... The Nation's need is milk and BRITISH FRIESIANS can fulfil that need V --''J Manningford Faith Jan Graceful has just completed four consecutive lactations over j,ooo gall. each. and YOU can increase YOUR Milk Cheque by breeding animals of the breed that is over 100 gallons ahead. 33 Chancery Lane London W.C.2 ...

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... 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 ...

... THE Daily Sketch £1,000 draw for partners 72-hole, 4-ball medal tournament at the Fulwell Golf Club, Middlesex, was won by R. A. Whitcombe and his Scottish partner, W. Anderson, with 270 strokes. My partner, long Joe Baker, now assistant to Jock McLean at Worthing (he was five pre-war years in Bucharest, Rumania, as professional), and I finished second, two strokes behind. Whitcombe and ...

... From Our Parliamentary Correspondent AS briefly reported in our last issue, Mr. Tom Williams, the Minister of Agriculture, is considering the question of allowing farmers to appeal against decisions to dis possess them of their lands and farms. The emergency powers which sanction dis possession remain in force and the emergency --desperate need for full production, which called them into being ...

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... Vitabuoy Reed. Trade Mark And thi man is still alive I Most Naval inen choose the itabuoy because its buoyancy might be invaluable in emergency. Paymaster Lieutenant R.N., found its fire-resisting properties almost as valuable. After a long spell on the bridge, he lay down on the chart-house floor. Sud denly he woke. There was the dickens of a bang and a shower of sparks. The pistol ...

... Oeiier 0 I H T F An -fc- The Caterpillar ^farmer's is the ideal ^horsepower 25-8 Tractor. Drawbar horseP^ An lt. I, my Caterpillar and I am going to way5 we'U take in our A.nv task that c quicker and :ts ^-mhodofdomg Ur than an, other. fuss or bother. We'll We'U go about ou ield) improve quality speed up production) step P Ught In an, are masters of the s.tuauom heavy CaterP''fin our work ...

... jVyf ANY farmers have been called upon by their War Agricultural Commit tees to grow some acres of potatoes. They are faced with the problem of getting the seed in with very little labour; thus the dif ferent potato-planting machines shown at Witley Park were a great attraction. HOME-MADE This is very much a wartime weapon. The idea was sent by Mr. Bomford to the Institute of Agricultural ...

... tyfr. cmdf Lsoum tfck./a*tc( THE conscription of German children of 10 years and upwards for work on the land was announced by the B.B.C. with that little air of smugness which that organisation seems incapable of keeping out of its broadcasts. The announcement, as a news item, would have been better justified had it been explained what a serious sacrifice was being made by the German people ...