... 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 DAM-BURSTING EXPLOITS OF THE R.A.F. THE MOMENT ON THE AFTERNOON OF OCTOBER 7, as Lancaster of Bomber Command attacked the Kembs Dam across the Rhine a 1 2 ,000-lb bomb bursts at its western end and makes a huge gap in the immensely important dam in the Belfort sector During the past few days the R.A.F. have made three very important dam- bursting raids on Germany and German-held Europe. ...

... A THAMES BRIDGE BUILT SINCE THE OUTBREAK OF THE WAR AT WESTMINSTER This emergency bridge near the Houses of Parliament was erected for use in the event of the permanent bridges in the vicinity being put out of action by enemy bombs. It is now being used by pedestrians who normally used Hungerford footbridge, since the damage to the latter by German flying bombs. This picture reveals the ...

... 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, ...

... China Fights On For Freedom Pearl Buck's Heroic Dragon Seed Is Filmed I Dragon Seed is being shown at the Empire. Based on the novel by Pearl Buck, it tells of the heroic struggle of the Chinese masses to survive in spite of the fearful indignities and atrocities perpetrated by the Jap invader. The family of Ling Tan are typical of the millions of Chinese who eke out a living from the soil. ...