... 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 ...

... Recent Radio Pictures Transmitted Direct from Moscow LISTENING TO MARSHAL STALIN On the occasion ol the cwenty-sixth anniversary ot the founding of the U.S.S.R., Marshal Stalin made one of his rare broadcasts to the people of the Soviet Union, in which he stated that the German forces occupying Russian territory were on the verge of a catastrophe. The two pictures above were taken as the ...

... THE LATEST PICTURES FROM ITALY From the Battle-fronts of the Fifth and Eighth Armies, where Fighting All Along the Line has been Fierce and Continuous HOW THE FIFTH ARMY PUSHED ON TO THE RIVER GARIGLIANO. advance towards Rome continues steadily and inexorably. The rising smoke ol battle as the Allies neared their main objective. On the west coast ol Italy the After the capture of Mondragone ...

... MASSED ONSLAUGHT by PARATROOPS The most Dramatic Pictures yet Published of a Massed Parachute Descent by U.S. Troops taken during the Capture of Lae in New Guinea on September 5 1 1 has been rare during the progress of the present war that the opportunity has occurred to present to our readers such striking pictures as those reproduced on these pages. The one above, and the larger one on the ...

... AND HOW WILL DOENITZ DO IT This is the Manner in which the German Navy Surrendered the Last Time By FERDINAND TUOHY WE are all legitimately interested, these particular days, in just how the Germans split and disintegrated a quarter of a century ago. It is more than an indulgence of memory. The throw-back is useful in that it helps us to investigate possibilities which cannot lie far ahead, in ...

... Since the moment the Allies landed on the Italian coast the Air Forces have lent never-ceasing aid to the advancing armies by carefully planned and devas tating attacks at vital points in the German supply system. By night, it has been the role of the Wellingtons of the R.A.F. and R.C.A.F. to pound marshalling yards, rail junctions and road centres by day, light bombers and Flying Fortresses ...

... LIFE WITH THE ARMY Scenes from the Allied-Held Territories in Italy LANCE-SERGEANT EDDIE CONNOLLY, of Edinburgh, is the Battery Cook-Sergeant. He has an Italian woman for his assistant in the preparation of meals for the Battery THIS DESPATCH-RIDER HAD A FORCED HALT owing to water in the carburettor. The inevitable Italian child looks on with interest whilst he carries out the necessary ...

... She Ifioiial (Eancer 'Hospital i&otial (Eancer Hospital (FREE) FULHAM ROAD, LONDON, S.W.3. SPECIAL DEPARTMENTS fl B of the ROYAL CANCER HOSPITAL /J corner oj one of the Research Laboratories. Research NOWHERE is the search for the cause and cure of Cancer prosecuted with greater vigour than in the Research Laboratories of the Royal Cancer Hospital. The nature of this scourge is investigated by ...