... 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 ...

... HENRY COTTON'S truly remarkable play in the Star Tournament at Wentworth has aroused new hope for British glf. We had heard so much of the prowess of the Americans, Byron Nelson and others, that many felt that we might never be able to catch up with the new American standards. Now, Cotton, who by his articles, criticisms and Red Cross matches kept the game alive during the war, has given ...

... Tarrington Stock Wins Hereford Herd Book Society Show FENHAMPTON BOMBER, a grandson of the well-known Tarrington Broadside, won the championship at the Hereford Herd Book Society's two-day April Show and Sale. The Reserve Champion was also of Tarrington descent. The highest price paid at the sale was 450 guineas, but there was a strong demand for promising bulls bordering on the three-figure ...

... THERE were some good-quality repre sentatives of the breed at the Red Poll Cattle Society's Spring Show and Sale, and several of them were sold for prices around the 250-guinea mark. The judges were assisted in their tasks by members of Young Farmers' Clubs. Future farmers and stockowners are gaining valuable knowledge by working with their more experienced elders in this way. YOUTH AND ...

... Lincoln Red Shorthorns Cropwell Herd's Successes MR. E. L. PENTECOST'S Cropwell herd was prominent among the successful entries at the Lincolnshire Red Shorthorn Association's Show and Sale at Lincoln. Cropwell Cameron won the championship for bulls, and Cropwell Caitiff 2nd was runner-up to the former in the class for bulls calved between August 1 and December 31, 1944, in which there were ...

... Planning How Best to Feed the World Farmers from 26 Nations Meeting in London FARMERS from all over the world will meet for the first time when the International Conference of Agricul tural Producers opens at Church House, Westminster on May 21. The chief object of the conference will be the formation of an International Federation of Agricultural Producers and the working out of a suitable ...

... -J? .-1 WwV,^ THE seventeenth Earl of Derby, leading owner and breeder, is at once the most famous and most popular personality on the British Turf. His reception when he recently visited Aintree races was no less enthusiastic than that accorded to H.M. the King and the Princess Elizabeth when they attended the Hurst Park holiday meeting. Sport and Country now presents exclusive and recently ...

... By LAND AGENT When ye hae naething else to do, ye may he aye sticking in a tree, it will be growing Jock when ye're sleeping. My father tauld me sae forty years sin, but I ne' er found time to mind him. Laird Dumbiedike, The Heart af Midlothian. A RECENT pronouncement in Parlia ment indicates that at long last we have become forest conscious, coming round pretty much to the old Scots man's ...