... TURKEYS are rather delicate-- they origin- ated in a warm climate-- and they are greedy feeders, needing plenty of fresh air and exercise with large quantities of succulent green food. The birds shown in the pictures were given a mash of roots mixed with kale, cabbage, waste potatoes, and other home- produced green crop plants. This mixture was cooked in large steam-heated tanks with a small ...

... PR A CT ICE Now they can slip collar, bridle and pad on the horse themselves without assist ance. The student is buckling the throat lash like an expert. PASSENGERS They thought it a great joke, when they were mere visitors, to travel in the farm catt around the grounds, and smiled a little self-consciously at the camera. WORKERS They appreciate the toughness of work with the farm cart and are ...

... THE remarkable war time developments of radio telephony (the original means of communication between pilots and their aerodromes) seems to offer considerable opportunities for use on the larger British farms. Certainly a great deal of interest is being shown in this means of communication overseas, and it is expected that it will be taken up on ranches, rubber plantations and large-scale wheat ...

... PUPPIES are now frequently given as Christmas presents, and are often acceptable. If one has the facilities and can spare the time to attend to them, much may be said in favour of getting puppies. The pleasure of watching their development is intensified by the intimate association that is formed. In the best sense, they become one of the family and exhibit an attachment for those who care for ...

... WILD MOUNTAIN COUNTRY A view, characteristic of the Welsh mountains, which clearly shows the rough, boulder-strewn hillsides on which the hardy sheep exist for much of their lives. The dogs are driving a group towards a mountain gate on their way to the dipping pens. IN TJIE VALLEY, the large flock wends its w y 0 The trained sheep-dogs save the farmers weeks of d 'leu season. One dog may be ...

... TWO bulls were sold for iooo guineas each and twenty-nine bulls averaged £382 at the seventh annual sale of animals from Mr. W. H. Slater's Ayrshire herd. Bargower-bred bulls have been used by Mr. Slater since the formation of his herd, and fifteen sons of Bargower Cup Tie, who was sired by the famous Bargower Rothesay Bay, made an average of £529 4s. at the sale, which was attended by over ...

... From Private to Commercial II By Our Horticultural Correspondent A FORTNIGHT ago I drew attention to the fact that the professional gardener who has always worked in a private establishment does not take easily to commercial work. There are, of course, thousands of good men who can run a garden really well, supply all the produce required by their employer, and, in addition, hand over a ...

... Ten Years Tubercle-free A Successful Experiment in Homoeopathic Treatment CAPTAIN G. C. MORTON inherited the family estate at Pembury in 1932. At that time the home farm carried a small herd of mixed dairy cattle. There were a number of pedigree Guernseys with some non-registrable cows of the same type and a few cows of other breeds. Captain Morton devoted himself to the task of grading-up the ...

... j By THE publication of the Free Handicap for two-year-olds of 1946, to run as three-year-olds next season, has now been effected. We are all thus privileged to have the most expert opinion there is on the merits of this season's juveniles in relation to their expected form over seven furlongs at Newmarket in the Spring. Mr. Freer, who has compiled the handicap, has performed his task with his ...

... Ready For The Market Neat Appliances For Gas Cooking and Heating THE FIRST is a neat little double-burner gas ring, in pressed steel and vitreous enamel, on which can be cooked an entire meal. It can stand on any ordinary table, and the gas burners which are of a special type cannot in any circum stances fail to light or be ex tinguished by a gust of wind, even when reduced to a pin-point. ...

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... By ASHLEY COURTENAY ABOUT one hundred and fifty years ago the poet Crabbe burst into verse on the Decaying Inn, and, though our hotels and inns are to-day much on the upgrade, hardly a week goes by without some member of the public writing to the Press and complaining about the deficiencies of hotel service. In a recent oroaacast 1 empnasisea mat u is ciiaiacLcnotic ui uui lait iu criticise ...