... 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 ...

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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, ...

... THE beekeeper who has a spare hive and wishes to increase his stocks without the risk of a natural swarm can induce an artificial swarm. There are two methods of doing this, which differ slightly. The choice depends on whether or not queen cells have been formed. The new hive must be prepared with ten empty combs-- drawn out for pre ference. Inject a little smoke at the entrance of the hive to ...

... speeds the plough by night and day Those increased yields from Britain's fields, obtained by a ploughing-up campaign unmatched in the history of agriculture, could not have been achieved so speedily but for the trustworthy tractor tyres which have provided in such great quantities. ...

... SOCIAL functions, with Royalty present, ceased, as such, on September 3, 1939. Preoccupation with State or other duties affecting their subjects, has prevented the King and Queen from enjoying any but the briefest of days of relaxation. Their holiday at home in the grounds of Windsor Home Park was shared by a big Whitsuntide crowd, delighted to see the King in informal tweeds and the Queen and ...