... This is a trailer-tvpe. single-row prototype combine. The mechanism is driven from the power- take-off shaft and is designed to top and windrow two rows of tops lift the beet, clean them and windrow four rows of topped beet. Like the Catchpole, an arrangement for steering the machine is a great asset when working on sideling ground. The topping unit is in a floating frame. Driven wheels geared ...

... THE top price at the South Midland Shorthorn Breeders' Association's Show and Sale at Reading was 160 guineas, paid for Mr. F. W. Burmann's Duchess of Claydon 25th. Fifty-six lots were entered, and the general quality was good. At the British Kerry Cattle Society's Show and Sale, also at Reading, the highest figure was 120 guineas, realised by Lady and Major Sir John Fitzgerald's Buckland ...

... A GOVERNMENT Commission is to investigate the deplorable con ditions to which our own holiday-makers and visitors from abroad have been obliged to submit for so long. The Commission's Report will necessarily advocate long-term planning but, since official policy is to encourage visitors from abroad, with their badly-needed money, some immediate short-term reforms are called for. These visitors ...

... THIS event, sponsored by the News of the World and endowed with a prize fund of £2,000, was raised for the first time to the official status of a championship since its inception in 1903, and it was fitting that it should be played on one of the best championship courses in the world, that of the Royal Liverpool Golf Club at Hoylake. The weather throughout the week was beautiful for golf; at ...

... GETTING MARRIED The Tatler and Bystander's Review of Weddings Cheyne Hutchison Major William Watson Cheyne, The Seaforth Highlanders, second son of Col. Sir Lister and Lady Cheyne, of Legarth, Fetlar, Shetland, and Wetherden, Suffolk, married Miss Laurel Audrey Hutchison, elder daughter of Lt.-Gen. Sir Balfour and Lady Hutchison, of Big Firs Cottage, Aldeburgh, Suffolk, at St. Mark's, North ...

... Attractive American-born star Claire Luce is to appear in London as Thackeray's charmingly mercenary heroine, Becky Sharp, in Constance Cox's dramatization of Vanity Fair, which opens at the Comedy Theatre on Tuesday, October 29. The play, which has Victoria Hopper, Jack Livesey and Patrick Waddington in the cast, has just concluded a successful sixteen weeks' tour. Miss Luce, who was last ...

... THE Clun Forest Sheep Breeders Society held their Annual Ram Show and Sale at Craven Arms, with 200 rams and ram lambs in the catalogue. The Perpetual Challenge Cup, for the best ram of any age, was won by a shearling, shown by Messrs. H. T. Jones and Sons, and Mr. W. R. Lyke was second and reserve champion with Lawton Bury C.11. Messrs. G. Davies and Sons had the best aged ram, Fields End, P ...

... YEARLINGS sold at the tour-day Dublin Sales realised 180,650 guineas for 272 lots, averaging 664 guineas per lot. The aggregate greatly exceeded the record figures of 1945. The highest price realised was 4,000 guineas for the Turkhan filly illustrated on this page. Overseas visitors included Prince Hassan de Tousson, who races in France and Egypt and who bought, among other yearlings, Colonel ...

... Royal Air Force Fourth Annual Show At the Royal Horticultural Hall IN spite of a 40 per cent, decrease in acreage the R.A.F. are still growers on a large scale. The best vegetable garden this year was judged to be at the Station at Locking, where the value of the gross annual production is assessed at £3,000. In just over two years station personnel have worked derelict ground into highly ...

... THERE was a keen trade for the best entries at the 96th Show and Sale of T.T. pedigree Devon bulls organised by the Devon Cattle Breeders' Society at Exeter, but prices for second quality animals were slightly lower than they had been at other recent sales. Fifty- two of the bulls were ap proved for purchase under the Ministry's Premium Bull Scheme and 30 were bought at an average of £108. Mr. ...

... THE origin of the majority of the native pony breeds of Great Britain is lost in obscurity, and all we can say for certainty is that wild specimens roamed our forests, mountains and moor lands when the Romans came to our shores. More important than their past is their future. Their fortunes have fluctuated con siderably during the centuries, and in recent times others would probably have ...

... By a Special Correspondent THE honour of opening the coursing season in the South fell to the Haw thorn Hill Club, which, under the presidency of Miss N. Wilmot, assisted by a very strong committee, has arranged a very ambitious programme for the present season. The card included the Berkshire Cup for 32 all aged, and two puppy stakes, the Bray Stakes and the Binfield Stakes, the former being ...