... HAMPSHIRE DOWNS are very much in the news these days with a bulk shipment of 1,000 pedigree ewes and 50 rams to Czechoslovakia the other week and other exports from Sir William Rootes, well-known Stype flock of this breed to the United States, South America, Uruguay and Australia. Sir William tells us that at the moment he has enquiries from almost all over the world. At the annual last week, ...

... TNVITATIONS to pay visits of inspection to well-known herds recently drew hundreds of acceptances, in spite of the fact that many of the visitors had to travel considerable distances. The English Ayrshire Cattle Breeders' Association arranged a visit to the famous Byton Herd at Wellington, by permission of Mr. W. H. Slater, attended by 800 people, and to the Charters Herd at the Manor and Home ...

... ENTRIES in many classes at the first post-war Peterborough Agricultural Society's show were larger than in 1939. Dairy cattle, pig, hunter and Shire classes were particularly well supported. The Championship of the heavy horses went to the Shire mare, Lymm Winnie, with a Suffolk filly in reserve. Among the lighter horses, Mr. W. H. Cooper's Beau Geste was the Champion Hunter. In the pig ...

... By OUR HORTICULTURAL CORRESPONDENT THE sweet pea-- deservedly known as the Queen of annual flowers-- is quickly coming into its own again after being almost exiled from our gardens for six years. The word almost must be emphasised for, even in war time, the real enthusiast never ceased to grow them and show them, although shows were, quite rightly, on a very modified scale. The cultivation ...

... By MR. G. H. FREER, Clerk of the Course, for the Manchester Meeting, deserves sincere congratulations on the manner in which he has framed a race for the Septem ber meeting on the fine Castle Irwell course. The race-- a 6 furlong event-- is the Yarn Plate, for two-year-olds, maidens at starting, got by stallions which were winners of a race of a mile and a half or over. The intention is clear, ...

... HER SOCIAL JOURNAL THE COURT RETURNS THE return of the Court from Holyroodhouse meant no slackening of the pressure of engagements in the Royal diaries. Only an hour or two after leaving the train in which they had made an all-night journey from Edinburgh, both the King and Queen had en gagements at Buckingham Palace, where His Majesty received, among other important per sonages, the new Chief ...

... BUBBLE SQUEAK Stories from Everywhere THE overnight millionaire wanted the best of everything. He went into a music shop and asked to see their most expensive violin for his son. The assistant brought out a beautiful Stradivarius, saying, This is a 1748 Strad, priced at £20,000. The millionaire hesitated a moment, then remarked: You say it was made in 1748 and that it costs £20,000? That's ...

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... THE PROGRESS OF SALVAGE WORK IN THE THAMES ESTUARY A diagrammatic drawing showing various phases of the work which sti I continues at the mouth of the river in order to free completely the Port of London for peacetime traffic. Between the Essex and Kentish shores there are numerous wrecks remaining to be dealt with, most of them ships sunk by mines laid in the estuary by German planes. In the ...

... AFTER SIXTY-FOUR YEARS IN BRITISH OCCUPATION--THE CELEBRATED CITADEL AT CAIRO WHICH WAS OFFICIALLY HANDED OVER TO THE EGYPTIAN ARMY AT THE BEGINNING OF JULY An artist's impression of the imposing Kremlin of the Nile, a town within a town, containing several mosques, a palace (used as officers' auartersT. a hospital, a prison, a barracks and an arsenal. Its ceremonial evacuation by British ...

... The subject of forced landings has been much to the fore of late in aviation circles as a result of the accident to a Panair Constellation in the United States, carrying among its passengers Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier, homeward bound from New York. The giant four-motored Constellation, minus one motor, was skilfully crash- landed in a 3,000-ft. belly skid in the Connecticut countryside, ...

... IE FIGHT FOR THE ASHBURTON SHIELD A general view of the shooting at the Bisley Rifle Meeting when the British Public Schools com peted for the coveted trophy. The winning team was Blundells School HP. -S OF THE SPEED TRACK Frank Lilley, the side-car' passenger, does brilliant balancing act as J. Surtees steers his Norton round a bend when setting up a new record of 49 33 m.p.h. for motor cycle ...