... Young Farmers in Four Counties Berkshire THESE happy young people are members of Young Farmers' Clubs in Berkshire. On succeeding pages are pic tures illustrating Y.F.C. acti vities in three other counties. The Y.F.C. movement con tinues to make immense strides and is supported by some of the most infiueptial agricul turists in the country. Young farmers, choosing in wartime to devote their ...

... ALTHOUGH Floors Farm, Eaglesham (near Glasgow), gained a wide notoriety when Hess landed on it in 1941, it is one which has a special interest in agricultural matters. Calf-rearing here is the main occupation, and ingenious methods in feeding, cleanliness, and especially in segregation, might well be fol lowed profitably on many other farms. The attested herd of Ayrshires usually number about ...

... TNVITATIONS to pay visits of inspection to well-known herds recently drew hundreds of acceptances, in spite of the fact that many of the visitors had to travel considerable distances. The English Ayrshire Cattle Breeders' Association arranged a visit to the famous Byton Herd at Wellington, by permission of Mr. W. H. Slater, attended by 800 people, and to the Charters Herd at the Manor and Home ...

... ENTRIES in many classes at the first post-war Peterborough Agricultural Society's show were larger than in 1939. Dairy cattle, pig, hunter and Shire classes were particularly well supported. The Championship of the heavy horses went to the Shire mare, Lymm Winnie, with a Suffolk filly in reserve. Among the lighter horses, Mr. W. H. Cooper's Beau Geste was the Champion Hunter. In the pig ...

... HAMPSHIRE DOWNS are very much in the news these days with a bulk shipment of 1,000 pedigree ewes and 50 rams to Czechoslovakia the other week and other exports from Sir William Rootes, well-known Stype flock of this breed to the United States, South America, Uruguay and Australia. Sir William tells us that at the moment he has enquiries from almost all over the world. At the annual last week, ...

... The Great Shorthorn Shov J at Perth I FROM THREE COUNTRIES The judges were Mr. R. K. Wright from North Ireland Mr. Charles Wyllie, from Argentina and Professor A. E. Darlotv who flew specially for the occasion from Oklahoma, U.S.A. CLUNY MARKSMAN: Calved April 14, 1945 and bred by Mrs. B. Hood Linzee Gordon, of Cluny Castle, Monymusk. First Prize winner in Class XIV. MR. DUNCAN STEWART'S ...

... THE BOAT RACE Cambridge University's crew. L. to r., Jackson (Boatman for last 52 yrs.), T. Sullivan (Oundle and Clare), It. Dewar (Trinity), reserve, P. Macdonnell Trinity TIall), G. Thomas Shrewsbury and Jesus), M. Nicholson (Eton and King's), D.Perrins Daunt sey's and Jesus), reserve. Sitting J. Gosse (Trinity Hall), J. Neame (Trinity Hall), stroke, J. Paton Philips Perse and St. John's), ...

... THE late harvest meant a correspondingly late start for cubbing in most areas, but now, with the opening of the season proper, some 200 hunts in Britain are beginning their activities in earnest. Many of the younger Masters and hunt servants have returned from military service, many new faces are seen in the field and the co-operation of the British farmer without which hunting would be ...

... j i THE sum of 1,000 guineas was paid for a bull, a second prize winner, at the two-day show and sale of Dairy Shorthorns at Reading. Top price for females on the first day was 360 guineas, 59 pedigree females averaging £168 7s. 2d., and three grading register females, £114 2s. Among the many buyers were several from Northern Ireland, including representatives from the Ulster Dairy School and ...

... OWING to the difficulty of restocking Scottish deer forests with sheep, Lord Brocket has tried the experiment of crossing a Hereford bull with a Highland cow with the object of producing a hardy and useful animal capable of withstanding the rigorous Highland winter. The cross-breed retains the white face of the Hereford without the white patch behind the poll, and also has much of the ...

... THE third Annual Show and Sale of Pedigree Shire Foals and Shire Mares and Fillies was held on Haydock Park Racecourse (Lanes.) under the organising body's curious title National Pedigree Shire Foal Produce Stakes. It was an excellent Show, well supported by a large com mittee and backed by sixteen patrons and eighty- three vice-presidents. Twenty-four entries were catalogued in the colt foal ...

... LAWN TENNIS AN E SQUASH: Angela Denin Cheltenham and St. Hilda's u captain of both teams. LAWN TENNIS R. W. Baker (Tasmania and Lincoln is a Rhodes Scholar reading Law. RUGBY FOOTBALL John Oswald Newton Thompson Stellenbosch University and Trinity), an ex-Fighter Pilot in S.A.A.F. Got his rugger blue as a Freshman and his cricket blue last June. CROSS COUNTRY Eric Mackay (Uppingham and Wadham) ...