... ON THE BATTLEMENTS of Thurso Castle. Situated in the northmost part of the Scottish mainland, the Castle commands a superb view across the Pentland Firth to the Orkneys. AN AFFECTIONATE GREETING: Sir Archibald renews acquaintance with two of his dairy herd and with him are Lady Sinclair and his sons, Robin and Angus right Mt I 3- ■Bi THIS YOUNG CALF is only too pleased to receive a visit from ...

... Look to Your Garden Beauty and Utility Well Balanced at Stoke Place By Our Horticultural Correspondent IT is my privilege to visit some of the finest gardens, large and small, in the Home Counties, and in accepting the Editor's invitation to contribute to The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News I hope to be of some service to readers in helping them over their war-time gardening ...

... Strong Hopes of a Resumption Popular Racing v. Closed Meetings A More Cheerful England The Guarantee System. IT now seems likely-- and an official pre liminary announcement may have been issued since these notes were written-- that racing will be resumed early in September. If this is so, the loss, since the closing-down in mid-June, will amount to about 120 days of racing, according to pre ...

... Wooderson Does Fastest Mile ot the Season FIVE thousand spectators at Tooting Bee on Saturday saw Sydney Wooderson run the fastest mile of the season. He finished in 4 min. 13.4 sec., and as he was running in a field of 18 on a loose track and with a blustering wind the performance must be ranked among his best. He did the last quarter his fastest in 60 sec., and was surprised at his own ...

... was celebrated in the little Sussex village of Elsted on the evening of July 30. Members of the West Sussex Y.F.C., led by the Rector, walked to a cornfield, where the simple ceremony of blessing the loaf and the first sheaf of corn took place. The scene, with the farm wagon in the foreground, the ripe wheatfield, the South Downs glorious in the sunshine, and the eager young people joining in ...

... THE Suffolk Sheep Society held a success ful two-dav Show and Sale at Ipswich on August 2 and 3, the second day being devoted to rams, when some 200 animals appeared in the ring. Ram lambs are in request by flock-owners, who have to look ahead in making their selection of breeding stock. There was some spirited bidding for good lambs from well-known flocks. The judges were MajoJC Norman ...

... oung Farmers in Berks PEWSEY VALE Y.F.C. were recently invited to visit the Stype Estate, near Hungerford, Berks, built up from an original 550 acres into a total component of 3250 acres; of the whole, 1200 acres are now under cultivation or are being grazed. The additional land consisted of 60 derelict holdings, and the whole place was overrun by vermin. It was cleared of gorse, bramble and ...

... The report issued by the Parliamentary and Scientific Committee, notes on which appear elsewhere in this issue, takes an unusually broad and comprehensive view of the needs of British agriculture. Its insistence on the fact that we should take care to foster the production of those foods which can be obtained from elsewhere only with difficulty, etc., is plain sense, which everybody can ...

... THE recent debates, in both Houses, on India -were reported in part in the last issue of Sport and Country by our Parlia mentary Correspondent. There are great hopes that the agricultural problem, the essence of which is to meet the needs of the ever-growing population (the annual increase is about 5,000,000 per annum), will be imaginatively tackled by the two Govern ments. Pictures on this ...

... TNDIA Command's Military Farms Department claims to run the biggest dairy farm in the world. There is in Lahore one farm of 90.000 acres on which graze 10,000 buffaloes. On it stands the factory, which turns out 3000 tins of milk daily, most of which goes to British and native troops on the Burma front. The buffalo population of India (of which the M.F.D. controls only a fraction) consists of ...

... How PuDDies Change By A. Croxton Smith Any inexperienced person looking at the bull pups illustrated on this page to-day might be excused for question ing if they were pure bred, so different are they from the finished product of maturity. We are all familiar with the wonderful head so characteristic of the breed with its wide, flat skull, its deep chops, the nose receding almost between the ...

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