... A New Gun -Dog Society THE Southern and Western Counties Retriever Society, formed early this year with the object of encouraging owners to compete in field trials with their own dogs, handled by themselves, held its first meeting on Mr. J. Arthur Rank's land at Sutton Manor, Sutton Scotney, near Winchester, under the presidency of the Duke of Somerset. Mr. Rank is chair man of the Committee ...

... The Oxfordshire Shpw JERSETS parade in the show-ring. Entries in the Channel Island breeds classes were so numerous that they kept the judges busy during the greater part of the opening day. SUPREME CHAMPION GUERNSEY Homewood Rosary's Robert (26-1 2- 43), by Fernhill Robert 19th out of Homewood Rosary was shown by Mr. I. H. Lamb, of Mill Farm, Sanston, Cambridge. MILKING-OUT entries in the ...

... THE desire to increase the quality as well as the quantity of our herds is evident not only in current experiments and demonstrations but also in discussions be tween farmers at show ring-sides and, on a higher level, between our agricultural leaders. The need for expanding home meat and milk production leads inevitably to the considera tion of improved stock-feeding methods, the basis of ...

... Recent Developments in Glasshouse Structure, ruit- Ripening and Air-Conditioning By Our Horticultural Correspondent RESEARCH and experiment covering almost every phase of horticultural activity are being carried on in various parts of the country, largely out of public funds. Here and there private enterprise is also taking a hand, and some interesting examples of this valuable work may be ...

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... II USTINS nusTixs You see more Austins on the roads of Britain today than any other single make of car The A 40 a champion dollar earner for Britain Many of the old Austins still very actively employed have withstood rough treatment as well as years of hard work. A Brecknockshire owner tells of his 1933 Austin 'Ten': In 1940 her remains lay beneath the debris of a garage. An optimist salvage ...

... ZANZIBAR, 20 miles off the mainland of Kenya, is an island with a stormy history. Chinese, Malays and Persians visited it as raiders and conquerors, and later the Portuguese, who in their turn were ravaged by the Turks and by the fierce tribes from south of the Zambesi. It was conquered by the Arabs in 1730 and still has an Arab Sultan, but has been a British Protectorate since 1890, when ...

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... i Who cares that there are still hundreds of CHILDREN UNWANTED, ILL-TREATED, HOMELESS, NEGLECTED. You can be their friend! 5,000 CHILDREN NOW IN OUR CARE A VOLUNTARY SOCIETY NOT STATE SUPPORTED GIFTS gratefully received by the Director, W. R. Vaughan, O.b.E. Church of Englanc formerly Waifs and Strays) OLD TOWN HALL, KENNINGTON, LONDON, S.E.I I ...

... 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 ...