... OF the major British industries, farming is, perhaps, the most healthy and so the most likely to make an extra effort. The expansion called for is a 50 per cent, increase over pre-war, when there were nearly as many idle acres as productive ones, and 15 per cent, more than the war time peak of 1943/44, achieved under dire difficulties. r ne tana to-aay is m gooa neart proies- sional landowners ...

... /\NE of Earl St. Aldwyn's flock of Oxford Downs was sold for the top price of /150 at , where the same owner received the cup for the most successful exhibitor and also won the special prize presented by the President of the Oxford Down Sheep Breeders' Association, Mr. W. Trevethan, for the best single shearling or ram lamb. Up to 70 guineas was made by others of Earl St. Aldwyn's rams Messrs. ...

... Proof that great changes can be made in the actual shape, general confirmation, type and quality of farm livestock by feeding methods is given in these photographs. They are of the same four pigs bom on the same day from the strain of Uniform Large Whites at the Cambridge University Experimental Station. The four were killed on reaching the bacon weight of 200 lb. Had all been fed on the same ...

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... IN 1892 Iwanowsky, a Russian botanist, while studying a disease of the tobacco plant, made a startling discovery. How startling this discovery was neither he nor his colleagues realised at the time. The experiment he did was simple enough, but it opened the door to an entirely new world-- the world of the infinitely small. The disease of the tobacco plant which Iwanowsky was studying was ...

... WINTER Sports in Switzerland are being held in normal conditions this season for the first time since 1938, and programmes of sporting events, including international competitions, have been arranged at all the main centres. The Cresta I Run and the Olympic Leap at St. Moritz are once again the great attractions they were before the war, and visitors from England, seeking relaxation from the ...

... WHEN the blaster, sand iron, dynamiter or sand-wedge first made its appear ance here about 1929, the first model I saw was an egg-shaped, wide-soled club with a concave face and thick top edge. Horton Smith brought it over, and in a friendly round with him on the old Birkdale course that same year I spent much time in sand bunkers and various other bad places trying it out. What impressed ...

... fll r lives on the 111! He always took his bread and spread, his bacon and egg, his boiled beef and carrots wholly for granted. Rationing well, that was something to do with war. Afterwards everything would be all right. But now he finds that everything is far from right with the farm of the world. The shortage of food has lifted his eyes from the shop counters where food just happened along, ...

... I! lll.UIJIlJI.il WAR90URS OF TAF WORLD mOilTREAL berth at one time. Lister Black6tone marine engines are depended upon for auxiliary and propulsion duties. ...

... By A. CROXTOlY SMITH SOMETHING akin to a feeling of nostalgia is conjured up by those magic words, Best in show. Memories of exciting days at Cruft's and the Kennel Club come back to mind when the challenge certificate winners of the previous day paraded in the big ring, watched by thousands of keen spectators from all parts of the world. At the Crutt s of 1939 I was introduced to a charm ...

... With faultless rounds three com petitors shared the leading places in the Military Tumping Competition No. 2. They are left to right, Capt. Fresson (France) on Nankin; Commandant F. A. Aherne (Ireland) on Clontibret and Commandant D. J. Corry (Ireland) on Antrim Glens. Below, Commandant Corry is over the water jump in magnificent style and Commandant de Tiliere (France) another competitor in ...

... WATCHING THE JUDGING of Anglo-Arabs at Roehampton, where there were over 200 entries for the Summer Show of the Arab Horse Society. The Society's first independent show, under the Presidency of Lady Wentworth, of Crabbct Park, was held in April last year and was followed by a summer event and another spring fixture this year. They were so successful that the Society is likely to have a ...