... THE SEASON OF STOCK SHOWS AND SALES Romney Marsh Sheep WITH the great increase in our arable acreage comes a new demand for sheep, so all important in balanced farming. At Maidstone's famous Michaelmas store stock sale, 11,000 head of sheep were sold, and 65 guineas was paid for the Champion Romney Marsh shorn yearling ram. It has been said that Romney Marsh sheep will thrive where others will ...

... THE hobnails in Army boots have made deep inroads in the stone staircases and corri dors of private houses which have been taken over by the military, but those same hobnail boots have been doing great work in many derelict country-house gardens. Indeed, in some the appreciation outside might well offset the unavoidable depreciation to the house. These pictures show the transformation to the ...

... The Little Foxes (Piccadilly) LET no diligent reader of The Illustrated sporting and Dramatic News be intrigued by the title of the above play into imagining that it has anything whatever to do with fox-hunting. The reason for such a title is the quotation-- Take us the foxes, the little foxes that spoil the vines. There is but a single mention of sport of any kind, and that is when one ...

... THE English Jersey Cattle Society held a most successful Show and Sale at Reading, in more ways than one. Members of the Society, backed by the Council, secretary and the auctioneers (John Thornton, Hobson and Co.), made a gift of eighteen calves, which realised £1300 for the benefit of the Red Cross Agriculture Fund. The occasion was thus stimulated and enlivened, and brisk business followed ...

... THE Research Station at Long Ashton, Bristol (University of Bristol, Department of Agricul ture and Horticulture), has made a special study of the utilisation of surplus fruit crops. Under the direction of Mr. Vernon L. S. Charley, who is in charge of the Fruit and Vegetable Products Section, methods have been evolved which will safeguard apple crops by turning the surplus into apple ...

... ^tL avicf Msotvri Ute- THE story recently published in a daily newspaper to the effect that a dandelion now being grown in Kew Gardens may help to solve the problem of Britain's rubber shortage, suggests that British scientists have only recently approached the problem. The fact is that research at Kew has reached a rather more advanced stage. Experimental plots containing varieties of the ...

... By Our Flying Correspondent ONE of the saddest things about the extensive work now being done on creating new aerodromes is that it almost invariably entails the destruction of large numbers of trees. Trees are, to some extent and regarded from the narrowest point of view, the enemy of the aviator. Not only must they be cleared from the landing area itself, but they must be cleared from the ...

... Fruit-T rees The Sort to Buy and How to Plant Them By Our Horticultural Correspondent IF I were asked to name a particular branch of horticulture in which the novice is liable to make the biggest mistakes, 1 should suggest that it is in the choice and planting of new fruit-trees. It may be that vegetable- growing presents equally puzzling problems, but here there is ample opportunity for ...

... SIXTEEN distinguished architects have just produced pi a new City of London. The new London of their drc undoubtedly very beautiful. To what extent it could be 1 into the pattern of post-war conditions is debatable.- The of to-day is unfettered by considerations of costs or of c interests the builder of to-morrow may not enjoy such f r 3 Max Holier has sketched at our request a design for a ...

... JUST over a year before the war, an old golfing friend of mine passed away; a keen golfer, around scratch, he was for over thirty years a real student of the game, for in his library were many golf books of all periods. Knowing of our friendship, his family sent me along quite a collection of these books, which I treasure. He was one of those people who not only read books but who study them ...

... In the summer we published an article on how a great commercial carnation grower had turned his houses and land over to tomatoes with success. Here is the story of another carnation specialist who took over a derelict holding for tomatoes with equal success. AN old tumbledown house, un occupied for years, no doors or windows, on the road side one mile out of Whitchurch, Salop, on the main ...

... By A. Croxton Smith OF all the plaguey little creatures that vex in this temperate climate of ours, the rat is the most obnoxious. It is a disgusting parasite, without a friend in the world, and the cost of harbouring it is incalculable, yet we go on affording it hospitality without making any great national effort to exterminate it. It is obvious that nothing but united determination can rid ...