... SKELTON, Cumberland, is a village so small that one can pass through it without knowing, but it possesses an energetic farming committee that many a large town would envy. This committee organise the principal ploughing contest in the North, and these pictures show some of the winners of this year's event which brought a large and critical crowd. Excitement ran high as the allotted time ran ...

... Young Farmers' New Interest The Attractions of Forestry UP to the present, Young Farmers' Clubs have concentrated chiefly on livestock and general farming, but in West Sussex, members are acquiring a keen interest in Forestry as well. Before the war our two milhon acres of woodland produced only 4 per cent, of the timber used in the country, but now we plan to raise the area under forests to ...

... To Troops far from Home A Happy Christmas TO the many men and women in the Services who are far away at this time we send good wishes and the hope that this will be their last Christmas from home. Some will be in lands where bananas and oranges are ten a penny and strange sights are common under a scorching sun. Others will have a white Christjnas and a struggle to keep warm. But all will have ...

... -For Jim, Mary and the many other boys and girls who particularly like the pictures of animals in this paper [FOAL Wild horses had to depend upon their speed and hoofs to defend themselves from other animals so the baby horse is born with long legs ready to run away from danger with his mother. Till their first birthday, they are called foals then the boys become colts and the girls fillies. ...

... k 1 1HE family of Vice-Admiral Sir Henry Rawlings, K.C.B., O.B.E., has an unusual pet in a buzzard named Belinda. This magni ficent bird has been trained at their Cornish home at Lancarffe, Bodmin, and its present tameness is due, to a large extent, to the patience of Simon, Lady Rawling's elder son. DIGNIFIED defiance A strik ing portrait of Belinda, showing her lovely plumage. SAFETY FIRST ...

... WHETHER you are taking a country-cousin peep at a long awaited show or paying an annual visit to a pantomime with the children you should see about your tickets at once. London is relaxing this Christmas, and the only sad fact about theatreland is that admission must be limited to the seating capacity of the houses. As regards clothes, the proposal that the few front rows of the stalls should ...

... Maintaining a Tradition British Friesians Again Command Fabulous Prices BY virtue of the prices recorded at the corresponding British Friesian Sales during the past few years, it is now taken quite for granted that bids will soar to astronomical levels for the high-class stock invariably entered. Last year the late Mr. A. Weightman's bull Herrington Cornesleo, established a breed record of ...

... Readers searching our pages this week for j pictures of the latest tractors and the inevitable 1 Cattle Shows may reproach us for any levity they may find on this frontispiece or elsewhere. Yet who, at this season, would not dwell for a moment on memories of the Pin-up Girls of fifty years ago Our grandfathers read this paper from cover to cover, though Sporting and Dramatic' was classed by ...

... TWICKENHAM ROYAL INTEREST The Varsity Rugby match returns to Twickenham after seven long years, and the occasion is honoured by the presence of the King and Queen and Princess Elizabeth. With the Queen is Mr. J. P. London, of Oxford University, and on the Princess's left is Dr. Windsor Lewis, the old Cambridge Plue and Welsh International, who helps to identify the players. THE PERFECT SETTING ...

... Craftsman in Iron A Berkshire Blacksmith's Artistry at the Anvil WORKING at full pressure on horse-shoeing and the nor mal routine repairs inevitably piled on to the resourcefulness of the village smithy, that most versatile tradesman of the countryside the blacksmith has to make time if he wishes to keep in his hand at the highly-skilled ornamental work in wrought iron, of which innumerable ...

... RECIPE FOR A P I E 20 lb. butter, 4 geese, 2 turkeys, 2 rabbits, 2 curlews, 4 wild duck, etc. LATELY I have been talking with some of the old folks of these parts, willing enough raconteurs of the revels and festivities of their younger days, some 50 or more years ago. They have not failed to lay stress on the merriment that they con trived, perforce, to make for themselves when the only ...

... 1 I 0 to dream, 0 to awake and wander There, and with delight to take and render, Through the trance of silence, Quiet breath mS R. L. Stevenson I ,o W u> It WW K^:::^^roai' G^5is,° r^JJ- ,T;io iff.).^ foo-e 000^C- D^d pi* Inver;°>ySab^a- LOCH PYNF, nnrf the surrounding Argyllshire mountains. The car is being driven in the direction of Inveraray and Campbeltown. ,d i i i Aft EXQUISITE ...