... 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 ...

... HALF-A-MILLION dollars was paid by the British Friesian Cattle Society for 220 head of Canadian Friesians pur chased to introduce new blood into British herds, the transaction representing the highest average price or total ever paid for a shipment of the breed exported from that country. The largest sum for an individual animal in the consignment was 10,000 dollars for a two-months-old ...

... MRS. MARY CAROLINE INGE, of Tamworth, although over eighty years of age, is a keen rider to hounds and an enthusiastic farmer. Her Shropshire sheep and Tamwort 1 pigs are known throughout the countr and have many prizes to their credi She comes of an old hunting famih four of whom have been Masters f THORPE HALL, Mrs. Inge's attractive home near Tam worth, Staffordshire. She owns 10,000 acres ...

... MR. T. F. L. TALBOTT on his 600 acres at Mentmore, Leighton Buzzard, has built up an appreciable export business in pedigree Jerseys, for his Meadows herd has had many successes. After the liberation of Jersey, Mr. Talbott was one of the first of English breeders to visit the Island, and finding much of the Jersey stock was in good condition, he made and has made since, many purchases, in all ...

... 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 ...