... THE English Jersey Cattle Society held their autumn Show and Sale at Reading on October 5. There was a large attendance and keen competition. Channel Island breeds have maintained a high level of value, as it is still uncertain how far the German occupation will affect the future of the native island cattle. Mr. H. L. Basden was judge for the female classes, and the President acted in a ...

... [From Our Parliamentary Correspondent.] Westminster, Monday, November 6. IN the House of Commons Mr. Hudson is being badgered about the absence of a Government statement on post-war agricultural policy. The general view was recently summed up by Miss Megan Lloyd George when she said, We are all eagerly awaiting a declaration of Government policy. We hope that it will not be delayed very much ...

... THE future of Chinese agriculture is really the future of China itself 80 per cent, of the total population are farmers. Theirs is a hard life so hard that tney have little time to think about world problems, let alone understand them. The almost universal primitiveness and illiteracy of the vast majority of the people are apt to be forgotten when Chinese culture is discussed and an equal ...

... MINSTED HENRIETTA, born May 1, 1.942, one of twin heifer calves, is a daughter of Auchenbrain Morning Glory, and ivas purchased for 360 guineas by Sir George Leon. MINSTED ROSEBUD 4TH, who was bought by- Mr. T. S. Bennett for 340 guineas, is a daughter of Minsted Footprint. His dam averaged 1170 gallons, with 3'73 per cent, bulterfals, for three lactations. MR. HUGH WYLLIE. C.OWGROVE BIG KATE ...

... t I 'HE demand for highly-bred Ayr- shires never seems to diminish, and every week one reads of fabulous prices being paid for pedigree animals. There was certainly no exception to the rule during Mr. Richard Barbour's .fourth draft sale at Bletchley, Bucks., when throughout the bidding was keen and prices ranged high. Of the females, Galley Lane Jessie 2nd fetched the highest price of 330 ...

... Dairy Shorthorns A Useful Breed Which Fully Merits Its Popularity LAST week, the Dairy Shorthorn Society held an important two-day Show and Sale in the Reading Cattle Market- A great number of entries were received over 200 in all which resulted in very keen competition in all the classes. Females were in very steady demand, while the bidding for bulls soared. The occasion of the second day ...

... WHEN the General Purposes Committee of the English Golf Union put forward recently a recommendation to the R. and A. that golf balls should in future be constructed so that they are never going to go farther than the 1939 balls, I am afraid I felt that another attempt was being made to interfere with the golf game. I spoke to one of the members of this committee, who was present at the meeting ...

... The 1944 Season in Review Next Year's Classic Outlook YET another wartime racing season is over-- the fifth of the series. All those kind people who are so good at adding up figures will by now have com- puted how many races everybody has won, how much they have raked in in stakes (carefully omitting how much it has cost them; racehorse owners are like car owners and persuade themselves, by ...

... By A. Croxton Smith WAR time inevitably brings de mands upon the good will of the public, most of which re- ceive sympathetic consideration on the principle that nothing can be too good for the men who are fighting, dying and undergoing hardships for the sake of the old country. One organisation seems to me to deserve precedence of all others on account of the intimate manner in which it is ...

... £311 The N.P.B.A. r Annual Show and Sale at Readin? THE National Pig Breeders' Association has in the past held its annual Show and Sale at Peterborough, but this year the .fixture was transferred to Reading, which is becoming the centre of the livestock interest. The meeting occupied two days October 17 and 18 the first reserved for J Large Whites, while the second included Middle Whites, Tam ...

... THE demesne of Throp- ton, situated in the broad valley of the Coquet in Northumberland, has a romantic history, for in the past Scottish raiders' rode over the marches, seized cattle from the well-stocked valley farms and drove them over the border. The Thropton area was particularly vul nerable, as it runs nearly up to the Roxburghshire border. Thropton demesne, a typical Northumberland ...

... RUGBY history was made at Murrayfield when the Royal Australian Air Force met South African Services for the first time. The match, organised by Lieut. Col. G. B. Dryden, of the Scottish Command, and Capt. L. Maxwell- Davis, of the South African Army, produced some splendid Rugby well to the liking of the Scottish crowd. The Australians won by 14 to 11, thanks chiefly to their backs, who ...