... A Hundred Per Cent Natsopa's Field Day at Peterborough MR. J. MATTHEWS, farm bailiff at the Natsopa Memorial Homes, Wellsboro', achieved the great distinction at Peter borough on October 12, of winning seven prizes with seven entries. These included some of the plums of the Show, including the Supreme Championship the seven lots sold later for 893 guineas. The Show and Sale, arranged by the ...

... cm, A Grave Set-back to Breeders of Stayers THE racing season was successfully concluded at Newmarket on Wed nesday the 20th, at which meeting Mrs. Hartigan's excellent grey colt, Efferves cence, won the Dewhurst Stakes and Mr. Allnatt's Shahpoor the Jockey Club Cup. The Cambridgeshire was won by Mr. L. Lipton's eight-year-old gelding, Quartier- Maître. Incidentally, while Quartier-Maitre was ...

... By Our Horticultural Correspondent ABOUT three months ago some hints were given in these columns on selecting fruit trees and they emphasised three important points: (1) The desirability of early ordering; (2) choosing trees of the shape best suited to their future surroundings; (3) correct interplanting of varieties to ensure cross-pollination. Some readers have no doubt already dis covered ...

... Cub- Hunting THE cub-hunting season has started, not so much to train cubs for the more serious work of the winter, as to reduce their predatory activities. The campaign against rabbits has diminished their numbers and en couraged foxes to visit farm buildings, so that vigorous cubbing is important. Here are pic tures of the opening day of the cubbing season. The Hertfordshire Fox hounds, with ...

... MESSRS. GOFF issued two catalogues for their Annual Sales at Ballsbridge, Dublin. Yearlings were numbered up to 271 lots horses in training, hunters, brood mares, foals and stallions, plus untried stock, numbered to 215 lots, a total of 486. The yearlings, 224 of which were sold, reached the astonishing total of 68,397 guineas, an average of 305^ guineas. By comparison, yearlings sold at ...

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... THE auctioneers, Messrs. John Thorn ton Hobson and Co., offered 69 freshly-calved or down-calving heifers and 16 young bulls. All were pedigree stock from the attested and agglutination-tested Minsted herd. Altogether, 71 lots were sold, at an average per head of ^300 a record average for the breed in this country- MINSTED EXQUISITE 12841 is a daughter of Auchenbrain Morning Glory. Her calf by ...

... THE Shorthorn Society's Show and Sale at Reading, which occupied two days, con cerned 57 cows and heifers and 136 bulls. There were 10 classes, including a special butter- fat class for pedigree bulls. The Thornton Challenge Cup for the best group of three bulls was won by Colonel W. C. Devereux, of Round Hill, Kimble, Aylesbury. Buyers included the King's agent, who paid 550 guineas for ...

... /\oJh£^l on Breeders Should Bestir Themselves MAJOR GERALD DEANE has recently made one or more of his not infre quent and pertinent incursions into print on the position of the bloodstock in dustry. It amounts to an attack on the Jockey Club's handling of the war time situation an attack to which the Stewards are unlikely to reply, at any rate in print. J. neir aitticulty, I imagine, is that ...

... DURING recent years stock-farming in Southern Rhodesia has made great progress and a large export beef trade has been built up by the cattle farmers. In the early days of the industry the African stockmen had to contend with epidemics of cattle sickness, most of them carried bv insects or by ticks. But recent research on the subject has enabled the agricultural departments to keep these pests ...

... THE preparation of agricultural lime has become a matter of the utmost importance in these days of increased crop production. A considerable proportion of the land ploughed up during the war is sour and requires the application of lime if satisfactory crops are to be grown. Fortunately, there is an unlimited supply of limestone chalk is a very pure form of lime stone and millions of tons are ...