... J FOR generations the earth's green mantle was taken for granted by farmers-- the gift of a beneficent Nature and a humid climate which was provided for the exclusive use of livestock. It is true that the best farmers paid considerable attention to maintaining their grassland in first-class con dition, and periodical dressings of basic slag-- or other phosphates-- together with lime, and ...

... To Farmers and Farm Workers A New Year Message from the Minister of Agriculture \A/E enter the New Year with confidence and hope. But we are still at war no relaxation must postpone the day of victory. CORTUNATELY the war time tasks ahead will serve also the cause of agriculture in peace. These tasks are to improve and expand our livestock industry and to establish on every farm a proper ...

... THE Buckeye Trencher, although it has been in use for some time in this country, is probably new to many of our readers. It is 30 ft. long and is powered by a 72-h.p. 6-cylinder Diesel engine. A most interesting point is that it has twelve different gear speeds, five of which are used when the machine is travelling along roads and the other seven while digging. On the road it has a maxi mum ...

... Three Weil-Known Southern Packs DURING the penultimate week of the old year before the frost came down and put a much-resented stop to the time-honoured Boxing Day,.' meets, three celebrated and old established packs held important meets within a few days of each other in two adjacent counties. The Crawley and Horsham met at Swains, Partridge Green, Horsham, Sussex, the lovely home of Mr. J. ...

... , , The Brooke Super Twin-screw Motor Cruiser has an overall length of 4 feet and a draught of feet 6 inches aft. The engines two 120 h.p. Gray marine engines give a speed of approximately 18 knots. State Room, Aft Cabin and Saloon give luxurious accommodation for five people. Well- appointed Galley. Six foot bead-room throughout. BROOKE1 MARINE has the outlook of the younger generation j m B ...

... STARTING his herd in 1923, with the proven and favourite Bruchag strain of Ayrshire cattle, Mr. Dugald Mackay, of Symonds Hyde, Hatfield, Herts now vice-president of the Ayrshire Cattle Herd Book Society has gradually built up one of the largest and finest pedigree attested herds of the breed. As one of the foremost and earliest Ayrshire enthusiasts in England (Mr. Mackay himself comes from ...

... OLD FAITHFUL The Reliable Shorthorn as Popular as Ever THE Annual Autumn Show and Sale of Dairy Shorthorns, or ganised (by the Shorthorn Society) for October 31 and November I and postponed (by Foot and Mouth) until November 15 and 16, suffered very little -if at all by the enforced delay. Both days the first for females, followed by the bulls on the second were extraordinarily successful, ...

... WILD-FOWLING is another Nor folk attraction providing the I professional gunner with duck for sale and the amateur with good sport and something for the pot. It is perhaps the most strenuous sport in the country and only attracts certain people, but once a wild-fowler always a wild-fowler, and the devotee will leave any other form of shooting for an evening on the marshes. At partridge and ...

... BY OUR PARLIAMENTARY CORRESPONDENT Westminster, Monday November 19. MEMBERS of both Houses continue to emphasise the seriousness of the rural housing problem and the effect which a prolonged shortage is likely to have upon our future food production. The Government are urged to take a long- term view and to realise that unless the housing situation in the countryside is restored, the drift of ...

... (Left) THE COWLEY NOVICES' HURDLE brought out the biggest field of the afternoon. The hurdles at the first flight pre sented no difficul ties to the leaders I whether novices or otherwise. One horse in the pic ture evidently had the idea that he was at Aintree THE UNTRUTHFUL CAMERA If, as the picture suggests, Mr. D. Goulding's Filum had crossed his fore-feet at the last flight of the Cowley ...

... AN EPSOM DERBY FOR 1946 The December Sales by RACING is getting into its stride again more quickly than was generally expected. It was great news that the 1946 Grand National was to be decided at Aintree. It is greater news still that the 1946 Derby is to be run at Epsom. Will Doncaster bring off the treble by staging the first real post-war St. Leger on Town Moor r 1 he tact that the ...

... By A. CROXTDN SMITH GOING to dog shows again, as it was in 1920, is an experience that calls for a complete re adjustment of one's mental outlook. For six years most of us have been living on a different plane, brain and body being occupied with work out side our usual avocation. Now we are engaged m the contradictory pro cesses of forgetting and remembering forgetting the anxieties and ...