... ILLUSTRATED SPORTING AND DRAMATIC NEWS Potato Planting in Scotland TS ...

... Hedgerows are now all abloom with damson blossom in the Lyth Valley of Westmorland, while on the fells above Windermere the shepherd cares for his lambs among a host of golden daffodils. ...

... By Ashley Courtenay IN pre-war days to describe a place as at the back o' beyond was to sound a little derogatory. Nowadays the opposite is the case. To be able to enjoy quietude in Britain at the moment is a rarity, and an hotel that can provide this and lovely surroundings as well, has an asset, not a liability, to offer. What more attractive sanctuary than the subject of this week's ...

... Don't Waste Your Fruit-- Can It IN 1938, the last complete year of peace, we imported, according to the Ministry of Food's figures, approximately £9,000,000 worth of tinned fruit. Even if it were possible nowadays to import such an amount it would not be necessary, for up and down the country housewives who previously have either given away the fruit from their gardens, or sold it for ...

... THIRTEEN thousand people were at Lord's on Saturday for the return match between London Counties and M produced a day of perfect cricket and ended within five minutes of time with the defeat of the London CouniB by 104 runs. It was their first this season. The Empire XI declaring at 308 for 4, dismissed their opponents for 255 B of Northants and Cambridge, gave the Empire XI a flying start ...

... Bahram for U.S.A. Juvenile Stayers Races Sir Abe Bailey, Patriot and Sportsman THE Aga Khan's much-discussed Bahram has really been sold at last. The deal became operative at 6 p.m. on Thursday the 8th, although he was reported to have been sold many times previously to that date. The buyers were a syndicate of young American breeders whose names I, at any rate, am not permitted at the time of ...

... 'dK.mnrVhiyti wivv.i UiWKl. i9 twrilsVl rqUBP 1A4 qui IfnHkv7fH!V I BY VUPM ML In Dovedale, Derbyshire, there is snme of the most lovely country in all England, and the River Dove is one of the most famous of the trout-holding tributaries of the Trent. ...

... I DON'T suppose you know what to do with yourself these days, said my friend D.O.R.A., with some relish, with all the night clubs closed. Sorry to disappoint her, but, while sparing a tear for the Paradise, Boogie-Woogie, etc. (and registering a silent prayer for the success of their appeals there are still many clubs a thousand, they say, in the square mile round Piccadilly Circus where ...

... THE centenary of the Rothamsted Station the premier agricultural research institute occurs, appropriately enough, at a time when the debt owed by farming practice to science is realised. More than a hundred years ago, Lawes started a series of experiments on various problems of manures and plant nutrition, and was, later on, joined in 1843 by a brilliant chemist, J. H. Gilbert. The partnership ...

... An Important Herd in the Making Mr. Philip Hill as a Dairy Farmer ONE of the best guarantees of the future of farming in this country-- if indeed any more be needed-- is the way in which so many big men of business have bought land since the war, and have applied business methods to its cul- tivation. Capital has been applied generously towards the purchase of the latest machinery, fertilisers ...

... on. Mieuxce and the Younger French Sires THE notable successes in the past season of the stock of Nearco and, more especially, of Mieuxce', have called attention to the importance attached by British breeders to imported blood from the Continent. We have reason for being very grateful to Mr. Martin Benson and Sir Victor Sassoon for their enterprise in having secured these two stallions for the ...

... AS golfers know, it is a bit of a gamble fixing a friendly golf match in Decem- ber in our climate, and when the cheery captain of the City of Newcastle Golf Club suggested a Red Cross match to me, I think he knew it would be in the lap of the gods, for the all-important weather angle could not be ignored. It was worth a try, anyway, and, in any case, it meant that golfers of the club and ...