... Para-pups and Others By A. Croxton Smith WHETHER at the front or at home, men of the fighting services are all the better for a relaxation, for some interest that will enable them to forget for a while the sterner duties upon which they are engaged. We think of these fine lads as being so busily occupied that they have no spare moments as an interlude from fighting. As I have mentioned in ...

... MOSS BROS A CO. LTD. MOSS BROS A CO. LTD. se*^ccS n Moss Bros, have been making Service Mackintoshes these fifty years time enough to have seen a few nasty down pours and prove their worth They are scientifically made, cut to the accepted pattern for Navy, Army and R.A.F. (and for Women's Services, too) and are supplied in all sizes. We need hardly add that they are also completely impervious ...

... THE King and Queen have always shown a great personal interest in agriculture and the well- being of the farm workers. They recently made a thorough tour of inspection of a Volunteer Agricultural Camp and also visited an area of woodland which is being cleared, ploughed and culti- vated with disc-plough and gyrotiller in readiness for a wheat crop. The Royal Party was accompanied by the Duke ...

... THE following letter, received from a gunner-reader serving abroad, is printed with a few deletions. It is in line with many criticisms of the present aspects of pedigree stock rearing which reach us from home sources. The fact, however, that a serving soldier, many hundreds of miles away, is so concerned with the situation indicates the anxiety of at least one man who may be taken as ...

... Planning for Newmarket's Stud Farms A CURIOUS notice has been issued by the solicitors to the Jockey Club in connection with post-war planning of New- market Stud Farms. This took the form of a letter which was read at a recent meeting of the Newmarket Urban District Council. Full particulars of it are not available as I write, but the letter appears to have touched on two points. The first ...

... orv The Jockey Club on Centrali sation July Sales Results. THE following notice appeared in the Racing Calendar of July 27: A discussion on the future policy of Jockey Club Racecourses Limited followed Jat a meeting of the Club] in which Lord Portal, Mr. Anthony de Rothschild, Lord Ilchester, Lord Hamilton of Dalzell, Lord Zetland, Lord Rosebery, Mr. Holland Martin and others took part. It ...

... THE widespread national demand for an improved standard of life after the war can only be met by the proper training of school-children (and older people as well) in the art of successful home management. Indeed, the lack of prepara tion for the life-work of so many women is one of the causes of the malnutrition, ill-health and domestic discomforts of the present time. The adequate provision ...

... UNTIL quite recently the methods of preparing charcoal had not changed for many centuries. In the past, when charcoal was universally used as fuel, the woodland burner was an important personage and his produce was on sale in every market. Cord wood or poles were built into conical piles with a centre flue, and the heap covered with turf or soil. The charcoal-makers drew the fire through the ...

... THE ruthless power of the tank or bull dozer is not so much in the engines as in the ability of the track-layer to utilise every ounce of power that the engines can produce. It is the same with the track- laying tractor ploughing up the hillside with such ease that seemingly extra power comes more from the track than the engine. To overcome the wheel-slip of the ordinary tractor there are many ...

... THE Annual Ram Show and Sale of Kent--now perhaps better known as Romney Marsh--sheep is always a great event for flockmasters interested in the breed. This year it was held at Ashford, and there was a good attendance and brisk bidding. The show champion and the reserve both came from the class for yearling rams unshorn. The first and champion ram, entered by Exors. of J. E. Quested, realised ...

... THE Devon Catrle Breeders' Society had a very successful day at ihe 93rd show and sale of tuberculin-tested bulls at Exeter on October 4. The breed is so deservedly popular that high-class animals are always in demand, and the prices realised at the sale indicated an even standard of quality. The average for the hundred bulls sold was £94 1 8s. 7d. and the highest in dividual price was 305 ...

... Record Totals and Averages THE boom in bloodstock, or, more correctly, the considerable appreciation in prices, has been noted in England (at the New market Sales), in America (Keeneland), in Australia and now in Ireland. Conditions on the Irish stud farms, and the enthusiastic support given to racing by Irish racegoers during the war period, have been favourable to breeders, who, at Messrs. ...