... 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 ...

... i. New Oxford Street, W.C.i. In Paris.-- In modern politics and diplomacy we have grown used to striking water in barren ground and finding unexpected snags where the going looked easy. So it may be that fruit and harmony will be harvested at the Paris Conference, where one expected at the start nothing but snags and disagreement. (We have been agreeably surprised.) To that Conference came ...

... TlIfTTHU?rTTW7?T Russia, in her search for oil, has been active of recent month both in the Middle East and Hungary, thereby causing a rise u the international temperature and adding to the complication confronting U.N.O. In Persia this quest for oil has been satisfies by the recent agreement between Moscow and Teheran, whereb; Russia will develop the region at the southern end of the Caspian ...

... 1J u ring the Russian occupation of Hungary, the oil-fields, which are very largely American financed, have been operated by the Russians in what is described as a wasteful and destructive fashion, and in the Hun garian-American Oil Com pany's fields it is known that the wells have suffered from a rapid wastage of gas. As a result, General wiinar lvey, united states memDor 01 tne Allied ...

... THE RETURN OF THE STATUES-- last the statues are beginning to come back to London. The pedestals are being shorn of their ugly brick surrounds, and one by one the familiar monuments are appearing in their accustomed places. The equestrian statue of King George III, the work of Matthew Wyatt, once again looks down on Cockspur Street, having returned to London from the wilds of Hertfordshire, ...

... EH ■I shares continued alter baste r, and the market received a further impetus when Sir Ernest Oppen- heimer publicly declared the im portance of the new gold-field in South Africa. It is thought that the mines of the Orange Free State may come in time to rival those of the Witwatersrand, and that a great new city may spring up to the south of Johannesburg. Much depends, of course, on future ...

... AMERICANA News-pictures from the U.S. A K.K.K. REVIVAL IN CALIFORNIA The remains of a fiery cross, symbol of the notorious Ku Klux Klan, which was burnt in the streets of Big Bear, California, as a warning to the intending seller of some property. The symbol was made of pieces of oil-soaked pipe BACK TO DUTY: The Scotland Light- i ship, after being on other duties during j the war, is now in ...

... HE WAYFARER 99 FLYING OVER JERSEY This aircraft brings Croydon Aerodrome within an hour's flight of the Channel Islands, and at the end of this month it inaugurates the new service. When this picture was taken the Wayfarer 99 was arriving at Jersey to participate in the ceremonies on the first anniversary of liberation from German occupation lie Bristol Wayfarer, one of the first of Britain's ...