... 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 ...

... i, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. The Great Dock Strike --It began in 1888. It was hailed in subsequent history as the winner of the Charter of Trades Unionism. The tanner-an-hour strike had four main issues: (1) the four-hours minimum term of employment; (2) the employers' right to engage labour at any hour; (3) contract work let to private contractors who tended to pay less than the company; ...

... In the archaeological wor, all eyes are turned to-i on Sakkara, with its sepn chral monuments represer: ing nearly every period: Egyptian history. Saldar, has a new importance; fo as a result of the finds mad by Mr. Walter Emery intl '30's it is now realised tls it is the true buria -placet the First Dynasty rulers, an that the so-called ombsi Abydos, for all the r magn licence, are really ...

... I ^M]^Ai/T|r^wJinf^flK 1 and 2. NEWS OUT OF EGYPT: Following the divorce of King Farouk and the divorce of the Shah of Iran, members of the Egyptian Royal Family were not seen widely in public for some weeks. The ex-Empress of Iran, who is the twenty-seven-year-old sister of King Farouk, has now re-married. The bridegroom, Ismail Sherine Bey, a member of one of Egypt's leading families and a ...

... HELP BY CARAVAN FOR DRIVERS IN DISTRESS Easter motorists who ran into difficulties were able to call on this new service inaugurated by the Automobile Association the Mobile Road Office. The purpose of the service is to place A.A. facilities at the disposal of members who are not within easy reach of London headquarters or an area office. At each mobile office travellers can obtain help under ...

... HThe problem of wild birds colliding with aircraft is as old as the history of flying. In fact, it was recorded in 1910 that an aircraft flying at Long Beach, California, collided with a seagull which got wedged between the fin and rudder. Unable to steer, the pilot lost control and was killed. Since then countless aircraft of all kinds have been damaged or destroyed in acci dents caused by ...

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