... MOSS BROS? MOSS BROS L- JQDHPURS Breeches Sc complete Riding Outfits Horse lovers still manage to get their riding, and so keep fit -fi to do their bit. They may be glad to know that we still supply most items of Riding Kit Riding Boots and also Saddlery. For Officers in the Ser vices we have a full range of fittings in ready-for- wear Service breeches and Field Boots. Naval, Military, R.A.F. ...

... THE increased area of cereals grown under war conditions to produce grain, and so reduce the amount of food which must be imported, has caused an accumulation of stray in this country. Straw cannot be applied to the soil without treatment of some kind, and the supply of yard-fed fattening cattle is not sufficiently large to make it all into farmyard manure. The number of straw-stacks dotted ...

... HIGH prices were obtained at the English Guernsey Cattle Society's summer sale of Tuberculin and agglutination tested cattle on June 16 at Reading. Bidding was especially brisk for the animals presented to the society for disposal on behalf of the Red Cross Agriculture Fund. Purchasers of stock dedicated to this popular fund are usually generous bidders, but the animals sold were of high class ...

... Independent of the I Milkman THE nannv-goat is coming into her own these days a lady of leisure instead of a beast of burden at the seaside. A couple of quarts of fresh milk a day independent of what the milkman cares to leave is a real blessing to many families, so no wonder that a goat in milk fetches to-day as many pounds as she would have been sold for shillings before the war. Twenty ...

... cmcf 2^otvn THE well-known firm of Messrs. Cooper, McDougall & Robertson held their centenary anniversary meeting a few days ago. Sir Richard Cooper the Managing Director, gave a brief resume of the history and development of the firm. He pointed out that it was the invention of the first sheep- dipping powder by William Cooper a hun dred years ago that made it possible for the great wool and ...

... AT the present time wood for post- and-rail work or wire with metal supports is unobtainable even after a vast expenditure of time in filling up forms. But it is good to know that one type of fencing can still be purchased. It is possible to obtain split chestnut palings even in war time. For many years the manufacture of this material has been carried out in Sussex and other districts where ...

... ■TTTHRiVM Til Li k I I m IJ II 1 I 1 I I ,TI i WH xl 1 1 1 1 !l k l I ||H 1J II 1 I 1 I I f u m M m* Aww J H.M.KING GEORGE VI. j isisi ae 1 1 ,i i i 1 MI:I ONE MAN ONE MOTOR^CUT^ OPERATING COSTS NO TRACTOR REQUIRED One man can operate the Massey-Harris No. 21 Self Propelled Combine (Grain Tank Model). One economical heavy-duty motor propels the Combine and drives the threshing mechanism. Made ...

... By A. Croxton Smith UNTOLD centuries have passed since dogs and sheep became associated together, since men, then in advance of their age, realised that dogs could be useful in guarding the flocks from wolves and other predatory animals. The discovery of this fact marked one of those stages in human progress that have had considerable consequences in succes sive generations. Statisticians have ...

... THE mole is a serious nuisance on arable fields and also on newly planted forest land. Farmers wage unceasing war on this little pest with traps or poison and the pelts help to pay for the cost of the work. The rabbiter often in cludes mole catching as one of his activities, or the farm hands set traps in their spare time and receive a small sum for each animal captured. The stockman shown in ...