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6 April 1949 (35)

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The Grand National

... THE PARADE: Lord Bicester1 s Roimond (Aubrey Brabazon) teas undoubtedly the class horse of the field. He is foUotced by Miss Paget' s handsome Happy Home Cloncarrig and the favourite, Lord Mild may's Cromwell with his intrepid owner in the saddle RUSSIAN HERO, bred and owned by a Cheshire farmer, Mr. W. F. Williamson, and brilliantly ridden by L. McMorrow, won the coveted Aintree trophy in ...

GEO. W. KING LTD

... H ITCH I N 960 (10 lines) FARM BUILDINGS COWSTALLS WATER BOWLS ELEVATORS CHAFFCUTTERS I BINDER CANVASES PNEUMATIC GRAIN CONVEYING STORAGE EQUIPMENT C.S.H. WORKS HITCHIN HERTS KING COWSTALLS AND WATER BOWLS Above Type 9S9 X side-post Cowstalls with Camlock Automatic Water Bowls and Spring Balance Manger Divisions, manufactured and erected by King. This installation typifies many throughout ...

Record Shire Show

... THE large entry of 129, the obvious enthusiasm of the record number of spectators, and the high quality of the majority of the horses at the Shire Horse Show, organised by the Shire Horse Society at Derby, was a healthy indication that this famous breed is as popular as ever. It may well be that the decline in heavy-horse population generally in recent years has at last been regarded as a ...

up and down the land

... IN an effort to increase pig and poultry production, by encouraging wider small- scale as distinct from big-scale produc- tion by pig and poultry specialists, the Ministry is reopening the scheme which they introduced last October, for stock kept on agricultural holdings of over one acre. This scheme will come into operation on May I. Belated applications held since last October by County ...

SPALDING

... jT)T7f HB GOLF TOURNAMENT will be held at Worthing, 1st to 3rd June. TOP-FLITE' CLUBS and the NEEDLED TOP-FLITE' BALL ...

Jersey Cattle in Demand

... rPHE English Jersey Cattle Society, which has a still-increas ing membership of 3,600, as compared with under 2,000 before the war, and meets a continued steady demand for the attractive breed at home and abroad Kenya and South Africa being par ticularly interested countries had reason to feel well pleased with the Spring Show and Sale at Reading. En tries had increased by 50 over last year's ...

Muck-Loading and Hedge-Cutting

... Muck-Loading and Hedge- Cutting THERE is much talk, as though farmers did not realise it, of the need for real old-fashioned muck and humus if our land is to be kept in good heart. The farmer's trouble is that, with the ever-increasing wage for entirely unskilled labour, the costs of collecting, loading and spreading muck and compost may well be much greater than the returns from an increased ...

Greater Variety in Vegetables

... To Counteract The Meat Cut By Our Horticultural Correspondent THE latest cut in the meat ration makes the housewife's task an unenviable one indeed. Apart from the fishmonger-- and we are all getting tired of fish-- she has only one ally to whom she can turn for help in trying to solve her catering problems-- the gardener. And how can he improve on the fine performance he has put up during the ...

Shire Pride

... Sliire Pride MORE than 5,000 people, the largest attendance at the Shire Horse Show for twenty years, saw Mr. Richard Sutton's eight-year-old brown stallion, The Bomber, win the Stallion Championship at Derby. A Although his owner has exhibited for some years, it was the first time he had won the trophy. The other pictures are of the judging of the single-horse commercial- class entries and ...

The New Zealanders are Surprised

... IN the lamentations over our shortage of dollars it must not be forgotten that lack of dollars outside the United States some times makes our tasks easier. This is particularly true in Australia and New Zealand. Till recent months, there has been a prejudice against British tractors. This prejudice had no foundation in criticism of British machines, for there were none there to evoke comment, ...