... Soutlidowns at Chichester Good Quality Entries at the Annual Show and Sale THE annual Show and sale of registered Southdown sheep at Chichester on August 16, attracted a good entry of about 300 Shearling rams and ram lambs and 1500 ewes and ewe lambs. A fair number of the lots were entered for show in six classes and for three challenge cups, the latter presented by Lady Fitzgerald for the two ...

... IN our issue of July 20 we pub lished pictures of Prince Charlie's country where 200 years ago he raised his standard and de clared war against I George the Second, Elector of Hanover. Here are pictures of the celebrations which have just been held to commemorate the Rising of 1745, I and at which High- I landers gathered again in force by the bright sunlit waters of Loch Shiel. WHERE 200 ...

... M\rshALI& SMELGROW M\RSttALl& SNELGROVE L ONDOU cJfie, Famous Name dor QuaCitt^ BELL BOY A new moiFeC frvnu OUR AUTUMN collection. of TA1LOH SUITS Moc/T Suit Sa['o)i. Ground] floor ...

... PRISCILLA IN PARIS Behind the Smiles D.O.A.H.-- One of you wrote me that the hot spell in England had come to an end with thunderstorms and ensuing coolness! We wish a little dampness would come our way. Last week-end I had to rush someone across France in a south-westerly direction, and we nearly died of the heat. The countryside is just one brown-coloured sizzle and, 'orrid detail, in ...

... Horse and Pony Show At Syston, Leicestershire Among the judges were Mr. Noel Wenman, Mr. W. A. Pugh, Major Cantrell-Hubbersly, Miss E. Morlev, Sir Berkeley Pigolt, Mr. R. Bromley and Capt. Howson Right Ringside seals were found by Sir W. Lindsay Everard, Lady Everard and Miss Audrey Coy Major G. A. Catley rode Gay Musketeer winner of the First Prize in Class 2 Lightweight Hunter The Marsh ...

... Weil-Known Irish Families Who Came to the Royal Dublin Society's Horse Jumping Competitions The Royal Dublin Society held a three-day fixture of Horse Jumping Competitions and Gymkhana events this year, as a substitute for the world-famous Horse Show. An unusually high standard of jumping was maintained for the three days, when a large crowd were kept agog with excitement by unusu ally fine ...

... ON AND OFF DUTY A Wartime Chronicle of Town and Country Opening of Parliament IT was by the happiest of coincidences that the day on which final victory was at last proclaimed should be that arranged for the State opening of the new Parliament: and both the King, who has never spoken more strongly or with greater feeling, and the Queen, who has surely never looked more regal and gracious, ...

... Arab Farmers in Palestine Modern Methods and Mechanisation THE Arabs have always been conservative in thei methods of agricultural practice and, until recen times, were content to follow the system that thei ancestors have used for centuries. But, encouraged \y the Palestine Government Department of Agriculture modern technique has been introduced and mechanisatioi encouraged on the larger ...

... IT is a curious co incidence that pictures appear in this current issue of yearlings, etc., from the great Yorkshire stud of Sledmere, and of the equally famous Eaton Stud in Cheshire. Doncaster, who was bred by Sir Tatton Sykes at Sledmere in 1870, became the sire of the immortal Bend Or, who stood at and is buried in the grounds at Eaton, and who founded the magnifi cent dynasty from which ...

... YOUNG FARMERS Two British Field Days Scottish Clubs show their skill at mechanics Four English Counties compete at stock- judging ASSEMBLING of Alfa Laval Milking Unit by Miss Rennie who won the event for the Loch Lomond Club. This Club won the day with the highest number of points and added lustre to the name of Modern Milk Maid. OWNERS AND JUDGES at The Uplands Ledbury Left to right sitting ...

... v Sledmere The Pride of Yorkshire THE history of Sledmere has been written in many books and continues to write itself. Before the war no racing writer of repute would dare go to the Doncaster Sales without professing to have some knowledge of the Sledmere yearlings, which always came up for sale on the Thursday morning in St. Leger week. It is unfortunate, so far as this journal is concerned, ...

... THE first big medal play tourna- men since 1939 (and let me remind readers that six years away from any job is a long time) was completed last week on the Hollingburg Golf Course, Brighton, when prize-money to the total of £1,500 was given by the News Chronicle. I havei never known of worse weather continuing during the whole period of any tournament. We have often had bad weather for one day, ...