... HOW lovely the old course at St. Andrews looked last week! I had not seen it for over six years and had been looking forward to playing on this wonderfully exciting course once more-- and I did get in one round. Nothing seemed to have changed, the same old grey town the rust red Grand Hotel, now being cleaned up by German prisoners who kept peep ing out of windows at the mysterious rites going ...

... ABOUT 9000 head of sheep including many of the best-known down, hill and long-wooled breeds came under the hammer at the popular Findon Fair, held annually in West' Sussex. Apart from being invariably an object-lesson in what can be done in the way of high-speed auctioneering Messrs. H. T. Burt conducting the sale with exemplary efficiency the fair has developed into an event of great social ...

... Home of the Eastleach Herds of British Friesians and Wessex Saddlebacks ONE of the most progressive agriculturists in the Cotswolds is Mr. F. J. Honour, of Manor Farm, Eastleach, near Lechlade, Glouces tershire. In all, Mr. Honour farms about 3,000 acres, and his farms are fitted out accord ing to the most modern ideas. Practically all the corn is combined, and the three large Massey-Harris ...

... Herefords at Kington Quality Animals on Show ALTHOUGH the Kington, Hereford, Show provided classes for sheep, horses (including hunters and ponies), and other livestock, pride of place was not unnaturally accorded to the famous county breed of cattle, familiarly known as Whitefaces. Of these there was a large and most select entry, judged by Mr. Stafford Weston and Mr. Cecil H. Evans, both of ...

... U ISLE OF WIGHT The start of the Cowes-Dinard race the first ocean-going race held in the U.K. since the outbreak of the war. There were eight entrants, and the winner was Mr. H. F. Ashby's 21 -ton Bermu- dian Cutter Mary Bower. MORECAMBE A lovely display of high diving at the Bathing Pool. The top man is a Polish airman, his three fellow acrobats being local schoolboys. GOSHEN, New York A ...

... BY THERE is considerable cause for satis faction in the nature and results of the September Yearling Sales, recently concluded at Newmarket. The prices paid yielded big profits to breeders and the market was strong enough to absorb more than 90 per cent, of the 340-odd lots offered, the great proportion of which will stay in this country. Buyers thus demonstrated their faith m the prospects of ...

... By Land Agent I RECEIVED a letter the other day from an old friend, announcing that his chief was staying in my neighbourhood, that he knew nobody, was very keen on ento mology (or so I deciphered his writing), and would I show him what attention I could? Accordingly, presenting myself a day or so later at the local inn, I was agreeably sur prised to find a pleasant, scholarly-looking man, ...

... by Afywt THE 1945 Flat Racing Season, which ended at Newmarket last week, was a very enjoyable season, whether it produced good horses or bad ones. I am inclined to think that, on the whole, the crop was a good one. It is reasonable to suggest that Dante and Court Martial, the two outstanding colts, were well up to, if not above, classic standards; the same may be said of the two fillies, Sun ...

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... Transatlantic Eattle The One Hundred Years Struggle lor North American Passenger Supremacy By Warren Armstrong WAR had ended. Like a huge pall depression was settling over Europe, and a great trek westwards began with a few hundred despairing outcasts and homeless who set out seeking new fortune in that much-promised Eldorado far across the North Atlantic; it was to grow from a trickle to an ...

... is J nMBMMMnaRVnmnRBMBNnraMMMSBHMMnBBMBnnHMMSn I 1. Frost-covered spider's web demonstrating a remarkable degree of elasticity and strength 2. A winter Arcady by a Yorkshire stream 3. A woodland in winter's mantle at Oxshot, Surrey ...

... Halibut Interlude Twenty- four Hours In The Adventurous Life Of A Sea- Monster By William MacMillan HILDA was a halibut, not just an ordinary, run-of-the- mill flounder that the name probably conjures up in your mind, but a bulky, seven-foot fish, some four feet in width, weighing a couple of hundred pounds and, to the casual eve at any rate, as flat as the proverbial pancake. She hadn't ...