... HIGHLY as our sugar beet industry is organised, its importance is such that the Ministry of Agriculture, in agree ment with the Ministry of Food, has decided to send a mission to North America to study the progress which has been made there in research and development. The suggestion originated from Professor Bainer of the University of California, Davis, U.S.A., who recently visited this ...

... Keen Bidding for Red Polls The Popularity of Dual-purpose Cattle THE Autumn Show and Sale of Red Polls, at Reading Cattle Market, went with a swing. Attendance was good, and the bidding particularly for attested cattle was spirited. From the start when Bromborough Estates went to 320 guineas for Captain Richardson's very fine cow, Seven Springs Quinoa it was obvious that all was set for a good ...

... Staggering Bids for Cheviot Rams Border Leicesters Disappoint THE reputation of the Cheviot already so securely estab lished in the northern areas of England, and throughout Scotland was further enhanced by the enormous prices recorded for the breed at the annual sale at Lockerbie. Mr. J. Beattie, of Eskdalemuir, whose stock is a byword to Northern sheep farmers, offered several lots with ...

... Cubbing and Driving In the Home Counties THE Old Berkeley Hunt (East) held a cubbing meet for members of the Pony Club only, at Solesbridge Mill, near Chorley Wood, on the Bucks-Hertfordshire border. The country, a very popu lar rambling ground for Londoners, affords plenty of good riding, although there is overmuch wood land for hunting. The Master, Major S. G. R. Barratt, was assisted by Mrs ...

... BROOKE MARINE combine a long experi ence of boat-building with a very progressive and receptive attitude towards modern trends in design and the use of new materials. Above all they study the Owner's desi re for bet ter perform ance, greater comfort at a reasonable cost, and these advantages are con spicuous in the BROOKE i MARINE craft now being planned. This 9-ton 35 footer is suitable for ...

... Dame Irene Vanbrugh, the celebrated stage and screen actress came with Sir Pelham Warner, who retires this month from his duties as deputy secretary of the M.C.C. Noel Coward's Sigh No More Mr. Henry Channon, M.P. for Southend-on-Sea, who married Lady Honor Guinness the Earl of Iveagh's elder daughter, in 1933, sat next to Mrs. Corrigan Lady Windermere' s Fan, Revived by John Gielgud Lady ...

... PRISCILLA II PARIS Fun of the Fair D.O.A.H.-- When I want to forget all my unimportant, nagging little worries-- the lack of new stockings, a dearth of darning cotton to mend those that still survive, a bitter longing for butter, the difficulty in finding decent face cream for the old phiz, the ever- present knowledge that there is something extremely rotten in the state of-- (never mind which ...

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... AIR EDDIES By Oliver Stewart Prestige and Private Flying THERE will be little chance of aviation being turned to peaceful purposes until there is a change in the distribution of prestige between military aircraft and civil aircraft. I notice the patronizing way in which Government officials and even manufacturers look upon small, low-powered, light aeroplanes and the awe with which they regard ...

... KODAK HOUSE KINGSWAY LONDON W.C.2 F.3IF is still in short supply, so please make the most of it KODAK FILM By the way Make a point of holding the camera level if you tilt it up or down perspective becomes distorted. If, at close range, part of your subject is much nearer the camera than the rest, then that part will come out relatively much bigger, giving the sort of distorted result shown in ...

... Jill Hulbert is the eighteen' year-old daughter of Claude Hulbert and his actress-wife Enid Trevor. She was photographed out side her parents London home in Sydney Place Left Deborah Kerr, the young British actress, is to marry SfLdr. Anthony Bartley, D.F.C. eldest son of Sir Charles and Lady Bartley, of Swanbourne Bucks. SJLdr. Bartley is credited with at least eight enemy planes shot down in ...