... Suffo/ks at Ipswich Features of the Ipswich Spring Stallion Show, held by the Suffolk Agricul tural Association, were the heavy entries in the junior classes and the all-round strength of exhibits from East Anglian studs. A qualification to this is that Sir Hanson Rowbotham 's important stud-farm at Brooke, Isle of Wight, pro vided the winners of the two junior classes and the junior supreme ...

... THERE are a great number of different-- and specialist-- jobs on the farm. Indeed, no other occupation can show so many diverse interests and activities as the ordinary arable or mixed farm. Some agricultural duties are very strenuous and re quire such heavy muscular effort that they are much too exacting for women, but the care of stock is a branch of farming admirably adapted for animal ...

... By Our Horticultural Correspondent A FORTNIGHT ago I referred to the comparatively simple task of outdoor vegetable cultivation, but on reflec tion I must confess that this was perhaps an ill-chosen phrase. In contrast with green house work, vegetable production under natural conditions is a more straightforward business, but, as many a wartime cultivator has discovered, there are many ...

... J^cchicA- ow The Re-institution of the Coronation Cup IT is surprising that so little attention has been drawn to the reinstitution by the Stewards of the Coronation Cup. Conditions of the race have not yet been published, but it is to be run at Newmarket on Oaks Day, June 18, and is to be an open event. Having been given this importance, it may be assumed that the stake will be a relatively ...

... By D. H. Watson-Wood FROM many points of view, this year's coursing classic will go down as one of the most memorable. First came Swinging Light's essay to equal Fullerton's record of three successive outright wins. The draw held on the eve of the event con tributed to render the atmosphere as tense as I remember, the three best backed grey hounds-- Swinging Light, Jealous Retort and Dew ...

... On Seeds and I Seedlings By Our Horticultural Correspondent ALTHOUGH Nature is capricious and appears at times to deal harshly with outdoor food crops, she usually contrives to balance things up so that the gardener who is reasonably efficient has more successes than failures. But in greenhouse gardening, where growing conditions are artificially created and controlled, success depends on the ...

... By Brigadier R. S. Scott, C.I.E. THE advance of mechanisation has resulted in a very great decrease in the number of horses and mules em ployed in Army formations, but in the Mountain Artillery, the mule, immortalised by Rudyard Kipling, still carries the screw- guns, as well as the equipment and ammunition necessary for the front line. No internal-combustion engine as yet devised can replace ...

... THE Perth Spring Shows and Sales of Shorthorns and Aberdeen-Angus respectively produced some splendid cattle, for which exceptionally high prices and averages were realised. There was keen com petition from abroad, in spite of shipping difficulties but in the main English and Scottish breeders managed to keep the best stuff at home. Successful exhibitors in either case replaced the supreme ...

... By A. Croxton Smith THAT wise old sportsman, General W. N. Hutchinson, lived a hundred years ago in a day when men depended more upon their own exertions for breaking their gundogs, as the art was then called. Most of the moderns prefer to use the word training, which is really more expressive. Our grandfathers wanted to break them of their faults we desire to teach them. Those were the ...

... WAIFS STRAYS WAIFS STRAYS SOCIETY JOEL STREET, PINNER, MIDDX. Bankers: Barclays, Ltd. We are handing on an extraordinarily difficult world to the next generation, and we owe it to the children to think of their welfare, and certainly the homeless children. It is for such children we plead Gifts however small gratefully received. CHURCH OF ENGLAND ...

... MARCH 19, 1943 Triple the safety glass fortnightly V fa ILLUSTRATED SPORTING DRAMATIC NEWS ftPORT IlCOUNTRY ...

... THE Spring Show and Sale of at tracted a very good crowd and some fine animals changed hands, although a proportion was for show only. Averages were excellent. Ten three-year-old stallions averaged £108 eleven four-year-olds averaged £126, and eleven two year olds averaged £135 16s. Entries for yearling, two- and three-year-old fillies were small, but they all sold. Five yearling and two-year ...