... 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 ...

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... T^egistered y -f reat(jrree£>nnsfi A 2,000 Gallon Jl 0 4% B.F. HEIFER F. it S. Photo. The number of Pedigree British Friesian Cows with yields of 50 tons in a lifetime is greater than those of all other breeds together. PERFORMANCE IS PROOF ALDWYCH HOUSE. ALDWYCH, LONDON W.C.2. PHONE: HOLBORN 668O ...

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... A MONG its many activities, the National Institute of Agricultural Engineering at Askham Bryan even includes research upon the time-hallowed plough. Here are two new ideas from the Institute which are being developed to aid the farmer. The Wavy Disc IN attempts to overcome the difficulties of ploughing-in straw left behind the combine, the Institute has hit on a simple modification to the disc ...

... BY THE OFFICER COMMANDING AN ARMY DEVELOPMENT FARM THE pig in India, as far as the average Indian farmer is concerned, has never in the real sense been reared for food. True, most villages contain a herd of pigs, but they are seldom properly housed or fed, and they simply run wild, eat what they can find on the village refuse dumps, and have inbred to such an extent that a fully grown pig is ...

... The Colorado Beetle A World Potato Pest Which Must Never Become Established Here OF all pests, the Colorado Beetle is the one we most fear, for it can adapt itself to different climatic conditions, and once established in a country is almost im possible to eradicate. This insect, with its distinctive black and yellow stripes, was formerly restricted to a semi-desert region of the Western U.S.A ...