... A SPLENDID QUARTETTE Four of the herd's best milkers Minsted Buttercup, Minsted Brenda, Minsted Blunder and Minsted Beth. AUCHENBRAIN MORNING GLORY 38866, bred by Mr. D. Wallace and now one of the eight stock bulls at Rush Court. He was born on October 1, 1936, and has produced good stock, including Minsted Brown King. MINSTED BETH, one of the foundation cows, gave 800 gallons of milk, 3'94 ...

... THE vogue for high-priced dairy cattle continues. The recent sale, however, of a rising three-year-old Guernsey bull for 3400 guineas caused even the most hardened buyers to raise their eyebrows. The bull in question, Antonio 3rd of Toadsmoor 15558, was one' of twenty-four lots from Mr. Spanton's herd offered at one of Messrs. Thornton Hobson's recent sales at Reading. The buyer was Sir ...

... 8 y Our Horticultural Correspondent THE amateur gardener often finds con siderable difficulty in following written advice on pruning fruit trees. In the first place he may be unfamiliar with the meaning of certain technical terms which the writer is obliged to use and, secondly, he may possess trees of unorthodox shapes which can bear little comparison with those described in the text-books. ...

... yCMVUt, Jofcig, E33IH umm IBS j Tone the delicate skin-tissues of your face and hands with I and you will have a sure beauty defence against the aggressions i of bitter winds and cold, wintry snaps. makes and keeps the skin delightfully smooth, prevents roughness, redness and chaps, and adds immeasurably to your beauty, charm and comfort. A.R.P. Wardens women on munitions and other war ...

... Mr. Arthur Sainsbury's William of Valence BRED in France by Captain J. D. Cohn, William of Valence is a half-brother to the 2000-Guineas winner, Le Ksar, and to the Cesarewitch winner, Cantatrice II. The winner of four races in France, he was raced in this country for two seasons and won the Chesterfield Cup (£1385), the Rosebery Stakes (£1240), the City and Suburban Handicap (^1788), and ...

... Miss Paget's chance in the Red Cross 'Chase- Irish hopes of Royal Danieli Cheltenham to stage Season's Chief Hurdling Event Australian Champion dead News of Windsor Lad RACING owners who have been counting their blessings one by one are now working them out in decimal points. The loss of a number of days of racing in an ordinary National Hunt Season amounts to very little; but a loss in these ...

... Round the Ring The Astonishing Tarleton Roderick Getting Fit Wembley permitted 9,000 By B. Bennison ERNIE RODERICK, our welter-weight champion, is back in the gymnasium, the better for a rest, much needed, after his defeat by Arthur Danahar. He is helping Nel Tarleton prepare for a fight with Johnny Cusick, of Manchester, holder of the feather weight title, at Liverpool on February I. As an ...

... The Bare Idea (Comedy, 6.45 and 9.15) AS my taxi sped through the inky blackness of a bitterly cold night last week to the Comedy Theatre to see a play about nudism I prayed, for the sake of the cast, that the theatre would be adequately heated. I need not have worried. The heating of the place was quite satisfactory--and that was almost the only thing about the evening which was ...

... Praise the Small Farmer A Small Family Builds Up a British Friesian Herd MUCH of the limelight of farming publicity goes to the big farms, with model buildings, the most up-to-date machinery, or famous herds of cattle. But half of the land under cultivation in the British Isles is farmed by men with less than a hundred acres. Theirs is the unending daily routine of growing crops and attending ...

... A CENTURY and a half ago the woods of England were stripped of their oaks, cut to build ships to beat off the threatened Napoleonic invasion. But Englishmen knew that there would be other wars, and here and there acorns were planted and the young trees guarded till they could fend for themselves. To-day many of these oaks are being felled, and this is the story of one of them and of an East ...

... Watf rcress Farm I Gro^v een Again Comes True IN July 1939 Mr. and Mrs. Maxwell went to live a 01: Alresford House, Alresford, Hampshire, given b tin nation to Lord Rodney some 160 years ago. It is a It \'eh country of water meadows and trout streams, for her the River Aire begginnith of a great numbre o' fa: Sylver Springes which resorting to a botom make a rea brode lak communely caullid ...

... IT was in 1936, about mid-way through our busy professional golfing programme, that I decided I would give up trying to putt with one particular system and just hit the ball towards the hole and leave it at that. Ever since I began to try to score for a living, it was very clear to me that getting the ball into the hole was the part of the game that counted most, although it was equally clear ...