... 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 ...

... I LLUSTRATED SPORTING DRAMATIC NEWS 1PORT&COUNTRY 'march 5, 1943 TripleX the safety glass fortnightly ...

... ancf 2-^crii/n. THERE has come to this office a number of pictures of last week's Gift Sale at Sevenoaks, organised in aid of the Red Cross Agriculture Fund. By the same post arrived a picture of a Red Cross ship leaving a British port and bearing its precious cargo of comforts for Prisoners of War, of whom 4,000 came from the fair land of Kent. Alt honour goes to tne people wno slave, weeKs ...

... Aberdeen -Angus Show at Banbury A GREAT fillip was given to English breeders at the 41st Annual Spring Show and Sale of the English Association at Banbury, when breeders in search of herd sires looked to their co-breeders south of the Border to fill the gaps. An exceptionally large entry was catalogued, that of both females and bulls being considerably in excess of the entry of a year previous ...

... THIS year, if the war had not upset everything, the U.S. Ryder Cup team would have been visiting us again, and we would have been playing our Open Championship at Carnoustie once more. Although it looks almost certain there will be no match for the second time during the war, the U.S.P.G.A. have paid the memory of Mr. Samuel Ryder, donor of the trophy and a great supporter of British golf, the ...

... lersey Cattle at Reading BREEDERS of Jersey stock had a great day at Reading on Feb. 18, when the auctioneers, Messrs. Thornton, Hobson and Co., found a group of purchasers willing to give good prices for attractive animals. The occupation of the Channel Islands has made the position of the native herds doubtful and given prominence to the English Jersey Cattle Society and its high-class stock ...

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... /A^S throughout all ages have had a potent influence on fashion to-day, as in the past, simplicity is regarded with the greatest favour.- Peter Robinson, Oxford Street, have assembled in their salons-a collection of austerity wedding fashions, among them being the dress pictured above. It is carried out in white moss crSpe, the crossover bodice and modified housemaid's skirt being a becoming ...

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... Playbill Looks at the $11111 The Carl Rosa Opera Season THE most significant feature of wartime entertainment in London has surely been the fantastic success of the season of opera just given at the Winter Garden by the Carl Rosa Company. The Winter Gar den is a large theatre, and on every occasion it has been filled to capacity; from many performances, notably those of La Bohéme and ...