... RAT IN foreshadows the doom of RATS The operators of the British Ratin Company know all about rats and their filthy and destructive habits. They believe that the only good rat is a dead rat. A belief that foreshadows the doom of rats wherever they may be found if the British Ratin operators are given the opportunity to get at them. The surveyors and operators of the Ratin Service are highly ...

... THE Derby Luncheon at the London Press Club was held again on Monday, I for the first time since 1939. Lord Derby was unable to be present to reply to the toast To the Pious Memory of the Founder of the Derby Stakes, but his grandson, Lord Stanley, contributed in an amusing speech to the success of the occasion. Lord Stanley and Lord Derby's jockey, Harry Wragg, made little attempt to conceal ...

... THE King and Queen and the Princesses accompanied their visitors over the Windsor Farms and showed them the famous Scottish Beef Shorthorns, a herd of which has been maintained on the Royal farm since 1853, Dairy Shorthorns, Aberdeen Angus and Jerseys. The farmers were taken for a stroll round the piggeries and were also given an opportunity of seeing poultry and sheep and inspected the crops ...

... CEVERAL price records for Australia were established at the Beef Cattle Show at Sydney recently, when total sales of all breeds amounted to £55,129 for 299 head, as compared with £60,418 for 326 last year. There was a good demand for high- quality animals. Among the shorthorns, Mr. D. R. McCaughey's bull Coonong, by a son of Calrossie Red Baronet, was awarded the championship, but was not ...

... Food, Clothes, Cc ii oii and Shelter Plants of Great Economic Uses Gi r\ wii at Cambridge Botanic Gardens FEW of the thousands of Londoners taking a stroll round Kew Gardens in the spring and summer realise that these famous gar dens do not exist solely to give pleasure to the public, and that the experimental and research work carried out there by the staff of botan ical experts is of benefit ...

... By THE Derby, to be decided at Epsom on Wednesday, June 5th, is providing some unusual problems. Not the least of them is the handling of the huge crowds which will certainly attend it. Racing is enjoying a boom such as it has never known before, and the police and other authorities concerned will have their hands more than full to deal with the traffic and the feeding of the multitudes. ...

... By A. CROXTON SMITH ON a Wednesday recently the Dachshund Club held its victory championship show in the London Scottish Drill Hall, Buckingham Gate, London, with that accomplished breeder, Major P. C. G. Hayward, judging the dogs and Mrs. L. Cecil Wright the bitches. Apart rrom a suostanuai entry or over ooo several features of interest call for comment. One of the first things that impressed ...

... THE late harvest meant a correspondingly late start for cubbing in most areas, but now, with the opening of the season proper, some 200 hunts in Britain are beginning their activities in earnest. Many of the younger Masters and hunt servants have returned from military service, many new faces are seen in the field and the co-operation of the British farmer without which hunting would be ...

... j i THE sum of 1,000 guineas was paid for a bull, a second prize winner, at the two-day show and sale of Dairy Shorthorns at Reading. Top price for females on the first day was 360 guineas, 59 pedigree females averaging £168 7s. 2d., and three grading register females, £114 2s. Among the many buyers were several from Northern Ireland, including representatives from the Ulster Dairy School and ...

... THE third Annual Show and Sale of Pedigree Shire Foals and Shire Mares and Fillies was held on Haydock Park Racecourse (Lanes.) under the organising body's curious title National Pedigree Shire Foal Produce Stakes. It was an excellent Show, well supported by a large com mittee and backed by sixteen patrons and eighty- three vice-presidents. Twenty-four entries were catalogued in the colt foal ...

... LAWN TENNIS AN E SQUASH: Angela Denin Cheltenham and St. Hilda's u captain of both teams. LAWN TENNIS R. W. Baker (Tasmania and Lincoln is a Rhodes Scholar reading Law. RUGBY FOOTBALL John Oswald Newton Thompson Stellenbosch University and Trinity), an ex-Fighter Pilot in S.A.A.F. Got his rugger blue as a Freshman and his cricket blue last June. CROSS COUNTRY Eric Mackay (Uppingham and Wadham) ...

... Restoration of the Guildford club when the premises were no longer required to be used as a barrage balloon factory is a triumph. It is a triumph over a supply order that could not permit wood to be used for the work as well as for the Surrey smith whose hand wrought the iron artistically fashion ing the interior and the front door. Behind the ironwork of the front door is a glass panel, lit ...