... THE Society's Spring Show and Sale at Chelmsford pro duced some excellent pigs and high subse quent prices. Messrs. John Thornton, Hob- son and Co., who con ducted the sale, dis posed of no lots at an average of £27 16s. 3d. Twenty boars aver aged £39 4s. 4d., and fifty-four gilts, far rowed in 1 94 1, aver aged £31 8s. 5d. Top price was fetched at 90 guineas by Messrs. W. Dennis and Sons' ...

... a/iitf T^crwn IT now seems very likely that we and our Allies-- the United Nations as we pro claim ourselves-- cannot lose this war, and with it all that makes life worth living, except through our own fault or their own fault; our own failure to use our combined strength, overwhelming strength when fully mobilised, and to organise and use the multiplying opportunities which as the months ...

... By Mrs. N. Fielding-Johnson APART from the many thousands of women working as employees on the farms there is a growing number of women who are becoming farmers in their own right. Last February we asked Mrs. Donaldson to describe how she turned to the land in the early days of the war and, after a period of training at the Moulton Institute, bought a farm of which she is now the active head. ...

... ■■-JT I FOUND it tantalising the other day to look down the theatre list and read of Mr. Tom Walls starring in one play and Mr. Ralph Lynn starring in another. Whenever are these two first-rate farce-comedians going to get together again and revive memories of that fine team of the old days at the Aldwych Theatre? 3For team-work in the theatre is vastly important, and to-day, although it is ...

... By Harry Lamb THERE was a time when ploughmen in Cumberland would walk miles on a Sunday to see each other's ploughing. That was forty years ago or more, when there was nothing but swing ploughs and when ploughing was a real art. Most of us who graduated in that school thought the introduction of the wheel plough had killed all interest in the craft, but the revival of competitions in the ...

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... Going to smash his dreams, Dad He goes a bit dreamy sometimes, doesn't he But the boy's clever enough you reckon there's something behind those dreams he'll get on all right. And you're quite ready to scrimp and save to see him through. How does a lad of his age get on under a Nazi army of occupation Not too well, they tell us fair game for any bit of bullying and brutality, if no worse. Let's ...

... By L. F. Newman, M.A. In our last issue we presented Mr. Newman's lucid examination of the Four Course System the backbone of English farming economics. The keeping of stock an essential part of the system is discussed in the present article, with emphasis on the fattening and the technical points of meat production. THE classical method of English agri culture practice is to produce beef from ...

... Twenty-first Annual Irish Kennel Club Championship Show- in Dublin Mrs. Lignell with her miniature black -and tan Maggie McGee the only dog of its breed exhibited. Mrs. Lignell is wife of Mr. S. R. Lignell, the well- known golfer, of Kensaley, Malahide, County Dublin. Miss Audrey Ladley of the Cottage, Portmarnock. County Dublin) brushing up her Old English Sheep dog Magpie at the Coming-of ...

... JACK OLDING S IACK OLDING if! HATFIELD HERTS Telephone: Hatfield 2333 Telefroms Tractors. Hatfield CATERPILLAR PAY TRIBUTE IN THIS SERIES OF ADVERTISEMENT S TO THE WOMEN OF BRITAIN WORKING ON THE LAND So I've never done a good day's work, eh? I may look as though I haven't but would you call ploughing seven acres a good day's work? That's what I've done to-day. With horses? Yes, twenty-five ...

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