... MR. SIDNEY BUTLER has specialised in producing miniature editions of several well-known vaiieties of fowls. Bantams have been bred for a great many years but are more popular on the Continent and in the far East than in Britain. Mr. Butler is an enthusiast and has won many prizes with his birds at shows. In 1939 he had entries in four classes in the Inter national show, Antwerp, and took four ...

... LORD WOOLTON'S recent appeal has stressed the vital im portance of carrots, cabbage and potato as nutritious and sustaining forms of food which are in abundant supply. The following recipes, which are cheap, and exceedingly easy to make, should appeal to every housewife thioughout the country. They are the creation of Maitre Chef Casado, famous head chef of the May Fair Hotel, London, and have ...

... Fashions for the Spring BOLD CHECKS T70R many weeks women have been considering the best and most economical manner in which to lay out their coupons. They will be able to reap a rich harvest in the salons of Jays, Regent Street, who take the credit of the tailored suit above. It is made of Scotch Saxony, the coat having practical pockets and the skirt two pleats in front. There is an infinite ...

... 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 ...