... BY OUR HORTICULTURAL CORRESPONDENT IT is not often nowadays that the food grower fails to pay attention to the essentials of garden craft; after six years of advice and guidance from all quarters, -everyone who gives gardening a serious thought knows that he must dig deeply, manure adequately, prepare seed beds thoroughly, sow thinly, keep the hoe going, etc. But after doing all these things ...

... V7ACHTIXG on Windermere has been happily resumed, under the auspices of the Royal Windermere Yacht Club. The Susan Crossley Trophy attracted only five competitors, owing to the blustering wind. The winner was Mr. W. B. Smith's Caprice (No. 15) No. 27 is Mr. C. W. R. Carey's Musetta. Below is a picture in a typical North Lancashire setting, taken near Grange-over-Sands. ...

... LADIES1 DAY AT EPSOM Her Majesty the Queen with the Duchess of Norfolk, stood at the jockeys' gate awaiting the return from the course of the Oaks runners. The Princess Elizabeth is next to the King, who is talking to Lord Rosebery the Duke of Norfolk is on the extreme right of the party. THE OAKS WINNER, Sir Alfred E Smith). Major Holliday's Nelia) on the rails. Iona ivas in the lead i. the ...

... THE British Friesian Cattle Society, one of the most progressive of the great breed societies in the country, continues to encourage its members to produce stock of the highest grade. The rewards of the good breeder are very considerable, although it is not everyone who can take a 14-months-old bull to market and sell him for 4,000 guineas. This was the price realised at Reading on November 7 ...

... Mr. H. A. Benyon of Englefield, Reading, has just won the Hampshire Downs Open Flock Competition with these 500 ewes. I I AMPSHIRE Downs, which have won such a good name for themselves all over the world, are a very docile breed. Ncne the less thece pictures are a triumph of photographic and shepherding skill. Mr. Eric Guy of Reading was the photographer. Mr. Benyon's 153 ewe lambs. t. The 179 ...

... THERE was close com petition among the entries, totalling over 150, at the Hereford Herd Book Society's Show and Sale of bulls at Hereford, the Championship eventu ally going to the winner of this summer's Warwick shire County Champion ship. The Reserve Champion also came from Warwickshire. Four animals sold for 500 guineas and over, 124 averaging ^118 9s. At the sale of females on the ...

... By Our Horlicullural Correspondent MORE and more large private gardens are being commercialised. The chances of a return to the good old days when the cost of gardening was one of the least important considerations are about as remote as a return to income tax at 2s. in the £, and property owners in increasing numbers, are compelled to seek a way out of the difficulty. In an endeavour to ...

... From Our Parliamentary Correspondent MR. TOM WILLIAMS was quick off the mark with the first of the two agricultural Bills which were pro mised in the King's Speech opening the new session of Parliament. On the second day of the session he presented the Agricultural Wages (Regulation) Bill which transfers permanently to the Agricultural Wages Boards for England, Wales and Scotland the wage ...

... The Greyhound Ousts the Pig A Great Gold Rush is Sweeping All Ireland -pHOUGH our readers are not particularly interested in the sport of greyhounds chasing electrically-operated hares, the effect that this post-war craze for gambling on dogs and football pools is having is of interest. Sums which make the wildest betting on the race-course and at a coursing meeting look like chicken feed, ...

... National Recreation Centre Training at Historic Bisham Abbey THE recent launching of the National Sports Development Fund by the Central Council of Physical Recreation brings into prominence an ancient house of the Knights Templar, Bisham Abbey, in Berkshire. Through the generosity of its owner, Miss P. Vansittart Neale, Bisham Abbey has been lent to the Central Council of Physical Recreation ...

... By a Special Correspondent THE Druid's Lodge Meeting held on Mr. Rank's property on October 31 and November 1 provided some of the best coursing for years past. On the first day no fewer than fifty-one courses were run off between 10.20 a.m. and 2 o'clock. Leslie Reynolds, the slipper, performed with great skill the difficult task of getting some inexperienced puppies away well. Owing to the ...

... by A. CROXTON SM1T11 IT is good news to know that dogs are being added to the strength of the Metropolitan Police, six Labradors now being attached to a division in West London. A police sergeant and five constables, who have undergone special instruction, will work them. The dogs have had a training extending over two months at the Metropolitan Police College, Imber Court, Thames Ditton, the ...