... By A. Croxton Smith WE are indebted to Mr. R. L. Cutler, of Tangmere, Sussex, for photographs of sheepdog trials at West Dean Park, near Chichester, held in aid of the National Farmers' Union Flood Disaster Fund. Trials of this des cription appeal irre sistibly alike to country folk and town dwellers, and I consider them to be of great educational value, as showing how sheep can be worked by ...

... THE big international event of the yachting season, the Seawanhaka Cup, is to be raced for on the Clyde at the end of this month. The Cup was won in 1938 by Mr. J. Herbert Thom's Circe--a notable achievement for a Scottish boat to cross the Atlantic and to lift the biggest prize in the 6-metre world from an American boat. Goose, sailing in her own waters. The following year Circe again won ...

... MR. James Turner, nominated by the unanimous vote of County Branches to serve for another year as President of the National Farmers' Union, has held office in one of the most momentous periods in the history of British farming. The remarkable growth to power of the N.F.U. may safely be regarded as a power for the good of the country as a whole, inasmuch as it does not represent a sectional ...

... Kent Training Centre Land Girls al Swanley Horticultural College THE Kent W.A.E.C. I are using the Swanley Horticultural College as a special training centre for their land girls. Work covers general farming, horticulture and private gardens, the courses being from six months to a year. The Swanley College buildings were rather badly damaged by enemy action, but the green-houses and market ...

... AT Eaton Hall, near Chester, where the River Dee, still tidal, winds its way through the Duke of Westminster's estate, near the border dividing England from Wales, there is a Dairy Shorthorn herd which was established over a century ago and which has been milk-recorded for quite sixty years. The figures for those pioneer days at Eaton, when the production of each cow was first recorded, are ...

... W orcester Y oiing Farmers Sport and Country Ploughing Cup TPi-h show season now ending has been remarkable lor the number of events organised and for the interest dis played by the public in them, but in addition to the large county fixtures which have received the lion's share of attention there have been many smaller local occasions up and down the country in which organisation and ...

... British Sheep Dogs Lessons of the Past 1 rials Season By Sydney Moorhouse APART from one or two local events still to take place, the season of sheep dog trials has ended, and the Border Collies that have delighted crowds in all parts of the country will retire into comparative obscurity until next summer. Obscurity for the sheep dog, however, does not mean rest. Work on the great sheep runs ...

... By Our Horticultural Correspondent WHEN the ploughshares are turning the autumn stubbles it is time for the gardener to take the first steps in preparation for next year's vegetable crops. As a rule amateur gardeners in general, and townsmen in particular, take too little heed of the farmer's methods, partly no doubt because they lack the opportunity to see them being put into practice. ...

... I THINK that Bernard Darwin's Golf Between Two Wars is a beautifully written book full of information and stories told in his inimitable style. To put over a golf book, worth anything, facts and figures are always essential, but it is a con siderable feat to build them into a tale as Bernard Darwin has done, a tale that gives every golfer a real thrill and makes him want to finish the book ...

... gave 2,636 Gals, in 365 Days P£RFORMANC£ /S PROOF AIDWYCH HOUSE. ALDWYCH. LONDON W.C.2. PHONE- H0L80RN 6680 9 ...

... By Our Parliamentary Correspondent THERE was a good deal of news last week about farming and food. Some of it was good. There does seem to be, at last, a reasonable hope of getting feeding stuffs from Russia, but the announcement of agreement in principle in Moscow was rather overshadowed by the difficulties in Ottawa where negotiations were making little progress. In the House of Lords there ...

... KING HEROD, commonly known as Herod, was a bright bay with black points. By Tartar out of Cypron, he was foaled in 1758, and was bred by William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, the first Royal member of the Jockey Club. He bought the dam, Cypron, from Sir William St. Quintin. Herod was her fourth foal. He first ran in October 1763, at Newmarket, and beat the Duke of Ancaster's Roman (by Blank). ...