... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... Dublin Bull Shows High Prices for Shorthorns THREE hundred and eighty Shorthorns faced the judges -at the annual Royal Dublin Society's Bull Show this year. The champion bull was Prumplestown Gamecock, a yearling owned by the well- known shorthorn breeder, Mr. J. F. Wright, whose brother secured the reserve champion ship with Kilkea Double Event, an April calf. Mr. J. F. Wright won the group ...

... ny fff m s iS^M^BSSXBB^BSUUtk n °Tc^ I Hb farv^ J r/lr AKtokABV vi dI MR. G. E. C. BEALE, of Church Farm, Lower Basildon, Berkshire, has ploughed up the greater part of his Thames Valley farm in accordance with war agricultural policy, and so turned from stock to arable. As an expert in seed produc tion, he is interested in growing the less common or specialist crops on a large scale. Last ...

... A FEW years ago, when I used to corre spond regularly with the late P. A. Vaile, the Chicago writer, I received a letter from him together with a copy of an article written by Bobby Jones and syn dicated all over the States. Vaile quoted a paragraph of this article in his letter in which Jones said, when I am hitting the ball well, I feel no shock at contact, because the club is swinging ...