shot as stags each season. HANGING THE VENISON: By dusting with powdered ginger or pepper and keeping dry, it will be good for a fortnight. Here we have haunch, neck ...

... Ey A. Croxton Smith SOME little time ago a photo- graph was published of smooth fox terriers belonging to a lady who proclaimed her dislike of show dogs. Everyone is entitled to his, or her, opinion, but in this case it was evident that the lady's terriers were uncommonly well bred, there being nothing common or mean about them. They had a quality and style that marked them out as coming from ...

... AS part of the centenary cele brations of Guy's Hospital Rugby Club, the Hospital were invited to a match on Rugby School Close, where the Rugby game originated in 1823. Guy's won the game against the School Past and Present by 4 tries (12 points) to 2 tries (6 points). P. E. Dunkley (Harlequins, Warwickshire and England) refereed the match. The Teams: Guy's Hospital (in striped shirts) G. ...

... THE Earl of Radnor, whose country home is Longford Castle, Salisbury, is a well- known authority on agriculture and an enthusiastic worker in the many problems of war time food production. He is the chairman of the Agricultural Machinery Development Board which will play an important part in the future of British farming, and is also a liaison officer to the Minister of Agriculture, a member ...

... The Lesser Two-Year-Olds AS I am firmly convinced that none of the top-weights in the 1943 Free Handicaps for two-year-olds will count for any thing in the Derby of next year, it may be as well to set out a few particulars relating to those of more modest avoirdupois. The following notes will not, therefore, concern Orestes, Happy Landing, the filly Fair Fame, or Effervescence. I have nothing ...