... OF the major British industries, farming is, perhaps, the most healthy and so the most likely to make an extra effort. The expansion called for is a 50 per cent, increase over pre-war, when there were nearly as many idle acres as productive ones, and 15 per cent, more than the war time peak of 1943/44, achieved under dire difficulties. r ne tana to-aay is m gooa neart proies- sional landowners ...

... /\NE of Earl St. Aldwyn's flock of Oxford Downs was sold for the top price of /150 at , where the same owner received the cup for the most successful exhibitor and also won the special prize presented by the President of the Oxford Down Sheep Breeders' Association, Mr. W. Trevethan, for the best single shearling or ram lamb. Up to 70 guineas was made by others of Earl St. Aldwyn's rams Messrs. ...

... Proof that great changes can be made in the actual shape, general confirmation, type and quality of farm livestock by feeding methods is given in these photographs. They are of the same four pigs bom on the same day from the strain of Uniform Large Whites at the Cambridge University Experimental Station. The four were killed on reaching the bacon weight of 200 lb. Had all been fed on the same ...

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... AS in former years, the attention of dairy farmers and breeders was largely focussed at the 1949 Dairy Show on the struggle between Ayrshires and Friesians for the supreme honours. Last year the black-and- white cattle won both the big individual and group events, and this year Ayrshire supporters hoped that they would see a reversal of the situation. Their hopes were half-realised, for ...

... 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 ...