... NOVEMBER 12, 1943 the Sutaiij cfUcss TriplcX FORTNIGHTLY ILLUSTRATED SPORTINC AND DRAMATIC NEWS SPOKfff, OQUNTKY ...

... A SPLENDID QUARTETTE Four of the herd's best milkers Minsted Buttercup, Minsted Brenda, Minsted Blunder and Minsted Beth. AUCHENBRAIN MORNING GLORY 38866, bred by Mr. D. Wallace and now one of the eight stock bulls at Rush Court. He was born on October 1, 1936, and has produced good stock, including Minsted Brown King. MINSTED BETH, one of the foundation cows, gave 800 gallons of milk, 3'94 ...

... THE vogue for high-priced dairy cattle continues. The recent sale, however, of a rising three-year-old Guernsey bull for 3400 guineas caused even the most hardened buyers to raise their eyebrows. The bull in question, Antonio 3rd of Toadsmoor 15558, was one' of twenty-four lots from Mr. Spanton's herd offered at one of Messrs. Thornton Hobson's recent sales at Reading. The buyer was Sir ...

... 8 y Our Horticultural Correspondent THE amateur gardener often finds con siderable difficulty in following written advice on pruning fruit trees. In the first place he may be unfamiliar with the meaning of certain technical terms which the writer is obliged to use and, secondly, he may possess trees of unorthodox shapes which can bear little comparison with those described in the text-books. ...

... Praise the Small Farmer A Small Family Builds Up a British Friesian Herd MUCH of the limelight of farming publicity goes to the big farms, with model buildings, the most up-to-date machinery, or famous herds of cattle. But half of the land under cultivation in the British Isles is farmed by men with less than a hundred acres. Theirs is the unending daily routine of growing crops and attending ...

... A CENTURY and a half ago the woods of England were stripped of their oaks, cut to build ships to beat off the threatened Napoleonic invasion. But Englishmen knew that there would be other wars, and here and there acorns were planted and the young trees guarded till they could fend for themselves. To-day many of these oaks are being felled, and this is the story of one of them and of an East ...

... Watf rcress Farm I Gro^v een Again Comes True IN July 1939 Mr. and Mrs. Maxwell went to live a 01: Alresford House, Alresford, Hampshire, given b tin nation to Lord Rodney some 160 years ago. It is a It \'eh country of water meadows and trout streams, for her the River Aire begginnith of a great numbre o' fa: Sylver Springes which resorting to a botom make a rea brode lak communely caullid ...

... IT was in 1936, about mid-way through our busy professional golfing programme, that I decided I would give up trying to putt with one particular system and just hit the ball towards the hole and leave it at that. Ever since I began to try to score for a living, it was very clear to me that getting the ball into the hole was the part of the game that counted most, although it was equally clear ...

... IN line with the modem custom of of teaching young people the responsibilities of citizenship, the Rural District Council of Buckingham are co-operating with the local schools in a practical way. They invite schoolchildren (in this case from Buckingham Senior Mixed School) to attend their meetings, and encourage them to form their own Rural District Councils. The children went recently to a ...

... w r- u mi Ascot Was a Su ccess THE first wartime Ascot vas for many a glorious dr. y, a x course, some good racing ai. the and Queen present to signi thiii proval. Soldiers, sailors, rmei wounded men from hospita hat I day out, together with thousand civilian war workers. The a tual r was of no great importanc but was, was the relaxation in ie frtt that the day brought to so i .any pe Rapier's ...

... f s;' PRETin^LAIX^^ To me and please dorit think me vain- 'Utility sounded pretty Plain But there's no reason for self-pity This ' is just plain Pretty ...

... 'Ill Shows and Sales of Three Famous Breeds of Cattle II A/rshires at Reading OUR photographers are still being kept busy with the big spring cattle shows and sales, three more of which we illustrate in the present issue. On suc ceeding pages are pictures of Jersey cattle at Reading and Devon bulls at Exeter. The Ayrshires featured (ex clusively) on this page were shown at the Ayrshire Cattle ...