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... Talking of Birds Making White Leghorns Whiter CAPTAIN E DUCKWORTH, of Copthorne, Sussex, a successful exhibitor at the London Dairy Show and at the larger agricultural shows, takes great trouble to ensure that his birds are spotlessly clean when they set out to win rosettes. All light coloured entries selected are first given a shampoo, well-rinsed in clear water, sponged down, and then placed ...
... Longwood The Estate of Pierre S. Du Pont, Member of the Farmers' Club of Pennsylvania THE MANSION HOUSE. Part of the range of magnificent greenhouses. Much of the con struction work at Longwood was designed to give employment to skilled artisans during times of trade depression. TRIPLET HEIFER CALVES Mildred of Thorndale in May 1925 made history at Longwood by giving birth to triplet heifer ...
... War mer and Abbey con the ponies id was Charm P THIS year's Inter national Horse Show at the White City, which was attended by the King and Queen on the opening day, was a triumph for British show-jumping horses and riders, for the three major events went to the most country. Lieut. -Co; nel Llewellyn and Foxhv iter won the Moss Bros, -up on the second day, the same partnership ga ned the King ...
... j By Sydney Moorhouse THE Cumberland Show is one of the oldest in the north-west, for the East Cumberland Agricultural Society, fore runner of the present Cumberland Agricul tural Society, was holding its shows way back in the 1830's. With classes for a long time restricted to the county, the first attempts to attract competitors from farther afield by making many classes open to the United ...
... FUNGICIDES and insecticides are playing an increasing part, these days, in agricultural production, and the Shell Group had begun to develop them before the last war. Woodstock Farm-- near Sittingbourne, Kent-- is their third agricul tural research station, the other two being in the Netherlands and the United States, respectively. Woodstock lies in the centre of one of the principal fruit ...
... THE Royal Guernsey Show was held in the beautiful setting of Saumarez Park under ideal weather conditions in the pre sence of the Bailiff of Guernsey, the presi dents of both the English and South African Guernsey Cattle Societies, the vice-president of the Victoria Society from Australia, and other distinguished visitors. The entry was slightly higher in numbers than last year and, in the ...
... EDINBURGH 1950 THE INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF MUSIC AND DRAMA Each evening during the Festival, Sundays excepted, massed bands, pipers and Guardsmen go through the paces of a Military Tattoo on the Esplanade before the floodlit Castle. ...
... SEA-MINDED young Scots of both sexes are lucky to have several progressive clubs situated along the firths, well- loved sailing stretches which are anxious and willing to encourage their younger members. The Royal Clyde Y.C., for instance, recently formed a Cadet and Small Boat section with four club boats of the Loch O.D. Class, in which teen agers may master the fundamentals of racing ...
... ROYAL MOTOR YACHT CLUB, SANDBANKS. The R.M.Y.C. shares with the Royal Yacht Squadron the honour of having H.M. the King as Admiral in Command. Vice- Admiral Earl Mountbatten is, as seems fitting, Vice-Admiral. Though the Club is more national than local, it has its head quarters at Sandbanks, at the entrance to Poole Harbour. More than 390 craft of over 2i tons are on the register, and spread ...
... THE popular ballet Fancy Free is again in the repertoire of the American National Ballet Theatre, who have just opened a two-weeks season at the Opera House, Covent Garden, after taking part in the Edinburgh Festival. The last time they danced here was during the summer of 1946. Jerome Robbins' effervescent Fancy Free tells the story of three sailors (danced by Paul Godkin, Eric Braun and John ...
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