... Half a million helpers have started on the toughest harvest job in our history, something like 100,000,000 tons of crops to be gathered in. The Duke of Norfolk, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture, has just been on a week's tour of some of the holiday harvest camps provided for these voluntary workers. He went by train and cycle, paying his daily four shillings for supper, ...

... MR. FRANK PARKINSON, of the Manor Farm Estate, West Tisted, Hants., recently had the pleasure of enter taining the Minister of Agriculture and his wife, whose special object was to inspect the fine herd of attested pedigree Ayrshirfes this is now one of the show herds of the county. Mr. Parkinson, despite his immense business interests^in wartime devoted entirely to Government work supervises ...

... Leicester City-- Farmers THE City Corporation Farms of Leicester have been in existence for fifty years. Alderman W. K. Billings, who is chairman of the Farms Com mittee, explains that the primary duty of his committee, which has 2500 acres under its care, is to deal with the sewage of the city and utilise the land, both for purifying the effluent and to grow valuable crops and allow it to ...

... THE Ministry of Agriculture needs no boosting, nor do the humble people need a reminder of their responsibilities to wards the food-production effort. The status of agriculture was stressed by the Prime Minister in his Guildhall speech on June 30th I submit that in the four most im portant spheres of finance, labour, agriculture and food an efficient, vigorous and successful administration has ...

... THE Shire Horse, so highly esteemed in the Midlands, is gradually undergoing a modification in type as a result of the insistent demand for clean-legged horses, and the consequent efforts of breeders to reduce hair to finer and silkier proportions. Mr. Morris Belcher, of Tibberton Manor, is too well known to Shire breeders to need introduction here. He has at present some twenty-eight horses ...

... \T O racehorse owner -L> ever deserved suc cess more than Miss Dorothy Paget, who achieved her ambition when Straight Deal, whom she bred herself, won the New Derby at New market. Miss Paget, who won the Grand National with Golden Miller in 1934, is the only woman to have brought off the big double. Lady James Douglas won the war time Derby of 1918 with Gainsborough; Mrs. Miller won the Epsom ...

... THE Agricultural Department at the University of Leeds has been engaged for four years in an extensive investigation into the methods for the eradication of bracken and its replacement by a good grazing turf. Many different processes have been tried, as bracken is one of the most serious weed pests in the country, especially on light soils, and it spreads very rapidly. Unlike most other ferns ...

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... Hampshire 'Downs THE Salisbury prize fair for slieep, held on Thursday, July 8th, attracted a good attendance and a large number of sheep were penned. The quality of the exhibits was described as better than that of previous fairs, and this speaks well for the progress of the breed. The Hampshire is a well- known Down sheep and has been recognised by the R. A. S. E. since i 8 6 I although it ...

... By Our Horticultural Correspondent AT the present time the gardener is rapidly acquiring an asset much coveted by the military strategist-- room to manœuvre. The clearance of early-maturing crops seems to give the summer gardening season a new lease of life, and the maintenance of continuous vegetable supplies for the next nine or ten months will depend to a large extent upon the proper use ...

... fr 23, 1943 IripleX the safety glass fortnightly ILLUSTRATED SPORTING AND DRAMATIC NEWS SPOKTACOUNIK&t Mil ...

... NIAB THE National Institute of Agricultural Botany carries on its very valuable work under a council composed of members nominated by the Ministry of Agriculture and by all the large associations interested in the work of supplying farmers with pure tested seeds and new varieties of agricultural crops. The Institute also acts as an advisory centre for all purposes connected with the many ...