... The GREAT HORSE of ENGLAND has to begin life, like every other creature, as size one. None the less, Mr. A. J. Poyser's colt foal, Supreme Champion at the Derbyshire Foal Show, has the makings of an outsize stallion one day. Mr. W. J. Cumber, President of the Shire Horse Society (snapped with the Secretary, Mr. A. G. Holland), gave 200 guineas for the colt. The judges preferred him to the cham ...

... r&-,: An Oxfordshire At-Home Ycung Farmers' Annual Rally THE formation of an ever-increasing number of Young Farmer's Clubs in almost every i county augurs well for the future of agriculture in this island. No better way can be imagined of stimulating that interest inherent in so many of us in our oldest industry than by encouraging the development of such clubs. Also we are pleased to note ...

... By Major Kenneth Hare-Scott HAVING just returned after nearly three months in France, it is interest ing to reflect upon the lot of the Normandy farmer as one came to know it both before we landed on D-Day and sub sequently when the battle had fanned out over his domain. Being in a Beach Group I was stationed in the same part of Normandy for the whole of my stay in France, and so was able to ...

... THE popularity of the Red Poll was demonstrated at Ipswich on Thursday, October 5, when breeders from the West of England, Wales, Scotland and York shire competed for the pur chase of high-grade stock. Captain Whitehead, from Aber gavenny, purchased four females at an average price of ./165. The Bull classes attracted a number of Red Poll breeders, and the best price of 320 guineas at the sale ...

... 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. ...

... Lytham's Lesser-Known Course A Small Club's Fine Gesture WHEN one talks of golf at Lytham, one thinks immediately of the Royal Lytham and St. Annes Golf Club, whereas in reality there is a modest little inland course not far from Lytham railway station on which the average golfer is more at home. This club, called the Lytham Green Drive Golf Club, has a moderate length 18-hole course on flat, ...

... THE meteorologists, several years ago, evolved a definition to cover the expression a rainy day. A rain- day, they say, is one on which the rainfall is not less than 1/100th of an inch. What would not our generals, as well as our farmers, give to know when that 1/100th of an inch would fall! It is idle to reflect that, were the weather predictable more accurately than is at present possible, ...

... v Historic Estate for Scottish National Trust Kintail, Seat of the Earls of Seaforth IN spite of the increasingly absorbing war news, we have read from time to time, with a mingled sense of interest and relief of gifts and purchases for the National Trust. These have ranged from comparatively modest cottages to estates of vast acreages. How ever, irrespective of their acreage or value, the ...

... THE Royal Air Force has taken enthusi astically to the cultivation of fruit and vegetables on waste areas at aero dromes and stations. The Air Force men, in their spare time, have achieved a high standard, and the show at Westminster on October 10 and u afforded proof of what can be done in the production of foodstuffs on land which would otherwise be useless. The gardens vary in size from 6o ...

... I^aMigSv opv a Paper Weight's Derby Prospects A Win for the King NEWMARKET'S October meeting, the last of the season as far as Head quarters is concerned (and did you bow to the Ditch on leaving?) was very enjoyable and produced some excellent racing. Its outstanding features were the Dewhurst Stakes and the Jockey Club Cup. There was also a Cambridgeshire, but it, alas was but a shadow of ...