... A Kent F rait-Spray ing Demonstration SOME new models were on view at a demonstration of fruit- spraying machinery arranged by the Kent A.E.C. and National Advisory Council at Mr. J. F. Towner's Salts Farm, at Loose, near Maidstone. The many spec tators were obviously impressed by the capabilities of the machines shown, as was proved by the number of inquiries about early delivery questions ...

... Enterprise: Britain's Pioneering Scheme] 1 E. Africa DAR-ES-SALAAM The harbour on the coast of Tanganyika which, for the next two years, will be an important supply port for the ground-nut operations and will also represent the nearest large centre of civilisation for the Europeans engaged on the Tanganyika section of the scheme. CITY OF TO-MORROW? Mikindani, Southern Tanganyika, where ships ...

... Q> The Bloodstock Industry, by the President of the T.B.A. LORD ROSEBERY, in his capacity of President of the Thoroughbred Breeders' Association, was able to give his audience some heartening news at the Association's Annual Meeting at Newmarket. He was able to announce that foreign money spent on yearlings alone during 1947 amounted to £233,000. This is a very high percentage for yearlings, ...

... A New King Herod 99 AN interesting problem has been raised by Mr. Geoffrey Bennett, the art collector and authority on sporting prints and pictures. He has recently acquired a picture by William Shaw of the celebrated Herod (foaled 1758) which, he believes, throws a new light on the history of the well-known print- of the horse by J. N. Sartorius. The J. N. Sartorius picture, in which appears ...

... Messrs. Tattersall held a very successful sale of bloodstock at New market, lasting from the Monday to the Friday. There was a brisk trade for the export market, purchases being made by buyers for Ireland, the Con tinent, Argentina, Brazil, South Africa, Australia and U.S.A. Averages were good, but reserves placed on an unusually large number of lots prevented the aggre gate from being a ...

... TRACTORS (LONDON) Lid., .t5 . 1 I rhe White Mouse. Bent'ey Heath. Barnet. Herts. Tel Barnet 4S0Q th j FIRST IN THE FIELD AND FIRST OUT 1 iTMTi TRACTORS WHPMP j T My There's a Trusty implement 5 for every occasion Ploughing Discing Harrowing-- Furrowing Rolling Cultivating Hoeing Ridging Transplanting Potato-Lifting Spraying Carting 1 Sawing Hedge-Trimming etc., etc. Ask for a demonstration. ...

... 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). ...

... A SCHOOL has been set up in the Appenzell, Switzerland, for war orphans of all nations. A village is developing with it, the whole financed by volun tary contributions and built by voluntary labour. The children are brought up as nationals of their own coun tries, but their instructors work with two main objects in view, to restore to them normal health and a normal mentality, without ...

... EVER since the great Barnum descended upon London we have conceded that the Ameri cans are born showmen. Give them a good thing and they will get every ounce out of it. Some of them will even make the indifferent seem passable. In handling dog shows they have us beaten. We yield to no country in our ability to stage displays of dogs that are incomparable, but we have not acquired the art of ...

... Lion Cages From War Stores Glasgow Zoo is a Triumph of Improvisation By S. H. Benson (Director-Secretary of the Zoological Society of Glasgow and West of Scotland PLANNING a lion cage from old wood from condemned railway wagons is one thing, but to stand and watch a pair of adult Hons go into that cage is another. Perhaps that was my biggest thrill when the new Zoological Park, near Glasgow, ...

... Racine Reflections By DECEMBER has in many respects proved to be the most important month of the year, although admittedly it could not have been so but for the events of the previous eleven months. Racing's Board of Directors the Stewards of the Jockey Club presents neither a Report nor a Balance Sheet for the season's workings, but various subsidiary organisations have held their meetings ...