... WINTER Sports in Switzerland are being held in normal conditions this season for the first time since 1938, and programmes of sporting events, including international competitions, have been arranged at all the main centres. The Cresta I Run and the Olympic Leap at St. Moritz are once again the great attractions they were before the war, and visitors from England, seeking relaxation from the ...

... WHEN the blaster, sand iron, dynamiter or sand-wedge first made its appear ance here about 1929, the first model I saw was an egg-shaped, wide-soled club with a concave face and thick top edge. Horton Smith brought it over, and in a friendly round with him on the old Birkdale course that same year I spent much time in sand bunkers and various other bad places trying it out. What impressed ...

... fll r lives on the 111! He always took his bread and spread, his bacon and egg, his boiled beef and carrots wholly for granted. Rationing well, that was something to do with war. Afterwards everything would be all right. But now he finds that everything is far from right with the farm of the world. The shortage of food has lifted his eyes from the shop counters where food just happened along, ...

... I! lll.UIJIlJI.il WAR90URS OF TAF WORLD mOilTREAL berth at one time. Lister Black6tone marine engines are depended upon for auxiliary and propulsion duties. ...

... By A. CROXTOlY SMITH SOMETHING akin to a feeling of nostalgia is conjured up by those magic words, Best in show. Memories of exciting days at Cruft's and the Kennel Club come back to mind when the challenge certificate winners of the previous day paraded in the big ring, watched by thousands of keen spectators from all parts of the world. At the Crutt s of 1939 I was introduced to a charm ...

... Two-and-a-half centuries ago, the prevailing westerly winds blowing across the dunes beside the River Findhorn, buried sixteen farms and the manor-house at Culbin, Moray. It was not until the end of the eighteenth century that attempts were made to deal with the sand, and in the ensuing fifty years the local landowners made progress with afforestation schemes, but most of the trees they ...

... National Institute of Agricultural i, ■■■■■in i, Engineering THE National Institute of Agricul tural Engineering is a most important department of the Ministry of Agriculture, and as mechanisation increases will become ever more vital to our agriculture, and also to the economic prosperity of the country as a whole, for we are now com peting, with success, for a major share in the world market ...

... Scotland's Mew Dairy Show SCOTLAND'S newly-instituted Dairy Show, held at the Kelvin Hall, Glasgow, was at once successful and disappointing. Its success was due in no small measure to the support given to it by the Duke of Montrose, and by the Lord Provost, Sir Hector McNeill. Its shortcomings were not charge able to the orvanisers a share of the resnonsihilitv must rest with Scottish ...

... THE Derby Luncheon at the London Press Club was held again on Monday, I for the first time since 1939. Lord Derby was unable to be present to reply to the toast To the Pious Memory of the Founder of the Derby Stakes, but his grandson, Lord Stanley, contributed in an amusing speech to the success of the occasion. Lord Stanley and Lord Derby's jockey, Harry Wragg, made little attempt to conceal ...

... 5USSEX HERD BOOK SOCIETY No Cattle are HARDIER sussex cow or more THRIFTY than the Farmer Stockbreeder Photograph SUSSEX Sussex Cattle by E. Walford Lloyd (10/6) tells you all about them BROADWAY EAST, DENHAM, near UXBRIDGE, MIDDLESEX ...

... By A. CROXTON-SMITH STALIN, whose picture appears on this page to-day, is claimed to be the only white Alsatian in Australia, and so in a way has a distinction that does not belong to the common run. He is owned by Mr. J. McCarthy, of Glebe in New South Wales, and is one of a Utter sired by a black-and-tan guard dog at an aerodrome. This colour, or rather absence of colour, would excite no ...

... By A. Croxton Smith WHEN Longfellow wrote that Things are not what they seem he was not thinking of dogs and horses and other animals that sometimes undergo singular metamorphoses at such times as they may be for sale or exhibition. His little moral commonplace may well be taken to heart by unknowledgeable folk who are undertaking transactions with people whose character is un known to them. ...