... TT is unreasonable to expect to have men tied to farms at 70s. J- a week when they could go into other industries at nearly twice as much money. This statement is credited to Mr. A. C. Dann, General Secretary of the National Union of Agricultural Workers, who declared their complete dissatisfaction with the decision of the Agricultural Wages Board to reject the application of the unions for ...

... Hampshire Downs Lambing Starts Well in Mr. Benyon's Berkshire Flock THE New Year ushered in a busy season for shepherd Mitchell, who looks after the flock of pedigree Hampshire Down sheep belonging to Mr. H. A. Benyon, of Englefield, Lord Lieutenant of Berkshire. This flock is famous for its ram lambs, and has pro duced many notable sires. The flock con sists of tso breeding ewes, and the shep ...

... FIGHTING FROST How Damage may be Avoided or Mitigated UNTIL after the ferocious damage to crops as a result of frost in 1935, the English fruit-growers did little to Prevent a recurrence of such a catastrophe. In fact, all they did in that year was to discuss the problem. Prior to 1935, if a series of frosty nights came along as the apple blossom was out or the petals just falling, some ...

... Turn of the Yt| The Hunts begin to put their (id es behind them NORTH CORNWAI L Hounds met at the pretty wooded Blisland village green, Bodmin Moor. The huntsman is Will Graddon. The setting contrasts strangely with that of the East Cornwall meet, only a few miles away, shown below. EAST CORNWALL ^ama^ca ^nn> where the meet ivas held, is in the heart of Bodmin Moor. The Acting Master is Mr. ...

... TV/TISS F. M. PRIOR, known all over -l*-'- the bloodstock-breeding world, took over the Adstock Manor Stud Farm, Winslow, Bucks., on the death of her father, the famous racing historian and breeder, in the Spring of 1940. Although she is an experienced breeder and, in fact, a member of the Council of the Thoroughbred Breeders' Association, her best friends were surprised when she paid 7,200 ...

... RJ. NORTHCOTE- GREEN, St. Edward's School, Oxford, is or ganising an Oxford v. Cam bridge Past and Present match at Richmond on April 13. He invites any Old Blues who may wish to be con sidered for selection to send him their names Brig.-Gen. Marchant appeals to landlords of small inns and taverns to improvise maximum stabling accommodation to meet the 1946 Holidays on Horseback campaign The ...

... The Plough Before the Horse What Two-and-a-Half Horse-Power Can Accomplish HPHERE has been comment recently, in the House of Commons J- and elsewhere, that our agricultural implement firms are behind the times in ideas for machines to help the farmer and market gardener. To draw these invidious distinctions between our engineers and those of the United States seems unfair. The comments seem to ...

... Our Arable Land is it Losing its Fertility? WARNINGS have been uttered that, as a result of intensive wartime cropping, we may ultimately create dust- bowls in this country comparable with those of Kansas, Colorado and Oklahoma. These fears, we think, are groundless. The good farmer, somehow, has seen to it that there has been no appreciable loss of fertility on his farm. In a minority of ...

... METMORE The Versatility of a Lady Farmer METMORE is situated some six miles from Ludlow, Salop, yet all the farm land is actually within the borders of Herefordshire. In extent it covers some 420 acres, of which only 90 are at present under permanent grass. The land is un dulating, rising at places to 900 ft., at which level Mrs. Calvert finds her sheep do exceedingly well. The beef Shorthorn ...

... THE STAKES were divided for all six events, owing to the failing light. In the course, illustrated left, between Hobnail and Ali Baba, a third dog joined in the chase. MR. NOEL HARDY and Mrs. K. Shennan photographed together. THE BRAY STAKES: Mr. M. F. Horlock's Hughie leading Mrs. F. C. Maylam's First Mate. Later, Hughie beat Lundy's Lane in the first ties. GRAND STAND VIEW Major and Mrs. ...

... By THE syndication of the Aga Khan's two stallions, Stardust and Turkhan, following swiftly on that of the Aly Khan's Tehran, has been safely accom plished. The three horses, which between them won £20,821 in stakes, have been capitalised at £262,000. One cannot but congratulate their owners on having brought off so successful a series of flotations. io what extent the existing vogue for ...

... 1946 A Boom Year for British Golf TO-DAY is the first Friday in what will become the greatest year in the history of British golf. Mark my words! I need be no prophet to forecast this, for the evidence is already down on the calendar, and with the real 1939 quality golf ball promised for the Spring at the latest, surely nothing can now hold back the golf boom. Nineteen forty-five was a great ...