... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... amcf M-Xtyn tJte/ai£c( THREE organisations for the voluntary collection of the 1943 harvest appear to be working already at full speed. These are the Voluntary Landworkers (for adults) and the two organisations affecting schoolchildren. These last two affect (a) the secondary schools and the public schools, and (b) the elementary schools. The schools as a whole, last year, formed 650 camps and ...

... Wanderers v. Keyham Crack R.N. XV. Win by 12 Pts. to 3 MAJOR G. WARDEN, one of Rugby football's most sage and popular referees, and secretary of Eastern Counties Rugby Union before important military advisory duties took Up most of his time, has started a scheme whereby American and other Allied officers in this country are invited as guests of sports organisations. Major Warden's concern is ...

... Inter- Varsity Sports OXFORD, by beating Cambridge 61 points to 47, has now squared its wartime athletics ac count. Each University- has now won twice, on each occasion on its own ground. The match illus trated was held on the Iffley Road ground, Ox ford. The Dark Blues won 8 events against 4. THE TWO TEAMS. In the centre of the front row are the two Presidents, G. W. Sears Cambridge and W. S. ...

... By A. Croxton Smith AS the Great War of 1914-18 was drawing to its close, I was asked to write an article dis cussing the effect it was likely to have upon the future of field sports, and with this text in mind I sought the views of friends who were most qualified to express opinions worth hearing. Hunting, shooting, and coursing all came under review. Most of them expected radical changes, a ...

... 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 ...