... GOOD weather favoured the twenty-sixth annual show of the Alresford and District Agricultural Society at the Manor Stud, Bishop's Sutton, by permission of the President, Sir William Collins. Sir William's entries and those of Mrs. K. E. R. Butchart and Mr. G. i Charnaud were among the most successful i cattle at the Show, and Lord Northbrook's i Hampshire Downs and Sir J. Colman's Clun Forests ...

... By Land Agent WORLD war number one reminded us in no uncertain manner of the value of our native woodlands, and world war number two brought the lesson home with even greater emphasis, the result being that we are, at the present time, probably more tree-conscious than we have been for many a long day. We are, in fact, returning to some degree to the outlook ot our tore fathers who, before the ...

... DELEGATES from six Northern Nigerian provinces, staying in Britain for four months as guests of the British Council, to study administrative and educational methods over here, visited Lord Leconfield's Home Farm at Stag Park, Petworth, Sussex. Accompanied by Mr. Bryce Smith and Mr. W. Morgan, formerly Senior Residents in Nigeria, and Mr. R. H. Waller, of the British Council, they were shown ...

... Surrey School For Young Ladies Dog Welfare Lessons in a Country House D'ABERNON HOUSE is a boarding-school where the pupils devote all their time to the care of dogs, so that after a course lasting six months or one year they are fitted to be kennel-maids. Some have in mind opening kennels on their own account others will be valuable assistants to veterinary surgeons. Before breakfast the ...

... THE English 1 Association's 43rd Annual Champion ship Meeting at Glebe Farm, Northolt, Middlesex, was a two-day affair. The Dougall Memorial was held on the first day and the English Open Championship was decided on the Second. The Champion ship Cup, won by the chairman, Mr. C. Lucas, was presented to him by his wife a happy reward for much hard work put in to maintain and revive the ...

... ^4* DONCASTER pictures will appear in the next issue (September 27) of this journal. For the moment it is my pleasant task to record a very satisfactory sale of yearlings at Newmarket. Messrs. Tattersalls sold approximately (no official figures are available) 273 lots for 529,870 guineas, averaging 1,941 guineas per individual yearling. The returns, as expected, constitute a record in this ...

... SOME remarkable jumping by Rita Neville on her pony Whisky was the outstanding feature of the British Show Jumping Association's Victory Show at the White City. Miss Neville won the B.S.J.A. South of England Juvenile Challenge Cup by clearing a height of just under five feet. Her pony originally scored two faults, but in the first jump-off tied with Miss J. Frost's Lady Jane Grey with a clear ...

... T urkmenistan Stud Farm THE people of Asiatic Russia have long been famous as horsemen, and for centuries many of them have made horse-breeding their chief business. 1 his is particularly true of Turkmenistan, an agricultural and stock-raising area of 188,600 square miles which is bounded on the west by the Caspian Sea and on the south by Persia. In this territory, of which cotton, wool, ...

... IN spite of the fact that at this year's revival of the there was a certain amount of unavoidable austerity in the arrangements for spectators, the Dalesmen's famous meeting was attended by a crowd of over 20,000, and vehicles of all kinds packed the car parks. There were a hundred more entries than in 1939, when the event was last held, the majority of increases being in the wrestling ...

... MR. HERBERT MORRISON, speaking in Glasgow at the week-end, is reported to have said: Anyway, let me tell the private electricity people, many of whom have done more for themselves out of the industry at the expense of the industry generally and the domestic con sumers than they have done for the social well-being of the country, that electricity is on the list with iron and steel, and that we ...

... Kerry Hill Sheep Flock Book Society's Annual Sale LYDBURY NORTH TARZAN was the Champion Ham Lamb and a first-prize winner at the Kerry Hill (Wales) Flock Book Society's annual show and sale. He was shown by Mr. Maurice Jones of the Red House, Lydbury North, Shropshire. Entries totalled about 7,000. IN THE SALE RING Mr. George Morgan, the auctioneer, is selling the Champion Yearling Ram, ...

... North-Western Shorthorns Grading Up By Proven Sires At Lord Lonsdale's Crowther Estate HEIFER CALVES by various sires are paraded while Mr. W. J. Dent (paper in hand) comments upon them. The Earls of Lonsdale have been breeders of Shorthorns longer than almost anyone in the breed to-day, but the herd was only put on a purely commercial basis comparatively recently. KiasAi J w ...