... AT the British Friesian Society's most success- ful Show and Sale at Reading Cattle Market, bulls averaged £414 and females ^'348, which in both cases was slightly less than the corresponding averages during last year's sale. The bidding, however, maintained a very high level twelve animals realising over 1000 guineas, two bids of 2000 guineas, and the record- breaking one of 3500 guineas for ...

... THREE generations of the Craig family have farmed Innergeldie, which is situated near Comrie, in Perthshire. Captain James Craig, who was a well-known breeder of Blackfaced sheep, retired this autumn, and the Laird Colonel M. R. F. Courage has taken over the farm. All the implements, with the miscel laneous effects and tools which accumulate on a working farm during a long tenancy, were sold ...

... THE Dominion Services over here are playing an invaluable part in keeping the Rugby game not to mention cricket alive and lucking in the old country. Their form, indeed, is notably good in the conditions, and one looks forward all the more to the inter-Services tournament which is almost certain to be a feature of the first peace-time season. One recalls how such a tournament was organised ...

... HPHE oil palm Elcsis is a' common tree in West Africa, and the hard kernels yield a good bland oil which has always been a staple foodstuff for the natives. Shea butter is used as a fat in many districts, but palm-oil is the standard oily food. The tree occurs wild in most areas, and one of the duties of Government agricultural officers in Nigeria is to persuade chiefs and headmen to cultivate ...

... By A. Croxton Smith YEARS hence, when the scars of war that deface the Metro polis have been healed, our children and grandchildren will look back with interest upon any pictorial records that remind them of the rough handling we received. Those who are concerned with dogs will be grateful to Mr. B. Howitt-Lodge for his painting Under the Shadow of St. Paul's, which depicts the memorable ...

... These marks indicate metal shrinkage is in the factories helping to produce vital aircraft parts The above X-ray picture of a light alloy casting is typical of the way radiography exposes hidden internal flaws that might cause serious breakdowns. Industrial radiography today uses up vast quantities of 'Kodak' Film. If you have difficulty in buying a spool, please remember such vital work must ...

... Dining and Dancing In' Three of London's Favourite Spots Soup to start with for Lady Amy Biddulph, who was dining with her husband, the Hon. Michael Biddulph. She is Lord Normanlon's sister lome again after five years' service abroad, Major G. A. Murray- 'mith tool his wife out to dine. She was formerly Ulrica Thynne Left Waiting for her table was Mrs. Jar dine Hunter -Pater son, with the Earl ...

... AIR EDDIES Air Safety By Oliver Stewart As I write there appears to be a tendency at the Chicago Conference on Aviation to look more kindly on the Canadian proposals for the guiding international air transport in the future, although the Australian and New Zealand proposals have been rejected. The essential fact that, I think, ought be made clear to all the fifty-one delegations at the ...

... -^4 By Sabretache Datvn A MOST charming Voice recently informed the massed brains of the B.B.C. that that hour which finds the night at odds with the dawn, made its owner feel like nothing upon earth. This condition is by no means abnormal, for there are many to whom Dawn's Left Hand feels exactly like a wet fish, and who make no profession at all to be fit for human consumption until the ...

... By Elizabeth Bowen Happiness is an Odd Thing JANIE suddenly said, Do you think, Granny, that Great-Aunt Alice was ever happy? And Mrs. Parkington answered, No, my dear. And, after a moment, she said, Happiness is an odd thing. Perhaps people who have never known it are not really unhappy. I do not know whether Alice ever knew that she was unhappy. Sometimes I think only that life was ...

... THE BRITISH ARMY IN GERMANY ON THE ROAD BETWEEN GANGELT AND GEILENKIRCHEN, just before the capture of the latter town-- twelve British tanks take part in the great barrage put down on the German positions just across the border Geilenkirchen lies within the Reich, over 20 miles to the west of Cologne it was formerly a town of 20,000 people (of whom only 300 remain to-day), and had been ...

... HOW THE NEWEST V BOMB IS LAUNCHED, AND HOW IT TRAVELS TOWARDS THE STRATOSPHERE TO ITS OBJECTIVE. The bomb is launched straight upwards for a considerable distance it then speeds through the rarefied atmosphere at a colossal speed (estimated to be 3,000 m.p.h.) until near its objective in Britain, when the speed drops to an estimated 2,000 m.p.h., when it then begins to descend. At the highest ...