... A Great West-Country I Agricultural College THE Seale-Hayne Agricultural College is situated among typical South Devon scenery in an area of varied agricultural practice. It is about three miles from New ton Abbot and close to the sea. There is a College farm of about 400 acres, which allows ample scope for general farm work and teaching as well as specialised instruction in practical ...

... IT is unfortunate, at a time when the electorate is trying to under stand and to pass judgment on the various aspects of post-war re form that are being propounded, that it should be confused by a statement of agricultural policy issued by the Labour Party. The question has been introduced by the publication at the week-end of a pamphlet entitled Our Land. A difficulty is that this so-called ...

... Leicestershire Beef For Farmers Only LEICESTERSHIRE, in common with all agricul tural counties, has its own particular war time problems; but its farmers might be forgiven for saying that their problems are more difficult than anybody else's. Once, their pastures afforded some of the best grazing in the land; then the long pre-war period followed in which more and more farmers turned over to ...

... Corps d'Elite THE Transjordan Frontier Force, to be seconded to which was the ambition of many a progressive young officer before the war, is one of the corps d'dlite in the Middle East. Magnificently mounted, it is a highly disciplined force, moder ised and recruited from hand-picked elements Arabs (Moslem and Christian), Druses, Circassians and Armenians. The Squadron illustrated is at ...

... LINCOLNSHIRE Red Shorthorn cattle, more commonly known as Lincoln Reds, are indigenous to the county, although they have been bred almost beyond recog nition since the breed was founded early in the nineteenth century. In the year 1810 a select number of enter prising North Lincolnshire breeders went to Durham and secured three bulls from Charles Coding's great sale. The animals, specially ...

... ONE hundred and eleven Dairy Shorthorns at the Penrith Association's show and sale fetched an average of just over ^94. This is ^5 more than last year when many fewer animals were sold top price was 335 guineas for the champion. The thirty-one bulls averaged ^74 us. J. W. Broatch's Raven Victor selling to W. Horncastle and Son for 170 guineas. CHAMPION The newly calved heifer Wallthwaite ...

... SISAL hemp is a very important commodity and is required for many purposes. It is obtained from a species of Agave variety sisalana. The plant was one time grown in Central America, where it was known as Henequen, but sisal is now extensively cultivated in the West Indies and in Africa. The long, tough leaves are cut when the plant is about four years old and the soft tissues are removed with ...

... WITH the return of the first five thousand of our wounded heroes, it occurred to a one-armed friend of mine to approach me, to point out in an article for the notice of those who have lost an arm, that golf is one of the games they can play and play quite successfully. I am sure that to begin with their first consideration will be to find out what they can best do to earn a living and after ...

... A Happy Landing for Breeders at Newmarket. THE Newmarket Sales, held by Messrs. Tattersall on December 6 to 10, ended very successfully with an approxi- mate gross turnover of 260,435 guineas for 598 lots sold. These figures may be compared with the 163,967 guineas realised for 426 lots last year, and with the 242,279 guineas for the 843 lots sold in 1938-- the last pre-war year. Totals do not ...

... I ONE of the minor hardships of war, so difficult to explain to children, is the shortage of toys. Materials are short and so is labour, and as a result toys are hard to get and terribly expensive. But the Education Department of the London County Council had an ingenious idea. It occurred to them that several useful purposes could simultaneously be attained by supplying blitz debris-- wood, ...

... THE Earl of Radnor, whose country home is Longford Castle, Salisbury, is a well- known authority on agriculture and an enthusiastic worker in the many problems of war time food production. He is the chairman of the Agricultural Machinery Development Board which will play an important part in the future of British farming, and is also a liaison officer to the Minister of Agriculture, a member ...

... The Lesser Two-Year-Olds AS I am firmly convinced that none of the top-weights in the 1943 Free Handicaps for two-year-olds will count for any thing in the Derby of next year, it may be as well to set out a few particulars relating to those of more modest avoirdupois. The following notes will not, therefore, concern Orestes, Happy Landing, the filly Fair Fame, or Effervescence. I have nothing ...