... Engl ish Angus ENGLISH ABERDEEN-ANGUS Cattle Asso ciation held its 40th Annual Spring Show and Sale at Banburv. The suDreme Chamoion a December, 1 94°- hull realised 150 guineas. The 64 bulls averaged ^45 16s. id. The prices followed on 1150 gns. for an Angus bull at Perth, with an average for 291 bulls of ^76 4s. 4d. (compared with ^61 3s. 7d. in 1941). CLAVERDON TRIO Wizard with his smiling ...

... AT Black Corner, in Crawley Woods, Claude Goodchild and his brother run the largest rabbit-farm in England, some 3000 being housed at present in their exten sive rabbitries. Prior to the war, they had mastered the trade of designing and manu facturing furriers-- in fact; furs were the chief asset at the Rabbitry. Beautiful rabbit coats, costing up to 40 guineas, fur gloves and 200 pairs of ...

... FASHIONS WITH A FUTURE HATS OF FELT AND FABRIC CHEERFUL VILLAGE COLOURS IT is Harris tweed which has been chosen by Marshall and Snelgrove, Oxford Street, for the tailored suit above. Spring tweeds follow the trend of English village colours vivid purples and pinks, linden green, mill-pond blue and coppery browns. There are checks and herringbones too. It seems almost unnecessary to add that ...

... Jam To-day (St. Martin's) IT has long been a theatrical tradition-- though I can think of no instance of its being fulfilled-- that it is the ambition of every comedian to play Hamlet. I find even more formidable the ambition of Hamlet to play the comedian. This actually has, in a sense, been fulfilled in Iam to-day, described as a light comedy, the chief part in which is undertaken by ...

... HOW refreshing it is to get letters from golfers all over the country who in their spare time can still get their minds off the great tragedy being enacted all around us, and think for an hour or two of something as clean and healthy as golf. A service friend of mine recently went to Malta, and being crazy on golf and hearing about a golf course there, decided to take his clubs with him, ...

... OUR pictures illustrate a section of the work being done by land girls in Oxfordshire. Since they were taken, W.L.A. gangs have been concentrating on threshing. Bush-pulling, however, is a part of the long-term policy which is essential if new acres are to be cul tivated for the 1942-3 crops, and we have endeavoured to show what has been accomplished already with almost raw material. The ...

... The weather is the farmer's and gardener's greatest profit maker if he can predict it with success. If he cannot, then it can ruin him and lose the country thousands of tons of food. The Air Ministry weather forecast was free to all. With the War we are thrown back on our own resources when we had almost forgotten how to judge the weather for ourselves. A barometer to-day is as necessary ...

... awcf ALL the critics seem satisfied with the recent British raid in the Havre area. It was, of course, a fine piece of work technically, but its great value-- at any rate in this country-- was psychological. Some thing positive had been done. It is this positive policy which the masses are so anxious to see in our Government councils, and it is a pleasure to put on record that, at any rate, ...

... MISS ANNE TAYLOR, for merly a member of the Ballet Joos, was going with the company to America when the war broke out. She decided, however, that there was more important work to be done, and joined the W.L.A. Posted to Mr. J. Allen's farm, South Tre- viddo, near Lis- keard in Cornwall, Miss Taylor quick ly became accus tomed to country life. South Tre- viddo is mainly a dairy farm, but the ...

... The Answer to Goebbels Keep Sport Going THAT part of the debate in the House on Wednesday, February 25, relating to sport was so seriously misquoted in several journals that I for one am grateful to the Daily Telegraph of the following day for putting the matter right. This is how their reporter explained the statement: Cheers stopped Sir Stafford in the middle of a sentence in which he said ...

... By A. Croxton Smith ARE show dogs delicate? Perhaps this may seem to be a foolish question to ask when the only fair answer that can be given has to be hedged about by qualifications and interlarded with ifs and buts. The most one can say is that some are and some are not, a reply that would apply equally to working dogs or mongrels. When canine hysteria began to run through the country, a few ...

... Agriculture's General Staff Who They Are and Why THE Ministry of Agriculture has been for some time engaged in forming and completing what is in effect a General Staff, although, with appropriate modesty, it has preferred to style the members of the staff as its Liaison Officers. Agriculture, happily, has not felt itseli obliged to prop itself up with anything so grand as a Brains Trust. There ...