... Paris Sliow-Jumping HORSES and riders representing Britain in the Inter national Jumping Competitions in Paris distinguished themselves, both individually and collectively. Not only did Mr. Harry Llewellyn, on Fox Hunter, give the best individual performance, as mentioned in oilr frontispiece, but the British team was also the highest on points. The riders and horses were Mr. Harry Llewellyn ...

... DEVON CIDER Air. J. A. Haywood, of the Devon A.E.C. gives a demonstration of some modern orchard-pruning methods at Caddaford Farm, Buckfastleigh, to a group of interested farmers, including the eighty-year-old Mr. John Petherick. THE METAL BOLT The Devon Branch of the N.F.U. brought in Air. Maurice Cross to examine one of Air. S. G. Higmans cows. The detector apparatus located a bolt in the ...

... The Goat Announced Her Kidding- time by Wireless A Simple Idea which Might Help Farmers and Stockbreeders By Fitzroy D. Maclean (Brig. Beta.) WE are goatkeepers at Purley, Surrey, and it is my belief that we have developed a device which stockbreeders would find helpful. We had a valuable high- milking goat in kid to an outstanding sire. She was due to kid any time. The weather suddenly turned ...

... Britain's State F or ests Conifers For Soft Wood THE timber demands during two World Wars resulted in the reduction of Britain's already inadequate acreage of woodland to such an extent that we were left without the necessary reserves of standing trees. The Forestry Commission is making great progress in establishing new forests throughout the length and breadth of the country to replace the ...

... F riendship Gesture Apple Trees from Sulgrave Manor for George Washington's Garden THE mansion, enlarged in 1759 and completed in 1786, looks across the park, in a south-easterly direction, to the mighty Potomac River, which is approximately 1¼ miles wide. It is approached from the north-west, so that the visitor, entering the gates, saw the bowling-green, and the small circular courtyard of ...

... 0 Qg v cKaP0 THE situation as regards the 1949 classics is so far normal. The pattern is being woven on lines to which we have become accustomed during the last few years. Candidates for the Two Thousand Guineas are having their preliminary races, avoiding one another whenever possible. Not more than two or three of them appear to be fancied. There is the usual speculation as to their capacitv ...

... THE Red Poll Society report increasing interest in their Reading Shows. The recent Spring Show attracted many buyers and sellers from the West and South, where the Red Poll is popular because of its suitability for the bail system of milking. One hundred and two head (76 females and 26 bulls) of attested cattle averaged £152 3s. 4d. Vendors included Lady Palmer, whose husband, the late Sir ...

... I Lakeland a! i Eastertide THE majority of holiday-makers are obliged to wait until summer for their annual vacations. The fells in spring are very lovely for those mostly from the North and Midlands who are able to walk through the hills and dales of this unspoiled corner of England. It is a wonderful country for young people, and happy indeed are those groups, such as our young Austrian ...

... Oil Long Hitting EVERY golfer, whatever his actual standing in the world of golf, would be untruthful if he did not admit that he gets a real kick out of hitting an extra good one one off the meat, or, as they say in America, one on the nose. How far it goes depends on one's own timing, limited directly by the amount of speed one can impart to the club-head, and that is dependent on the ...

... BY keeping pigs in harness. Brigadier E. G. Warren, C.B.E., of the Northampton- shire Regiment (retired), plans on his eleven-acre County Limerick holding to show how more bacon can be produced. Pigs, he says, do not gain enough weight when they wander where they like they damage fences and time is lost rounding them up. The remedv A harness. This is made of two straps. One fits over the pig ...

... To-day's Value of Poultry Stock and Appliances Remarkable Prices at the Stanbridge Earls Dispersal Sale THE AUCTION Bidding at the sale, which teas held on two days and at ivhich 1,000 lots were catalogued, was keen, and prices were good. Poultry breeders from all parts of the country attended. The auctioneer was Mr. G. L. Coxall. BROODY COOPS Three in one lot made £4 10s. There was ...

... RICHARD CARVER, the English-born racehorse trainer resident in Chantilly, has ninety- two horses in his yard this season, about half as many again as the average top-class trainer in this country. Chantilly, the great French training centre, will once again issue its challenges to our best horses, although it is hoped that we have a better chance this season of keeping our big prizes at home. ...