... THE auctioneers, Messrs. John Thorn ton Hobson and Co., offered 69 freshly-calved or down-calving heifers and 16 young bulls. All were pedigree stock from the attested and agglutination-tested Minsted herd. Altogether, 71 lots were sold, at an average per head of ^300 a record average for the breed in this country- MINSTED EXQUISITE 12841 is a daughter of Auchenbrain Morning Glory. Her calf by ...

... THE Shorthorn Society's Show and Sale at Reading, which occupied two days, con cerned 57 cows and heifers and 136 bulls. There were 10 classes, including a special butter- fat class for pedigree bulls. The Thornton Challenge Cup for the best group of three bulls was won by Colonel W. C. Devereux, of Round Hill, Kimble, Aylesbury. Buyers included the King's agent, who paid 550 guineas for ...

... /\oJh£^l on Breeders Should Bestir Themselves MAJOR GERALD DEANE has recently made one or more of his not infre quent and pertinent incursions into print on the position of the bloodstock in dustry. It amounts to an attack on the Jockey Club's handling of the war time situation an attack to which the Stewards are unlikely to reply, at any rate in print. J. neir aitticulty, I imagine, is that ...

... DURING recent years stock-farming in Southern Rhodesia has made great progress and a large export beef trade has been built up by the cattle farmers. In the early days of the industry the African stockmen had to contend with epidemics of cattle sickness, most of them carried bv insects or by ticks. But recent research on the subject has enabled the agricultural departments to keep these pests ...

... THE preparation of agricultural lime has become a matter of the utmost importance in these days of increased crop production. A considerable proportion of the land ploughed up during the war is sour and requires the application of lime if satisfactory crops are to be grown. Fortunately, there is an unlimited supply of limestone chalk is a very pure form of lime stone and millions of tons are ...

... TTALIAN propaganda before the war had made much of the fertile plains of Cyrenaica, converted into fields of glowing wheat by the happy colonists. Money, seed and machinery were poured into the country and, in some cases, considerable grants of land were made to favoured individuals. One such was Dr. Jung, former Finance Minister, whose estate was a personal present from the Duce. Here, in the ...

... MEMBERS of the Women's Land Army, toiling in countless fields, are con trolled by an elite body at Balcombe Place, the residence of Lady Gertrude Denman, Dame of the Order of the British Empire. The Women's Land Army was formed in June 1939, and in September of the same year Lady Denman irioved her headquarters from Whitehall to her home at Balcombe, Sussex. From here, 52 Land Army County ...

... RAMSEY ISLAND is situated about two and a half miles from Pembrokeshire, near St. David's Head, and consists of about 600 acres, run as .one farm in the occupation of Mr. Griffiths. The holding includes some arable and produces oats, barley, wheat, linseed and early potatoes. This year 150 acres are under plough and a flock of sheep graze on the rough pasture lying over the rocky headlands of ...

... 1. Telia polyphemus is one of the native American silk-moths. The caterpillar is a gorgeous creature, coloured a light translucent green. The stripes are silver and the tubercles on the body surface arc tipped with gold. ■If disturbed, the caterpillar will raise the fore part of the body in a 44 terrifying attitude, swing its head back and forth, and audibly click its jaws together in an ...

... By A. Croxton Smith A DISTINGUISHED ally in the battle field, General Eisen hower, has now come out as an associate in our pleasures. Among the applications for new prefixes and affixes that have to be published in the Kennel Gazette before they are approved, or otherwise, by the General Committee of the Kennel Club, was the following in a recent issue General Dwight D. Eisen hower, Allied ...

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... AJ R. HUGH WYLLIE, of Rush Court, Wallingford, Berks, is ivl a breeder of pedigree Ayrshire cattle who has estab lished such a reputation that few, if any, of his co-breeders can afford to dispense with the valuable strains with which his name is associated. His third annual sale, conducted at Rush Court, afforded new opportunities to buyers large and small anxious to spcure some of the famous ...