... 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 ...

... WAY OF THE WAR By Foresight Caution ONCE more the Prime Minister has put the war into perspective on the basis of all the facts before him, and with obvious regard for the facts about Germany and her position about which he cannot be as fully informed. He has told the House of Commons that on military grounds it seems difficult to believe that the battle for the final defeat of Germany can ...

... Tli Return of Tommy Trinder Happy and Glorious Provides Riotous Entertainment at the Palladium _ latest George Black musical funfare at the Palladium. It is fast-moving entertainment, run ning the whole gamut of emo tion from light-hearted foolery through love and laughter to martial glory and national pride. It is all in the best tradition of the Palladium there is Tommy Trinder with his own ...

... 0 c^d A Wartime Chronicle of Town and Country Court Mourning COURT mourning, ordered by His Majesty for the death of his great-aunt, Princess Beatrice, did not cause the cancellation of many functions, since in these days there are, unfortunately, all too few engagements of a character to be affected. Almost the only outward and visible signs were the mourning bands worn by the officers on ...

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... By Elizabeth Bowen Ora Formidabile AMONG the hundred thousands of faces milling about jubilant Paris on the night of November n, 1918, one paused, care worn, under an arc light of a boulevard. It was that of Emmanuele, Italian journalist, who thus greeted his American friend Yes, we have an armistice the ora formidabile has struck. The American was Stephen Bonsai, whose Unfinished Business ...