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One for Yorkshire: Musidora Wins the Oaks

... One for Yorkshire Musidora Wins the Oaks THE OAKS The photographer has chosen an unusual angle for making this picture. The fillies are given a pretty setting icith Epsom oaks instead of grandstand cement as their background. HUMMING BIRD, blinkered leads the field at the mile post, in company with Coronation V Musidora is just behind, on the rails, racing with Vale ofToicy. The King's filly, ...

Making good hay--sooner!

... Making good hay sooner Sweep your hay, before it is all dried up, to an F.H.' one-man string-tying Baler, and bring a precious crop home safe with at least two days less risk. By reason of the fact that a stack of bales is naturally ventilated, the crop can be got greener. The man with at least 72 tons of both hay and straw-baling through the seasons will find it a downright economy to do his ...

Jersey Tomatoes

... THE mainlander is apt to think of the Channel Isles as interchangeable except that one produces Jersey cows, another Guernseys, and that there used to be much talk of Alderney cows, and now they are never mentioned. The truth is that there never was an Alderney cow: it was just a convenient title for the Channel Island breeds, and though so near together it was not just an idiosyncrasy that ...

Hy-Line Chicks of America

... Hy-Line Cliicks of America By Henry Wallace, Junr. MORE than forty years ago my father questioned whether corn-show judges were really putting blue ribbons on the best ears of corn. If a whole field gave results like the blue- ribbon ears, the yield would be phenomenal, but he knew that there were many barren, broken or weak stalks and nubbins in every field of open-pollinated corn he had ever ...

THE Foreloda TYPE 'A'

... TkitA&l j UNDER FINGER-TIP CONTROL ALL THE TIME Pitents pending with this remarkable hydraulic loader you can treble the usefulness of your Ferguson tractor. The forelodaN with its range of quickly attached implements'opens up an entirely new field of all-the-year-round oper ations that can be carried out with the Ferguson tractor irtbc FORELODA implements include GENERAL PURPOSE BUCKET, JIB ...

Puppies at the Old Berkeley (West) Hunt Show

... Puppies at the Old Berkeley (West) Hunt Sho^ THE Old Berkeley (West) Hun Puppy Show was held at th Kimblewick Kennels, near Wend over, Bucks. Mrs. H. T. Morton the Master, was supported by he husband, Major Morton, who is iati Master of the Whaddon Chase Lieut.-Colonel D. C. Part, O.B.E. Lord Lieutenant of Bedfordshire judged with Colonel John G Lowther, D.S.O., M.C., M.F.H. JUDGING THE DOG ...

Gordon's

... iV (jio 1 QtuzAjy ^tCl4^lS $Up*tJl4fUL Gin Distillers to H.M. King George VI. M j Maximum Prices: Per bottle 32/4; Half-bottle 16/11. U.K.onty- ...

Vegetables and Flowers for the Winter

... Vegetables and Flowers lor the W inter By Our Horticultural Correspondent DURING the next few weeks job No. 1 in the vegetable garden must be the sowing of seeds and the transplanting of seedlings which will provide crops for late autumn and winter use. Failure to attend to this work at the proper time will almost certainly result in shortages during a period when vegetables are often scarce ...

Safely Gathered In: The Holbeach Reclamation From The Wash

... Safely Gathered In The Holbeach Reclamation From The Wash In Sport & Country of January 12 this year, we described the great work of winning acres from the sea round the Wash. The first scheme was pioneered by the King at Sandringham, and other farmers have been persuaded to follow the Royal example and turn treacherous, sea-washed marshland into some of the most fertile farmland in the world. ...

The Stud Book and the July Sales

... W THE announcement recently made by Messrs. Weatherby regarding eligi bility for admission to the General Stud Book reads that the conditions hitherto obtaining for admission have been rescinded. It goes on: Any animal claiming admission from now onwards must be able to prove satisfactorily some eight or nine crosses of pure blood, to trace back for at least a century, and to show such per ...

GEO. W. KING LTD

... 3EO.W. KING LTD. KING COWSTALLS WATER BOWLS Above: 959X Yoke Tying Type Cowstails manufactured and erected by KING. Remember Bull Safety Corner Ties, Bull Pens, Cow Pens, Calf Pens, and the new patented Yard Yokes are within the wide range of KING Equipment. Photograph on right is of a KING Camlock Automatic Water Bowl. KING Cowstails and Water Bowls are the best obtainable, and the demand for ...