... let ^/^ccclua^ 1942 Bloodstock Sales Total Nearly £500,000 THERE were a lot of jumping folk at last week's December Sales, and I felt rather sorry for them. The few horses they bought did not amount to much and I think that most of them had come just to talk racing and to see some good horses. The decision to stop National Hunt racing this season has been most unfortunate and has hit a ...

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... Coursing at Druids Lodge Waterloo Cup Probables By D. H. Watson-Wood THE meeting of the South of England Club at Druids Lodge last week furnished the most brilliant trials ever enjoyed over Mr. James V. Rank's ideal running ground. As this is likely to be the only big meeting in the South this season, it was hardly sur prising that the entry reached record dimen sions, the inclusion of two ...

... THE Bargower Herd, founded over 40 years ago by the late Mr. John N. Drummond, is famous all over Scotland and has an outstanding record of successes at the London Dairy Shows as well as the Highland and the Royal Shows. Scots bidders, however, found at the Annual Sale at Bargower that the plum of the Sale ring, the December bull, Bargower Reappearance, was being taken away from them by a very ...

... J There'll be no more Fortune Chocolates until after the war as Caley's have put all their chocolate into service dress Norwich Plain Chocolate, in blocks 2d. ...

... By A. Croxton Smith DOGS and the land seem to have a natural affinity, the run of a country estate or farm being ideal for the develop ment of puppies and the welfare of adults. The impulse for the first dog show that ever was came from sporting men, this historic event at Newcastle-on-Tyne having been staged for the benefit of pointers and setters. The founder of the Kennel Club in 1873, Mr. ...

... AT Allington Park, Maidstone, the Kent Womer s Land Army, by competitions and displays, go e some idea of the magnitude and variety of t ie 1 national work on which it is engaged, nvery puasc modern farming was covered and the big programme ot events was made possible by the kindness of Mr. W. Edmonds and Mr. H. T. Edmonds, who placed th i. entire farm and farm buildings at the disposal ot i ...

... King Henry IV, Part 2 (Westminster) MR. ROBERT ATKINS is doing a really grand job with his Shake spearean revivals at the Westminster, and it is good to see them so well supported, particularly by the Forces (including the Americans) who are crowding the comfort able Westminster Theatre. He has followed the First Part of King Henry IV by the Second a fine play seen all too rarely. It is ...

... cmcfT^own OUR recent guest, Mrs. Eleanor Roose velt, has had some very kind things to say about the work of the Women's Land Army. Women of Britain's Land Army, she says, do anything that needs to be done on the farm. And so on. More interesting still was her observation that almost unanimously they told me they hoped they would always be able to go on with the work, presumably after the ...

... THE remarkable utility of the Fordson tractor under vari ous conditions is generally well known. It performs a great number of operations, hauling all types of implements on the farms, or trailers on the road, and as a stationary power-plant does a variety of jobs, such as wood-sawing, threshing, grind ing-mill operation, etc. Its use under forestry con ditions is not so well known, but since ...

... Forestry in War and Peace ParGi By W. L. Taylor One of H. M. Forestry Commissioners Mr. Taylor s first article appeared in The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News of November 27th. The pictures illustrating it and the present article were taken in the New Forest area in late October, when the Forest was^visited by representatives of the Allied Governments THE job of planting 1,770,000 ...

... THE recent inter-Services Rugby match, Army v. R.A.F., drew the largest crowd of the season to Richmond, where the Army, playing twelve Internationals, beat the R.A.F., with ten Internationals, by 18 points to nil. But the score by no means reflects the run of the game. After holding the Army's lead to a penalty goal for the first twenty minutes, during which time their forwards, with Corporal ...