... THE recently formed Shropshire and Border Counties Bull Breeders' Association held their first Bull Show and Sale on Saturday. November 13. The preliminary schedule of the show defined the objects of the new venture as being To encourage the breeding of high-class cattle and the interests of bull breeders generally in Shropshire and the Border counties. It is proposed to hold several shows and ...

... EARLY VISITORS AT THE SALE: Pro spective buyers and others interested arrive early in the morning to inspect the animals for sale. TH E MORNING TOILET The animals are tidied up tails combed, hair brushed and flanks curry-combed. Ou-ner and auctioneer inspect Stokelycross Thorndale 5th, who realised 460 guineas. -r rW THE FARM SALE-RING The stands are made up with straw bales, which form the ...

... A Scratch Lot of Two-Year-Olds-- -The December Sales MR. FAWCETT ought to have added a note to his Two-year-old Free Handi- cap. He should in self-defence have asked us not to shoot the handicapper, who was only doing his best. It should be explained that, having published the usual Free Handicaps in the ordinary way-- one for two-year-olds and the other for three-year- olds, and both to be ...

... GORDON RICHARDS, as champion jockey, is in an unassailable position. As farmer, nothing would suit his dour and ambitious temperament but to be a grade A man he must always do thoroughly everything he attempts. His 250-acre farm, close to the famous Farringdon Road gallops, at Lambourn (shown in the background), is being severely and methodically cultivated Gordon has from November to April to ...

... British Friesians Some Personalities at York THE SECRETARY of the Society, Mr. George Hobson with his inevitable pencil. Mr. James Farshaw was also kept busy. Two cigarettes but only one thought Friesians. Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Evans I MR. H. A. JEN- I KINSON who had a very successful 9 meeting, with Sgt. H. G. Field, in peace- time a farmer in New Zealand. MRS. S. D. PLAYER with her husband, ...

... THE CHAMPION COLT Miss Paget' s bay colt Orestes, which she bred from Donatello II. and the Friar Marcus mare Orison. Unbeaten, his four races included the Coventry and Middle Park Stakes. Top of the Free Handicap with 9 st. 7 lb. THE LEADING FILLY: Mrs. Lavington's bay filly Fair Fame, bred by Lord Glanely from Fairway and Empire Glory, by Singapore. Winner of four races, including the Queen ...

... By A. Croxton Smith WORLD affairs have now reached such a stage that we are be- ginning to look forward more hopefully to the day our men will lay down their arms, and we shall once more be able to resume more peaceful pursuits. Thoughts of what happened after the last war give rise to speculation about the standing that will be accorded to German dogs. A little more than twenty years ago one ...

... HOW hard it is to believe that we shall not see play again, for a tragic aeroplane crash caused her death just a few days ago. Pam, as goiters everywhere called ner, with affection, was an infant prodigy, one of those prodigies who made good and stayed good. At 17 she reached the final of the Ladies' Open, and by the time she was 22 had won both the British and American Ladies' Open titles in ...

... British Friesians High Average at York f I *HE two-day Show and Sale of tuberculin- attested British Friesian cattle at York exceeded the most optimistic expecta tions on the part of venders. Eighty-three head were sold at the remarkable average of ^431 15. 7 d. a notable figure even for this notable sale. Exhibitors seemed to come from every county in England, and there were several lots from ...

... 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 ...