... Britain's Loss Africa's Gain THE breaking-up of a well-known herd is always a sad occasion, and the recent dispersal of Mr. Horace Hale's famous Kingswood Friesians brought to a close one of this country's greatest success stories of the development and maintenance of a strong breeding policy. The news that Mr. Hale and his wife and sons were leaving the country and taking with them some of ...

... By Our Horticultural Correspondent FOR every garden which is equipped with a greenhouse there may be ten or more without such a valuable acces sory, and my recent remarks on the produc tion of early vegetables may have brought cold comfort to a number of my readers. But there is one consolation-- If you cannot take your plants to a glasshouse, you can quite easily take a glasshouse to your ...

... THINKING of the strange joints the butcher has to make of the carcass meat, a ration of corned beef is not unwelcome. It is better value for the customer's money, and at least there is no confusion over carving. What is confusing is that the Ministry of Food seems able to get all the corned meat it wants, yet some- where and at some time corned beef must have started as a carcass, and we ...

... The Young Entry And Others i THE GARTH HUNT arranged a children's meet at Bramshill Park, Lord Brocket's seal near Hartley Witney, Hants. The house is one of the best-preserved seventeenth-century residences in the country, and (inset) has a hound gale on the ground floor to prevent hounds wandering about indoors. A roller on the top revolves when they place their paws on it. SUGAR PLUM, ...

... By H. Edwards Garke THE recent South of England Club meeting on Mr. J. V. Rank's estate at Druids' Lodge was all the more interesting and entertaining because, in addition to some grand sport, it also afforded us a final opportunity before the Waterloo Cup, of running an eye over this season's puppies and of attempting to gauge the merit of other would-be aspirants to Altcar honours. On ...

... FROM 1949 back to 1937, just twelve years and just this time it is since an American Ryder Cup team visited the Old Country. Since the last exciting match over the Southport and Ainsdale course (which I always found to be a most fascinating golf links to play over, although so far from the actual sea), there has only been one Ryder Cup encounter. This was in 1947 at Portland, Oregon a golfing ...

... . . C IJJJJTi ^TTTTitliA 1 IESTC0LD CHURN IMMERSION Milk Coolers WILL owe YOU QUICKER cooling 1 SIMPLER COOLING CHEAPER COOLING Built by Britons in Europe's greatest refrigerator factory at Cowley, Oxford, these new Prestcold milk coolers are outstanding news for Britain's farmers. Already they have become the talk of every agricultural show at which they have been exhibited. What makes them ...

... By A. CROXTON-SMITH Enthusiasts who are in search of novelty may be reminded that several breeds exist in various parts of the king dom that are little known to the general public and might very well be developed. One of them is the Bearded Collie of Scotland, several of which I remember were ex hibited by a lady in the years between the two wars, but they failed to attract admirers. At a ...

... , I A P\V D A D I CAA/ w''e ^'r B°Bert Barlow, the industrialist, with her four-year-old daughter Jane. Lady Barlow is better l-- y^\ I I D/-\I\LW VV known as Margaret Rawlings, the actress, and her fine performance as Vittoria Corombona in Webster's The White Devil at the Duchess in 1947 is still fresh in the memory. The daughter of the Rev. G. W. Rawlings, she was educated at Oxford High ...

... m l%rtrmte inn Print THERE is something about a bedside book encountered on a week-end in a country house that gives it a quality hard to define. Perhaps it is the knowledge that you are never likely to meet it again or it may be that the background of an unfamiliar room creeps into the book. I made the acquaintance a week-end ago ol a dusty volume dealing with the intimate home life of the ...

... HER SOCIAL JOURNAL Court Wews: Good news from his doctors brought the New Year in happily for the King. They were able to tell His Majesty, after a further very comprehensive examination, that his progress had been such that he would be able to travel to Sandringham much earlier than they had at first thought possible. Accordingly, arrangements were put in hand for the Court to move to Norfolk ...

... Brig. M. I. Majid, Miss H. Hussey and Mr. Monty Woolley the actor and producer, were among the guests of Mr. S. M. Sayeed, of Karachi, a prominent industrialist, at a dinner he gave recently at the Savoy to promote understanding of Pakistan Mrs. Lucy Ward and Mr. Oliver Woods discuss various aspects of the new Dominion Mrs. Zohra Majid with the Marquess of Queensberry, who was the guest of ...