... ALTHOUGH the Shropshire is an important sheep in the western counties, it is not as generally well known as the high quality of the breed warrants. There are a number of first-class flocks distributed over this country, but it is as an export type that the Shropshire is best known. The breed is very popular in the United States, where there are a great number of pedigree flocks as well as ...

... A CONTEMPORARY publishes some astonishing figures illustrating the development of artificial insemination in Russia. In 1940, it is alleged, 1,950,000 cows, 15,180,000 ewes and 447,000 mares were fertilised in this manner. If to achieve this 3,000,000 cows and 21,000,000 ewes (we will throw in the brood mares) were inseminated, the resources of our great ally in skilled man power become even ...

... B7977C>2 fou get MORE from EVERY ACRE by using 4ARVESAN DRESSED SEED Last season's crops showed time and time again that Harvesan dressed seed produced extra sacks to the acre. Harvesan is the seed dressing which gives lib tin 2/6 71b. tin 15/3 1 41b. tin 28 561b. drum 102/8 seed gram an earlv start, promotes strong root growth and 1 1 ,w orf 1121b. drum 196/- fy* 86 SOLD AND STORED prevents ...

... MASSEY HARRIS LTD. MASSEY- HARRIS LTD. £D BLACKSTONE CO. LTD. Offices MASSEY HOUSE, BROOKLANDS ROAD, SALE, MANCHESTER Guinness for strength FastworkinaTools Ski BY APPOINTMENT TO' iE£ByGS3L^ni A j a F I I llMliBT (IIIMIIIIM llHIli III I 1^ Blgfl i- lr t: m si ^B^9 jtfii ■'jTWL-- SEASONAL MACHINES INCLUDE Tractors: Model 203, 102 Junior, Standard and Rowcrop, 102 Senior Standard; No. 26, 2, 3 ...

... QUITE naturally, it is the women in corduroys and green jumpers who figure most in the land news these days. But there is another Land Army made up of wives and daughters of permanent land workers. Here are Mrs. Birkenshaw and Mrs. Collis, mother and daughter, not in uniform, because they were land u workers before the war, and so are not eligible for the W.L.A. With their dogs Duke and ...

... THE annual spring show and sale of pedigree Sussex bulls was held at Haywards Heath on March 5. The entries numbered forty-five, but only one bull was included in the class for animals born before December 1, 1941. With two or three exceptions, the prices realised were not high. It is possible that this was partly due to the war change from grass to arable in the districts where the Sussex is ...

... IT is not easy to buy the best Percheron stallions at any time and at present there is something bordering on a shortage of them. The British Percheron Horse Society, with its admirably arranged series of shows and sales, is enabling breeders to keep the flow of horses moving steadily and is, in fact, able to record a gratifying increase in the number of registrations. Even so, breeders are so ...

... cmcf. 7^e./aftc( IT is probably the fact that two-thirds of the farmers in the occupied countries are not only working under extreme stress but are receiving little more than a bare subsistence for themselves and their families. Here in England farmers are working under stress-- shortage of labour, shortage of machinery and parts, shortage of fertilisers, and so on. The only glut is of forms ...

... DURING the present century, and par ticularly under recent war conditions, the uses of tractors on farms have been very much extended and in some cases, carried to extremes. Mechanised agriculture has made rapid strides, and enthusiastic farmers have endeavoured to run farms, especially where the fields are of considerable size, entirely by tractor work. But thev have found manv diffi culties ...

... By Our Flying Correspondent TECHNICALLY the future for the private flyer in peace time has never looked brighter; organisationally (if I may use that clumsy word) it looks much less bright. And a real effort will be required if we are to give private flying enough freedom after the war to make it attractive. Designers have now amassed so much experience of all types of aircraft that there is ...

... By Our Horticultural Correspondent AT this time it is easier, and probably more profitable, to turn the garden over in the mind than with the spade. We have had over-much heavy rain and those who heeded the oft-repeated advice to get on with the digging last autumn will have all the advantage. Those who were unable to do so, will do well to postpone digging until the soil no longer sticks to ...

... IN the planning that is now going on for the future, sport has not been forgotten, and a new fellowship has been inaugurated. It is the , with the aim and object to encourage and strengthen inter national friendship and goodwill among friendly pations through the medium of sport, irrespective of class and creed. We cannot pretend that international sporting contests in the past have always ...