... 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 majority of the great industrial concerns of the .country have been occupied for many months past in planning their own post-war development-- an important task on which the future of agriculture as well as that of industry depends. Agriculturalists and the public utility con- cerns must work together with the big industrial organisations if prosperity is to be achieved. There is, however, ...

... Combined Operations i( ambs. CAMBRIDGESHIRE and Isle o El W.A.E.C.s organis d capital Demonstrate and Show of Live .Sto ...

... THE Summer Show and Sale of Suffolk horses, spread over two days, was notable for the fact that several new owners took the oppor tunity of selecting fresh blood for their studs and farms. Among them was Lady Louis Mountbatten, whose recently-formed stud in Hampshire was reinforced by the first-prize five-year-old mare Boxted Ruby, for which she paid 250 guineas to Messrs. G. R. Blewitt. Lady ...

... By Our Horticultural Correspondent MANY amateur gardeners do not fully realise the advantages gained by sowing, during the present month certain vegetable seeds which are normally put in during the first few months of the year. Onions may be mentioned as a case in point. There are three principal methods of growing this crop (i) Sowing in boxes in a heated greenhouse in January or February ...

... How Grain and Straw frai the Combines are Handled GRAIN DELIVERY The clean grain is passed along by an auger' feed and delivered into the lorry, which keeps pace with the combine. REMOVING GRAIN FROM A HOPPER: When the storage tank is full the combine is stopped and a lorry lined with tarpaulin collects the grain. STRAW IN THE FIELD The International Combine leaves it in loose rows the usual ...

... THE Navy has always known the value of fresh vegetables in maintaining health, and the Fleet Air Arm has inherited that taste from its parent Service. The Arm has extensive land stations, and on many of these the Dig for Victory campaign has been taken up with great enthusiasm by the personnel. On the station in Southern England shown in these pictures a large proportion of the personnel, from ...

... DAIRY farming is one of the most important industries in Normandy, and one of the many duties of the British Army is to round-up cattle from fields in the war zone and evacuate them to a safer region. The animals are driven in from the front line by forward infantry units, often under heavy fire, and placed in temporary enclosures under the charge of the Military Police. Each animal is ...

... Lacock Abbey. Wiltshire 7 THE Abbey, which first came into existence as a Nunnery in the early thirteenth century, has been presented to the National Trust, together with the beautiful village of Lacock, by Miss Matilda Talbot. When Henry VIII broke up the monasteries he sold the Abbey to William Sharington, who in his turn gave it to his niece, who married a Talbot. William Henry Fox Ta'bot's ...

... : By W. H. Cashmore THE present-day popularity of the com- bine is indisputable, and is based on sounder principles than at any time during the introduction of combine harvesting to this country. The earlier models seen in England were of the prairie type and were suitable only for downland districts, where crops are light and straw unimportant. The first real boom started with the ...

... NEAR EDINBURGH, the house at Saughton Mains looks across to the Pentland Hills on the south and over fields to the west there is a large, walled garden on the east side. It is able to accommodate ten girls at a time, as well as staff. Scotland LIVING-ROOMS have been decorated with care and good taste. The house is in the hands of an experienced matron, whose genius for domestic management is ...

... IT is always a pleasure to visit the Royal Lytham and St. Anne's Golf Club; there is that lovely links running close along the railway, the lovely turf and the keen fair greens, the grand comfortable club house which seems to stand for all that is solid in the golf game, whilst the excellence of the cuisine and the hospitality of the members goes without saying. This visit made my third in the ...