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... SUFFOLK sheep, at the Society's August Show and Sale, shared in the increased prices obtained recently for high-grade stock, although this very fine breed of arable land sheep has always been in steady demand, not only in the Eastern Counties, but also in the North and Midlands and wherever a good all-round type of animal is required. Originally bred from a cross between the old Horned Norfolk ...

... THE East Terrace of Windsor Castle was one of the country's show places before the war. The flower beds running up to the fountain in the centre were a sight which attracted thousands of visitors to the Castle. Since the outbreak of the war the garden has been laid out exclusively for food production. The Terrace, the size of a cricket field, has its orderly succession of vegetables. A part of ...

... THE Cavendish Golf Course at Buxton belongs to the Duke of Devonshire and was designed for him some twenty-odd years ago, by Dr. Mackenzie, the well-known architect. Dr. Mackenzie, while not the inventor of the built-up double-tier or plateau green-- Nature made these before golf was thought of-- con structed many courses throughout the world, where he has featured this type of green ...

... A CROP not often met with in British farming has just been successfully harvested at Britwell Farm, Burnham, Bucks. It is Pedigree Cocksfoot Grass, and was grown under the supervision of Mr. Cecil J. Twist. Formerly stocks of this valuable grass seed were imported from New Zealand and Denmark, but now we are largely dependent, on our own efforts. There is bound to be a great demand for this ...

... THE Glasgow Fair, the city's summer holiday, became a stay-at-home-holi day week, and the Corporation did everything to take the workers of the second city of the Empire out-of-doors for their well-deserved annual holiday. There was every kind of entertainment from dancing to golf. There was a feeling that exhibition golf matches might not take with the workers, and, in any case, that ...

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... VMHHE .J THE two pictures chosen for the frontispiece have been borrowed from the gardening feature of the current issue of Sport and Country in order to illustrate the importance of quantity and quality-production. The Dig and I loug or Victory campaigns have passed through many progressive phases -the figures are spectacular. But it is not the number of roods that are dug, nor of acres ...

... Two-Year-Olds from Newmarket BREEDERS of bloodstock continue to grade up, whether they wish to or not. In the case of certain breeders the process is automatic, year after year. Now, in wartime, the little breeders find themselves on the heels of the big fellows. True, they cannot all get the subscriptions which they would like to the fashionable stallions. Even so, a glance at the entries for ...

... THE Oxford Down Sheep Breeders' Association Annual Show and Sale was held on Wednesday, August II. The breed is increasing in popular ity as it combines early maturity with the hardiness of the Hill sheep, and rams are in steady request. The prices obtained showed that the Oxford shares in the general demand for good quality stock animals. The Oxford is the largest and heaviest of the Down ...

... GEO. W.KING LTD 'GEO. W.KING LTD FARM BUILDINGS For over 17 years Geo. W. King Ltd., have specialised in building and equipping farm buildings of all descriptions. Illustrated above is part of a range of bull boxes designed, equipped, and erected by King's. The future of Farm Building and Agricultural Building Development is receiving urgent consideration, and King's stand fore most amongst ...

... THE horse, integral factor in farming once again, be comes increasingly valuable. The Suffolk Horse Society's Summer Show and Sale at Ipswich provided fresh evidence of the demand for the Suffolks, a record return being shown for the two days. The 231 mares, fillies, foals and geldings yielded ^29,764 an all-over average of £429. Geldings went up at 340 guineas several of the mares and fillies ...