... THE problem of reducing the amount of damage caused by wireworms among crops is still taxing the ingenuity of the economic entomologists. The Ministry of Agriculture has, through the Advisory staffs of the provinces, carried out an elaborate census of the wireworm population in the superficial layers of the soil. With the aid of a separator which removes 95 per cent, of the larva, large areas ...

... AYRSHIRE cattle are increasing rapidly in popularity, largely owing to their hardiness and ability to do well on poor grass land. These characterisdcs, inherited from their northern ancestors, with a steady milk yield and a good butterfats percentage, have made the Ayrshire dairy cattle widely known and appreciated in England. Strains adapted to heavy land have been evolved and have extended ...

... First Steps in Market Gardening The Course Ends By Carola Cochrane ANY vegetable which imagines it will have a frame or bed to itself at Oaklands, the Hertfordshire Institute of Agriculture, is making a big mistake, for intercropping ruins all its chances of privacy. We have sown carrot-seed between the rows of lettuces, and it would be equally useless for the carrots to think that when the ...

... THE 'annual and well-nigh traditional Woodbridge Horse Show once again attracted huge crowds on Easter Monday. People came from all parts of East Anglia and beyond to witness the county's finest horses on parade, and did not return home disappointed. The highest honours for stallions fell almost exclusively upon the entries from Stody Farms of Melton Constable who really recorded some re ...

... THE long-awaited match between Great Britain and the Dominions a fixture only possible, perhaps, in wartime was an Easter attraction at Leicester and ended in a decisive victory for the Mother Country by 36 points to 13. It was, of course, a Services affair, and the fact unfortunately deprived the Dominions of a number of their best men. The British fifteen included a powerful Welsh contingent ...

... , , Brooke Marine When Freedom returns to the Estuary! NEW materials and methods will vitally influence the design and construction of post-war craft and BROOKE MARINE is already planning and designing on the basis of the rich experience of their war-time activities. Potential owners of craft of all classes are invited to contact BROOKE MARINE in a purely exploratory way; for it is widely ...

... SIBERIAN or, to be more precise, Barguzin sable fur invariably commands high prices on the markets all over the world. Until recently this was due, in the main, to the extreme difficulties and hazards of sable- hunting. However, not until the late 1920's did the idea of breeding these wild little animals on special farms occur to Soviet scientists, though it was then thought impossible to ...

... . THE Army met. the R.A.F. on the University College School Ground, Osterley Park, Mdx., a fortnight ago in their annual hoGkey match. On this occasion the R.A.F. won by 4 goals to 1, although the Army pressed hard throughout*the first half and looked likely winners. However, shortly before half-time the R.A.F. team came into their own and scored two goals in very rapid succession through ...

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... i 1 LINCOLNSHIRE RED SHORTHORN ASSOCIATION. of 60 FEMALES and 200 BULLS of this celebrated dual-purpose Breed on the WEST COMMON, LINCOLN FEMALES BULLS 25th April, 1945. 26th April, 1945. Judging at I p.m. Judging at 8.30 a.m. Sale immediately Sale at 10 a.m. after. The Ideal Breed for every need ALL animals have passed the Breed Lincoln Reds and thereby Tuberculin Test conform with the ...

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... THOUGH there was a great crowd at Wembley with Royal and other dis tinguished guests, the South Cup final last Satur day was but a poor shadow of the F.A. Cup finals of pre-war. Cup- tie fervour was missing. The crowd of 90,000 j was strangely quiet and subdued. This was not I war weariness the football was not up to the great occasion. The teams, too, were a strange mixture of imported ...