... 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 ...

... VICTORY DAY will be celebrated in the country in much the same way that our forefathers have celebrated victories in the past. The rural community will rejoice with other communities whose activities are more highly organised--but in its own fashion. The milking sheds must not be left unattended; the essential work on the farms will go on. Yet, while the drums beat in the cities, while ten ...

... Vital Days for the Farmer The Fight for' Sufficient Winter Keep WITH famine stalking through Europe and little more than subsistence rations at home, there can be no respite for the farmer, who has the twofold task of feeding the people and his livestock also. Contrary to all hopes, the outlook for next winter is grim, and the recent reduction of rations for pigs and poultry to one-twelfth the ...

... THE TEDDER, or Kicker, used immediately after the mower, will lighten the swaths and hasten the drying. The shaken crop should be gathered together again before the night dew falls. Drying must not be overdone, in case the leaf becomes brittle and breaks off in the field. GRASS-DRYING Removing the dried material from a Kaloril drying plant. The crop here is at its maximum feeding value, the ...

... By ASHLEY COURTENAY THE normal route from Exeter to Liverpool would be via Taunton, Bristol, Gloucester, Worcester, Kidderminster and on to Chester and by the Mersey Tunnel-- yet how monotonous life would become if we always adhered to the highways! Browsing over my map in the quiet of Exeter's Cathedral Close, I plotted pleasurable diversions, with fresh hotel discoveries in them, and here ...

... By THE Royal Ascot Meeting is due to open on Tuesday, June 18, and is to carry on until the Friday, inclusive. Par ticulars of arrangements made, or to be made, in connection with it, have been circulated through the Press. These seem to boil down to the fact that, although it will be run on what are known as austerity lines, the meeting will be extremely enjoyable, subject only to weather ...

... A THOUSAND pedigree Hampshire Downs are being shipped from Britain to Europe under U.N.R.R.A.'s plan to re stock the Continent. This will be the largest movement of livestock ever made from this country. Above are 40 shearling ewes from Mr. P. Stewart Tory's world-famous Shapwick flock just before being loaded up for Tilbury Docks. The other pictures show Mr. Tory inspecting ram lambs from ...

... Lord Iveagh' s Dairy Shorthorns Bail Milking Brings a Transformation to Sandy Suffolk Soil THOSE who have gone by road from London to the Norfolk coast will remember the great barren sandv heaths on either side of the roads from Barton Mills to Thetford or Brandon and the great war memorial to the men of Elvedon towering to the skv. Twenty thousand acres of this land belong to' the Earl of ...

... THE resurgence of the association between the church and the land, now aided by the support of the wide spread Church and Countryside Association, was em phasised all over the country on Rogation Sunday, becoming generally known as Farm Sunday. The ancient rituals have been revived to celebrate the four notable farming occasions in the Church Calendar Plough-Monday, Roga tion-Tide, Lammas and ...

... I THE Bucks War Agricultural Executive Committee made sure that the farmer's wife was not forgotten at its Agricultural Exhibition and Open Day at County Farm, Aylesbury. In addition to demonstrations L, covering most farming operations, there were lectures and exhibits of particular interest to the country housewife, which included fruit and vegetable preservation, cheese-making, bacon- ...

... Mr. Hudson Practises What He Preached Many Notable Performers in His Friesian Herd WHEN Mr. R. H. Hudson bought the Fyfield Estate in 1942 he was Minister of Agriculture and was engaged in preaching to farmers the necessity of taking the plough round the farm to achieve the utmost in crops for direct human consumption and to produce the maximum quantity of milk. At Fyfield, as the pictures on ...

... FROM OUR PARLIAMENTARY CORRESPONDENT Mr. Spence, Conservative Member for Aberdeen and Kincardine Central, called for more research. Every penny of the present annual expenditure of £450,000 was well spent, but larger sums were needed to supple ment and extend the splendid work being done. In his own constituency many interest ing and useful experiments were being con ducted by the Rowett ...