... 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 ...

... GERMANY MISSING POLISH-JEWS TURN UP IN BERLIN'S AMERICAN ZONE after disappearing from the Russian Zone, following the threat to send them to the Russian camp at Prenzlau. The Americans immediately arranged for their billeting A HAVEN FOR WANDERERS Polish Jews being registered and issued with food, billeting and blanket cards, on arrival in the American Zone of Berlin. On pages 1 14-15 of this ...

... RISEN ON THE SCENE OF A GREAT CONFLICT This group of new classroom buildings has been erected at University City, on the outskirts of Madrid, to take the place of those destroyed during the Civil War, when the University area was in the front line for over a year UNIVERSITY CITY COMES BACK TO LIFE The battle-scarred Agricultural College (on left) is now undergoing repairs, while the Faculty of ...

... AS soon as a modern world war stops, Man proceeds to run over his weapons, discarding some and entering up others, novelties, in his armoury, which has the parallel effect of altering the constitution of the armed forces. In 1919 the great newcomers were the aeroplane and the tank, and these in due course combined to produce the revolutionary blitz warfare that had been foreseen. Now, in 1946, ...

... With a million people on strike, the industrial position in the United States was the subject of world concern last week, and although the telephone workers eventu ally went back pending further negotiations, the meat, electrical and motor industries continued to be vitally affected. Fears of a meat famine following the nation wide strike of 300,000 packers, led to a run on butchers' shops, ...

... THE ITALIAN BLACK MARKET IN ACTION Half-a-mile out in Naples Bay the illicit traders bring their boats alongside the Liberty ship James H. Kimball. The black marketeers find it highly profitable to waylay incoming vessels, and by means of a bucket and rope money and goods are exchanged between ship and rowing-boat. Cigarettes bought from crew or passengers at 50s. the carton will fetch as ...

... This has been a wild winter on the high seas, and from both the North and South Atlantic Oceans have come strange tales of gales and tempests of shattering force. One of the latest victims is the Portu guese schooner Cidade do Porto, which during December was bound from Lourenco Marques, Portuguese East Africa, with I 5,500 tons of coal for Lobito Bay, I Angola, the journey taking her through ...