... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... The Great Shorthorn Shov J at Perth I FROM THREE COUNTRIES The judges were Mr. R. K. Wright from North Ireland Mr. Charles Wyllie, from Argentina and Professor A. E. Darlotv who flew specially for the occasion from Oklahoma, U.S.A. CLUNY MARKSMAN: Calved April 14, 1945 and bred by Mrs. B. Hood Linzee Gordon, of Cluny Castle, Monymusk. First Prize winner in Class XIV. MR. DUNCAN STEWART'S ...

... BY OUR PARLIAMENTARY CORRESPONDENT Westminster, Monday, February 25. THE House of Commons to-day gave further expression to its approval of the Government's long-term agricultural policy, which was described by Mr. Tom Williams in his statement on November 15. There was, however, some criticism of the Government's failure to answer many of the questions put to them in the course of the closing ...