... A Famous Herd In Its New Home Young Men With A Great ResDonsibility UNTIL twenty years ago the Duke of Marlborough owned, and success fully farmed, Elmwood Farm, at Black Bourton, about sixteen miles west of Oxford. The farm was then purchased by Mr. W. J. Craddock, a hunting man, who remained there until his death in 1936, when Mr. R. E. Jenkinson, a successful fruit and market gardener, ...

... WHILE fog rolled in from the Straits of Dover, the Fells round Westmorland had their first real covering of snow this winter. To the relief of farmers and shepherds, but to the disappoint ment of children and winter sports enthusiasts, the snow was disap pearing rapidly, as our photographer took these lovely pictures in the bright winter sunshine. The sheep are rounded up on Howgill Fells, ...

... By John Radnor THE Dominion Services are taking an increasingly active part in the war time sport of the old country. Their numbers over here are limited, like the time for play, but the skill, the natural aptitude and the keenness are there, and these three between them, as we know, can achieve wonders. Already, in Rugby Football, the New Zealanders and Australians, especially when they have ...

... he King's Land-Girls A Happy Family of Eleven at Sandringham THE Sandringham Estate, short of labour, like all other estates in wartime, has taken a number of women workers to make good the deficit. There are at present eleven members of the Women's Land Army living on the estate. The land-girls work on the farms as well as in the dairy sheds and (former) flower borders. The King and Queen, ...

... Mr. Martin's Ayrshires At Their Home in King's Langley, Herts. MR. GILBERT MARTIN'S name has been intimately associated with Ayrshire cattle since his boyhood days in Scotland, and he is one of the leading authorities on the breed. Mr. Martin founded his herd with animals from well-known Scottish families, and at Barnes Farm, King's Langley, Herts., he maintains about 200 head of cattle which ...

... MRS. R. D. TAYLOR, of Oare, Berks, has been elected the first woman chairman of the Berkshire Executive of the N.F.U. The daughter of the late Mr. Frank Masters, of Oakash, she married one of the best farmers in the district, and, since her husband's death, has carried on the work of the 400-acre farm of Oare. The T.T. dairy herd consists of forty-five cows, which are under the care of W.L.A. ...

... THE Food Research Institute of Stanford University has published an analysis en titled War Time Food Developments in Germany, which has been re viewed by that most interesting technical journal Food in its current issue. Many astonishing figures and surprising deductions appear in it. The booklet deals with Germany's pre-war food situation, measures taken by the Nazis to increase food ...

... HOW many golfers remember Hoylake 1930, when that famous seaside links, with that glorious springy turf, was the scene of the Open Championship ? It was a big year for British golf the 1930 Walker Cup side, led by Bobby Jones, was over here, and when J ones and the team came to Hoylake, the Walker Cup and the Amateur Championship Cup were already in the bag while Jones himself was already ...

... TT ACING at Accra is held live times a year. The meetings, which J-V are of a very democratic nature, are conducted by the Accra Turf Club and are run on Jockey Club lines. There is a Tote no bookmakers are admitted a fashion parade, and there are two en closures, at 5s. and ios. The majority of the horses are Arabs or country-breds, mostly owned by Syrians. Owing to the tsetse fly, rarincr ...

... THE Toadsmoor herd was founded by Mr. G. R. Cobb at Steep ways, Nether Lypiatt, Glos., in 1932. A start was made by the purchase of three heifers at the dispersal sale of the late Lord Fitz- walter's herd, and selected animals were added from the island of Guernsey. Mr. Cobb did not pay ex ceptional prices for his stock-- the range was be tween 45 and 90 guineas but this represented much more ...

... THE United States Depart ment of Agriculture is recruiting labour for farms in the highly productive areas from districts where there is a surplus of manpower. Some of the 50,000 workers required will be transferred from Ken tucky to New Jersey. The eastern States produce large quantities of essential food stuffs for the cities on the Atlantic seaboard and also supply many of the require ments ...

... By Our Horticultural Correspondent THE present stringency of fuel supplies has limited the use of greenhouses for the raising of early vegetables. Early production, for its own sake, is no longer justifiable if it leads to fuel extravagance. To maintain high temperatures for the sole purpose of providing a few luxury dishes of dwarf beans or early potatoes before Easter is not good wartime ...