... 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 ...

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... Miwel/s OF PERTH m. Miwells OF PERTH tT 1 ALTHOUGH high-grade shoes are restricted, Norwell's may still be able to help you. Write to-day your enquiries will have the personal attention of The man behind the boot. NORWELL'S PERTH FOOTWEAR PERTH, SCOTLAND. TRUST THE MAN BEHIND THE BOOT ...

... SPARE A LITTLE PITY S Are we not a little too sorry for oui> B selves as individuals Think of the Civil Servants having to answer all those Q forms we send in and some of your H returns are not too simple to understand 9 J. S. Dodd delighted the farmers with I this sally and then in serious mood Trade, industry and commerce joint prosperity with a chance for all. And for the growing interest ...

... THE Minister's recent declaration of Government policy, delivered before Norfolk farmers and farm workers was comprehensive, encouraging, and in parts instructive. It was, however, directed primarily to our internal affairs His reference to world affairs was tempered by his obvious inability, at the present stage, to say: We must in future buy so much wheat from Russia and Canada, so much beef ...

... SNOW-COVERED PASTURES By the middle of January there is little enough for stock to eat on the pastures. When this gets a covering of snow and ice, cattle will be grateful enough for just plain straw to eke out their modest rations. THESE DAIRY COWS, who get a good feed of concentrates when they come in for milking, are quite happy but there are many miserable animals at this time, particularly ...

... A Shropshire Herd of Red Polls Sir Edward Hanmer's Characteristic Stock IN Sir Edward Hanmer, Bart., the Red Poll Cattle Society, with its large and ever-increasing body of members, can boast of a President who, as an extensive landowner, takes an active interest in agriculture, but more particularly in stock-breeding, and has been the means of greatly extending the influence of these dual- ...

... Silk Production in a Monastery New Irish Venture A YOUNG monk, working in an enclosed monastery where women are for bidden, and an Englishwoman who has made sericulture her career are col laborating in the first real effort to estab lish the production of silk as a staple industry in Eire. Britain's first pioneer in sericulture, Lady Hart Dyke, of Lullingstone Castle, Kent, where, long before ...

... Experiments in the Republic of Kazakhstan, situated in the south western regions of the U.S.S.R., have been directed to the establishment of a breed of fine-wool sheep. Kazakhstan is a vast country of 1,056,000 square miles c.f England and Wales total area 58,343 square miles), stretching west to east from the lower reaches of the Volga to the Altai Hills and north and south from Outer ...