... FEW Sports Meetings have rivalled-- in surprise and excitement-- the Oxford and Cambridge post-war revival at the White City last Saturday. The track was heavy and the time slow, but who cared? The announcement of a record for J. P. S. Gibson's 1 ft. victory over J. W. E. Mark in the half mile or M. N. Green's inches win in the mile against J. C. E. Wilson would merely have refined-- for the ...

... BY THE National Hunt Season has been so good and so interesting almost from its commencement in October that it is the Grand National and not the opening of the Flat Racing Season which is getting all the limelight. The Grand National is to be run at Aintree, Liverpool, on Friday next, and appearances are that there will be a big field. Acceptances were due to be published last Wednesday. No ...

... By RAYMOND BUSH LAST summer I took a friend of mine from the south-west, who has a pretty good garden, to see some fruit farms. He needed cheering, for the blizzard and cold snap at the end of April had hit his part of the country hard. He told me that unless he could buy some fruit somewhere he saw little prospect of any jam in the store cup board. He evidently thought that 1 was deep in the ...

... ENGLAND'S great recovery in the second half of a game full of excitement was the highlight of the England v. Scotland match at Twickenham. At half-time the Scots were leading by eight points to nil, but the spectators were treated to a complete transformation shortly afterwards, and the English team won by a placed goal, a dropped goal and penalty goal to a placed goal and a try 12 points to 8 ...

... RECORD U.S. CELERY CROP FROM OUR PARLIAMENTARY CORRESPONDENT Westminster, Monday March 25. SOME interesting figures relating to the financial affairs of the National Stud since 1916, when it was established, are given in a report presented recently to the House of Commons by the Comptroller and Auditor-General, Mr. G. C. Upcott. The report shows that the net accumulated trading profit from ...

... WITH the world food shortage the most urgent problem of the new year, perhaps it is as well that there is a paper shortage. There is no evidence that the Ministry of Agriculture, the N.F.U. (chivalrously acquitting the past and present Governments of blame for what, in the main, is the result of the world crop failures), or other agricultural organisations are short of it. Exhortations to grow ...

... Tanks to Plougjis BRITISH manufacturers, since the autumn of last year, have had difficulties which American producers never had to face or were able to put behind them on VJ-Day. This is particularly true of the agricultural implement industry. In the States this production never had to close down indeed, it was increased through the huge orders from Britain and Russia. The actual weapons of ...

... SUTTON'S READING SUTTON'S READING FOR ALL FARM SEEDS Wrife (or a copy of SUTTON'S FARMERS' YEAR BOOK for 1946 FREE ON REQUEST J ...

... 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 ...