... Trout-Breeding in Somerset Stocking the Streams of the World FOR more than fifty years the Exe Valley Fishery at Dulverton has been hatching and rearing trout, and from this part of Somerset have gone fish to stock rivers and lakes in almost every country of the world where there are suitable waters. The stock is sold in every stage of development, and only a small percentage of the ova raised ...

... THE New Disease of barley which has recently appeared throughout the country, but especially on the lighter soils, has been given a considerable amount of publicity lately. The obvious symptoms are quite well defined--some of the ears in a crop are found to contain a number of spikelets in which the ovary is pale, shrivelled and does not contain a properly developed grain. The number so ...

... CHESHIRE Agricultural Society was not so fortunate as the majority of counties have been this year, for torrential rain seriously affected the show attendance. In spite of the weather, the cattle entries of 350 constituted a record. At the Warwickshire event there was a slight increase on last year's entries and one of the largest crowds of spectators ever recorded for the county. E S K R I G ...

... CHANNEL Island cattle, as at the Sussex event, led the Dairy entries at the 72nd Annual Show of the Tunbridge Wells and South-Eastern Coun ties Agricultural Society, held this year on a temporary site at Downs Farm, St. Johns Road, and Sussex cattle were the strongest of the beef breeds. Although there were fewer classes than at the last show, in 1939, the total livestock repre sented an ...

... Another Beautiful Country Garden Charters, at Sunninghill By Our Horticultural Correspondent ONE often hears that gardening is finished, meaning, of course, garden ing on the grand scale as practised in the old days by the village squire or the Lord of the Manor, who could afford to em ploy anything from a dozen to a hundred gardeners. But if luxury gardening in a big way has suffered a ...

... By MIGOLI'S Eclipse Stakes Victory at Sandown Park is now past history., but a few comments on it may still be justified. The fact that Mr. Dewar's brilliant Guineas winner, Tudor Minstrel, met his match over the stiff ten furlongs at Esher may be interpreted as final evidence that a mile is his limit in top class. The race, however, served to emphasise his courage, for he was a beaten horse ...

... Lt. the Marquess of Milford Haven, who succeeded his father in 1938 has, like most members of his family, had a Naval career. He >!V*| was educated at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, and during the war was awarded the O.B.E. and D.S.C. while serving on NS V JJ M.S. Bramham. Lord Milford Haven is a nephew of Viscount Mountbatten of Burma (who is his heir), and a cousin of Lt. Philip xN ...

... £vj odtXZr IT is more than somewhat, as Damon Runyon says, to ask a shy man to write his own portrait. Am I shy? I shouldn't be, I know. But I am. A lifetime in the show business should have cured me, but it hasn't. The lifetime isn't an exaggeration. I entered the theatrical business at the compara tively early age of two months when, once nightly, I was thrown by my father through a back ...

... Pmcif(a_ in. Pedis Heal Wave OUR sleepless nights, at time of writing, are anything but nuits blanches. They are multicoloured, with orange strongly pre dominating, for under tightly-closed lids the memory of the day's flamboyant sun still flames. Finest linen sheets are as heavy and warm as cotton and the underside of the oft-turned pillow is never cool. The few short rainstorms we have ...

... mini HAD A GLORIOUS LOWES WEEK Marquess Camden discusses the wind and weather prospects with Mr. and Mrs. Michael Crichton Lord and Lady Iliffe come ashore at the Royal Yacht Squadron jetty at Cowes j Sir Godfrey Baring, chairman of the Royal National Lifeboat Institute, and Lady Baring Sir Ralph Gore (right), Commodore of the Royal Yacht Squadron, and Viscount Camrose Vice-Commodore Lord ...

... Post-war polo was further stimulated by the recent American tournament in Cowdray Park, the scene of similar matches in Goodwood Weeks before the war. Four teams, Cowdray, Cotswold, Henley and Friar Park, competed, and Cowdray won the silver cup with a smaller number of goals against them than against the other teams Watching the play on the last day Lt.-Col. Mathetc-Lannowe, Miss Tessa ...

... I Miss M. Tryer on Royal Token, a Richmond Show champion, receives the Silver Challenge Cup for Open Hacks from its donor, Mrs. H. Ashton-Hopper Three-year-old Timothy Ashton-Hopper, son of the organiser, presents his own Cup for Best Childys Pony under 14 hands to Sylvia James Mrs. A. R. Kent riding her entry, Vanity Fair, after winning first prize in the Novices' Hacks class under 15' 3 ...