... was celebrated in the little Sussex village of Elsted on the evening of July 30. Members of the West Sussex Y.F.C., led by the Rector, walked to a cornfield, where the simple ceremony of blessing the loaf and the first sheaf of corn took place. The scene, with the farm wagon in the foreground, the ripe wheatfield, the South Downs glorious in the sunshine, and the eager young people joining in ...

... THE Suffolk Sheep Society held a success ful two-dav Show and Sale at Ipswich on August 2 and 3, the second day being devoted to rams, when some 200 animals appeared in the ring. Ram lambs are in request by flock-owners, who have to look ahead in making their selection of breeding stock. There was some spirited bidding for good lambs from well-known flocks. The judges were MajoJC Norman ...

... oung Farmers in Berks PEWSEY VALE Y.F.C. were recently invited to visit the Stype Estate, near Hungerford, Berks, built up from an original 550 acres into a total component of 3250 acres; of the whole, 1200 acres are now under cultivation or are being grazed. The additional land consisted of 60 derelict holdings, and the whole place was overrun by vermin. It was cleared of gorse, bramble and ...

... The report issued by the Parliamentary and Scientific Committee, notes on which appear elsewhere in this issue, takes an unusually broad and comprehensive view of the needs of British agriculture. Its insistence on the fact that we should take care to foster the production of those foods which can be obtained from elsewhere only with difficulty, etc., is plain sense, which everybody can ...

... THE recent debates, in both Houses, on India -were reported in part in the last issue of Sport and Country by our Parlia mentary Correspondent. There are great hopes that the agricultural problem, the essence of which is to meet the needs of the ever-growing population (the annual increase is about 5,000,000 per annum), will be imaginatively tackled by the two Govern ments. Pictures on this ...

... TNDIA Command's Military Farms Department claims to run the biggest dairy farm in the world. There is in Lahore one farm of 90.000 acres on which graze 10,000 buffaloes. On it stands the factory, which turns out 3000 tins of milk daily, most of which goes to British and native troops on the Burma front. The buffalo population of India (of which the M.F.D. controls only a fraction) consists of ...

... How PuDDies Change By A. Croxton Smith Any inexperienced person looking at the bull pups illustrated on this page to-day might be excused for question ing if they were pure bred, so different are they from the finished product of maturity. We are all familiar with the wonderful head so characteristic of the breed with its wide, flat skull, its deep chops, the nose receding almost between the ...

... The Lords on Soil and Health By Our Parliamentary Correspondent WESTMINSTER, Monday, February 14TH. THE relation of the soil to health was the subject of an extremely interesting debate in the House of Lords. It took place on a motion by Lord Teviot, asking the Royal Commission on the birth rate, to consider the condition of the soil in relation to the health of man, animal and plant. There ...

... TO make a little occasion of Air Chief Marshal Sir Sholto Douglas's birthday on December 23, King Farouk invited the Chief Marshal and other officers to a shoot over the Royal Preserves at Tel-el- Kebir in the Canal Zone. Sir Sholto Douglas has just recently been appointed Air Officer Commander-in-Chief Coastal Command. AIR CHIEF MARSHAL SIR SHOLTO DOUGLAS chatting with General Abrahim Atellah ...

... MANY thousands of pounds- worth of splendid pedi gree cattle change hands annually at the Aberdeen-Angus Show and Sale in Perth. Buyers in peacetime come from all over the world to select stock for breeding purposes, and even in wartime travel long distances in order to be present. The Duke of Norfolk, Joint-Parlia mentary Secretary to the Minister of Agriculture, and the Earl of Rosebery, ...

... THE King and Queen recently visited an area of Berkshire scrub and woodland whichis the subject of an extensive reclamation scheme. Their Majesties were much interested in the details of the work, which included the use of bulldozers for clearing the ground and heavy implements to break up the soil in readiness for a crop. The picture shows the King and Queen chatting with members of the ...

... i s i ^,'ihbbmi ACCURATE planting of savoys, cabbage, leeks, etc., by tractor-drawn machines has always presented considerable difficulty. Similarly, close hoeing in growing crops has not been easy to achieve with the tractor. The accom panying photographs will give readers some idea of the steady progress being made by the agricultural machinery industry to help the farmer and market gardener ...