... THE question of compulsory pasteurisa tion has, for the second time, become a matter of national interest. In 1938 it was suggested that all milk should be so treated, but the matter was allowed to drop. Now the subject has again come under review, but the large dairy factories have for a long time pasteurised their milk. Elaborate installations have been designed for efficient working, every ...

... Another Temperamental Guineas' Favourite Restrictions on Two-Year-Olds NEWMARKET'S pre-Guineas tests were satisfactorily carried out at the First Spring Meeting on the 4th and 5th. As a result, the Aga Khan's colt, Nasrullah, has hardened in price as favourite for the 2,000 and Lord Rosebery's Ribbon has re placed the sprinter, Lady Sybil, in favouritism, for the sister event. Those are the ...

... OLD customs die hard, and in a few West Country towns the Hobby-Horse still makes his appearance on May Day. The origin of the custom is unknown, but the Hobby-Horse was a popular attraction in the Middle Ages and has survived as a May Day institution at Padstow. The body of the horse is a large, tub-shaped framework covered with black tarpaulin. There is a small horse's head in front, but the ...

... WEST SUSSEX, under the leadership of the Duke and Duchess of Norfolk, Sir Merrik Buirell (Chairman of the West Sussex War Agricultural Com mittee) and other first-class workers in the area, has proved itself one of the most go-ahead divisions in the South of England since the war. Apart from its major agricultural activities, its Young Farmers' Clubs, Rabbit Clubs, and its comprehensive W.L.A. ...

... 8 y Our Horticultural Correspondent THE month of May often proves to be a testing time for the vegetable and fruit grower; it is certainly a period when I Nature stands most in need of human assist ance in promoting that vigorous and healthy growth which is so vitally necessary to make tender seedlings sufficiently robust to take care of themselves. I suppose the gardener s biggest nightmare ...

... THE Nottinghamshire War Agricultural Committee staged a comprehensive demonstration of horticultural machinery at the Midland Agricultural College. It attracted a large gathering of fruit growers and market gardeners. Demon strations were carried out with different types of cultivators, ploughs, trans planters and power sprayers. There is little doubt that the future development of ...

... ■I ■'■■■■■■lll--'l Ml 111 I i I 1 III-- THE MORNING'S AT SEVEN, when the party sets out. One member of it has thoughtfully packed a basket. i I nPHE thatther's art, reduced to practical and non-decorative proportions in wartime, is a necessary aid to food storage in the fields. There will be more ricks in the country than ever before, and the demand for expert thatchers will exceed the supply. ...

... nnHE Woodbridge Horse Society held its customary Show on Easter Monday with a programme which lasted from 10 to 4. The Suffolk Horse Society, which contributed /too towards the prizes, the town of Woodbridge, which presented the Victory Challenge Cup, and Messrs. R. H. and Russell Paul, who gave the Broxtead Challenge Cup, had the satisfaction of helping on some fine horses, especially some of ...

... LINCOLN bulls, correctly described as Lincolnshire Red Shorthorn bulls, have been shown for forty-eight years in Lincoln, and have always enjoyed a some what select popularity. The incidence of the war has brought them to the front, and at the recent Show and Sale at Lincoln many fine beasts attracted more attention than ever before. Mr. George Bowser, of Friskney,. Boston, exhibited two fine ...

... THE Spring Show and Sale of took place on April 30, and attracted a large number of good and representative entries from well-known herds. This fine Eastern Counties breed of dual- purpose cattle deserve to be more widely known than they are. Most of the animals were from herds in Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex. Lord Cranworth, Mrs. R. M. Foot, Mr. W. N. Overland and Mr. S. Paul sent a large ...

... FOR some years cotton has been a commercial crop in Queensland, and the pictures show some harvest scenes in the Burdekin district, where girls harvest the 5000 acres of cotton grown in that area. During the war growers have been guaranteed a price of one shilling and threepence per lb. for lint cotton, equal to about fivepence-halfpenny per lb. for the bolls as harvested with seeds and ...

... A GREAT deal of misconception arises in discussions on the relations of animals to man, due, in great part, to an in curable habit of crediting farm stock, pets and even wild animals with exactly the same mentality as is possessed by human beings. The habit is a very old one. Much of our knowledge of the thoughts and ideas of people in the remote past is derived from folk tales-- fairy and ...