... Women j Power Town and Country Kitchen Planning NOW that the incomparable clean liness and convenience of power replaces elbow-grease and robots the vanished domestic staff, women everywhere take a keen in terest in the maintenance of their kitchen kit. Last week one hundred and fifty Electrical Housecraft Ad visers and senior saleswomen from all over Great Britain held a three day conference ...

... Wensleydale and Wharf edale By ASHLEY COLRTENAY THE normal route taken by motorists, southward bound from Penrith, is by Kendal, Lancaster and Preston, or via Brough and over Bowes Moor to Scotch Corner and thence down the Great North Road. Here is a pleasurable diversion for those who have time to amble and halt awhile. Good surfaced roads little frequented, fells, dales, and every now and ...

... TURKEYS are rather delicate-- they origin- ated in a warm climate-- and they are greedy feeders, needing plenty of fresh air and exercise with large quantities of succulent green food. The birds shown in the pictures were given a mash of roots mixed with kale, cabbage, waste potatoes, and other home- produced green crop plants. This mixture was cooked in large steam-heated tanks with a small ...

... PR A CT ICE Now they can slip collar, bridle and pad on the horse themselves without assist ance. The student is buckling the throat lash like an expert. PASSENGERS They thought it a great joke, when they were mere visitors, to travel in the farm catt around the grounds, and smiled a little self-consciously at the camera. WORKERS They appreciate the toughness of work with the farm cart and are ...

... THE remarkable war time developments of radio telephony (the original means of communication between pilots and their aerodromes) seems to offer considerable opportunities for use on the larger British farms. Certainly a great deal of interest is being shown in this means of communication overseas, and it is expected that it will be taken up on ranches, rubber plantations and large-scale wheat ...

... PUPPIES are now frequently given as Christmas presents, and are often acceptable. If one has the facilities and can spare the time to attend to them, much may be said in favour of getting puppies. The pleasure of watching their development is intensified by the intimate association that is formed. In the best sense, they become one of the family and exhibit an attachment for those who care for ...

... BRITAIN'S basic policy for 1946 was the maximum production of milk, based on grass feeding. Subsidiary objectives were mutton (grass fed) and poultry. This was forecast not only by official declarations but by progress reports for 1945 compared with 1946 figures. December returns (now available) show 5,000 more cows and heifers in milk and 34,000 more heifers in first calf, but the total dairy ...

... THE Suffolk Agricultural Association held its Annual Show on Tuesday, March 5, fol lowed, as usual, on the Wednesday, by the Sale. The two-year-old class of Suffolk stallions, for which the Suffolk Horse Society awarded a number of £25 premiums, received an entry of forty-four, out of a total of eighty-two. It will be noted that the Senior and Junior Champions were both bred by Sir Charles ...

... 'THE British Percheron Horse Society's Spring Stallion Show and Sale at Histon, Cambridge, was spread over two days and attracted 194 entries. The second day was devoted to the sale of mares, fillies, geldings and cross-breds. Neither the senior nor the junior champion was offered for sale, and there were no outstanding prices at the auction. One six-year-old Percheron stallion was sold for ...

... Production of Silico Phosphate at Rochester F*OR the first time in over 100 years phosphatic manure, in a new form, is being made in this country. At the Ministry of Supply factory, Crown Works, Rochester, silico phosphate production has practically concluded experimental stages and soon will be available generally to British farmers. Silico phosphate has a complex composition, and is somewhat ...

... Annual Sussex Bulls Sales 1,000 gn. Record at Exeter Champion withdrawn at Ashford THE ninety-fifth Show and Sale of tuberculin-tested pedigree Devon bulls, held under the auspices of the Devon Cattle-Breeders' Society, at the Cattle Market, Exeter, recently, was very well attended. The quality of the bulls was very high, and there were very few plain animals. Of the 123 head on offer, only ...

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