... THE idea of newly sown grass seeds producing growth through a bitu minous layer seems so contrary to nature to be absurd. Yet many airfields were so treated during the war and with such success that the treated areas stood out as green islands in a sea of mud. Soil stabilisation had hardly been seen in this country before the war. If a firmer surface was needed there was nearly always the vast ...

... By Our Horticultural Correspondent NEARLY every flower lover has tried to grow sweet peas at some time or other, and now that normal peace time gardening activity is gradually returning there seems to be a desire to produce better quality blooms of this popular flower. Readers of SPORT AND COUNTRY appear to be par ticularly interested in the subject since my report of the National Sweet Pea ...

... LAVENDER, grown in the Home Counties and especially at Mitcham is also grown extensively in parts of Norfolk. Mr. Lynn Chilvers a Norfolk grower, is shown surveying a 50 -acre field of year-old bushes this is stated to be the largest lavender plantation in the country. The other pictures show the lavender being sacked and placed into one of the vats for distilling. There is at present a ...

... British Sheep for Texas and Australia British Judge:? j n Argentina I 'HE British White Cattle Society are exporting two bulls and three heifers to Mr. Navarro Ospina, at Medellin, Colombia, South America. Mr. Navarro Ospina has a herd of White Cattle with black points and is wishing to improve their milking qualities, and the Society is sending selections from herds with the highest milking ...

... DURING the next few months some fif teen million head of poul try and an unspecified number of young pigs and young cattle are to be slaughtered. This drastic reduction in livestock was planned earlier in the year by the Ministries of Food and Agriculture so that the bulk of the British harvest could be used for human food. Well, the bulk of the British harvest will be only fit for animal food ...

... EAST, South, West and North our farmers are trying to win the harvest and day by day their diffi culties increase and their losses mount. The dreadful weather of the harvest months has been nation wide, and the year's efforts of a million workers is rotting before their eyes. From some areas there are pictures of burst river banks and sheaves waist deep in water, but these are special ...

... A REPORT just published by the United States Agricultural Department de scribes the revolution which has taken place in farming there during the war years. Horse and mule teams have largely disappeared and more than two million tractors were in use in 1945. The land is being put into good heart with the use of lime, and conservation of the soil by winter cover crops, grass and legume crops ...

... By A. CROXTON SMITH THE charming picture on this page to-day contains a cup that must have cheered twice over. The Basenji puppy, Fern of the Congo, looks to be thoroughly enjoying a drink of cold water at the Basenji Show in London, and his owner, Miss Veronica Tudor- Williams, surely was happier still, because he won the cup for her in his class. It reminds me of the old hunting song of my ...

... THE SALE RING The champion boar makes its ap pearance in the ring during the Essex Pig Society's autumn show and sale at Chelmsford. LINDEN LAURENCE 7th, the Champion Boar, owned by Mr. W. T. Pudncy, was sold to Mr. A. II. Carter, Chairman of the Essex Pig Society, for 160 guineas. CHAMPION GILT: Mr.L. Thorogood's gilt, Carlton Duchess 14 th, was first in its class and ivon the championship. ...

... i, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. Frustration All Round.-- It is not merely the poisoned dart aimed at the Labour Government, but a much more widely-held opinion which is daily voiced that the nation is suffering from frustration and is becoming unnaturally apathetic and cynical. Nothing works. The machine, if it can be so called, stutters and breaks down everywhere in every department of life. You ...

... The Luftwaffe in a few nights transformed the face of Step ney, and now the London County Council, taking advantage of the blitzed area, intends to make a newer and better Stepney, with spacious parks and recreation- grounds occupying what once was slum property. Happily, historic St. Dunstan's Church still remains to give continuity to the history of this part of London's East End STEPNEY ...

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