... By Our Horticultural Correspondent THE clearance of early vegetables, such as peas, Spring cabbage, broad beans, etc., will free a number of plots in the kitchen garden for further cropping, and the maintenance of ample and varied winter vegetable supplies will depend to a large extent, on a judicious use of these plots. Provision should be made for plenty of autumn and winter greenstuffs for ...

... INFORMATION, illustrating the difficul ties under which German farmers are working--shortage of labour, fertilisers, machinery, etc.--is periodically released by the Ministry of Information. This, we are sorry to see, is often seized on by the daily Press (aided and abetted, one suspects, by the Ministry of Agriculture) with an air of rather smug satisfaction. There is presumably no great harm ...

... THE large sheep-farms in the mountainous part of the South Island, where half-bred flocks graze on the sparse vegetation of the bush slopes, provide a healthy but strenuous life during the mustering, dipping and shearing seasons. Extra labour is engaged and youngsters from the towns come up to help in the less skilled farmwork. Sheep are driven from the hill-slopes and mustered at the farm. ...

... England v. Australia One-Day Holiday Test Match at Lord's A RECORD crowd of over 25,000 enjoyed every minute of Whit Monday at Lord's, for the one-day test against Australia was a great success. England won with wickets to spare sbi of them but only ten minutes in time. THE ONE-DAY TEST: Whit Monday at Lord's was grand holiday weather, holiday crowds and a match played to a finish, England ...

... BY the time this is read, Parliament will have returned to work after the brief Whitsun recess and, all being well, the House of Commons will have passed the Rural Water Supplies and Sewerage Bill which will now go to the Lords. There was also arranged for this week a debate on loca tion of industry, the regulation of which is of great importance to agriculture. This was the subject of the ...

... Young Farmers in Four Counties Berkshire THESE happy young people are members of Young Farmers' Clubs in Berkshire. On succeeding pages are pic tures illustrating Y.F.C. acti vities in three other counties. The Y.F.C. movement con tinues to make immense strides and is supported by some of the most infiueptial agricul turists in the country. Young farmers, choosing in wartime to devote their ...

... ALTHOUGH Floors Farm, Eaglesham (near Glasgow), gained a wide notoriety when Hess landed on it in 1941, it is one which has a special interest in agricultural matters. Calf-rearing here is the main occupation, and ingenious methods in feeding, cleanliness, and especially in segregation, might well be fol lowed profitably on many other farms. The attested herd of Ayrshires usually number about ...

... THE Bedfordshire Golf Club at Bidden ham organised a successful match for the Red Cross and St. John Fund on their course just 1 from the centre of Bedford town, a most convenient distance in these days of transport restrictions. Missingword Many Service men and women, including our Dominion and American friends, followed the play on a lovely afternoon for golf dull, with a nice breeze blowing ...

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... THE largest assembly of farmers in Worcestershire since the beginning of the war took place at Mr. T. S. Bennett's Home Farm, Madresfield, Malvern, when a demonstration and display of attested pedi gree and commercial dairy and beef cattle was held to launch the Worcestershire FARLEY GOLD DIGGER, shown by Captain Ludlow Hewitt, of Apperley, Tewkesbury, came into the world as a result of a ...

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... A War Time Effort Foundation of the Tara Guernsey Herd MRS. Robin McAlpine, who took over Huish Farm, near Basingstoke, in partnership with her husband in the winter of 1941, is one of many women in the country who have made farming, or dairying, or other work on the land a war job to begin with, but who have become absorbed in it and have decided to carry on with it after the war. Huish Farm, ...