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R.A.F. Producers Come to Town

... THE Royal Air Force, units and indiv dual of which worked so hard in the mos: diffi cult periods of the war to grow vegetable am fruit on their widespread stations, have r chei the seventh year of their Fruit and Veg tabli Show, now held at the R.H.S. Hall in V ncen Square, Westminster. Over sixty station: exhibited. Air Chief Marshal Sir Geo ge C Pirie, K.B.E., the Air Member for Supp andj ...

Up and down the land

... THREE points should be borne in mind before judgment is passed on the Anglo-Argentine dispute regarding the sale of beef. One is that we never used to have these arguments (fomented in the Press of both countries) in the days when the purchase of beef was handled by professional, or business, buying concerns. The Argen tines were our best friends before the war, and, in business circles, are ...

Food Crop Research at Kew

... KEW, well known to the public for its delightful gardens and famous in the botanical world for the valuable re search work carried on behind the scenes, has a little-realised stabilising influence which reaches far beyond the market- garden, the nursery or the forestry planta tion. Civilisation encourages the growing of a particular crop over a wide area with resulting benefit, if all goes ...

Hunters on Trial

... MODERN conditions have resulted in the reduction of the occupants of many a row of loose boxes to no more than one or two where once were a dozen or more. Many a horse, too, is incapable of the runs his forbears took literally in their stride if he is only receiving his legal sustenance. Yet the spirit of the hunting field or its attendant point-to-point and hunter-trial meetings is still ...

The Development of Autumn Racing

... THERE seems to be an increasing and, I think, a very welcome tendency for autumn racing to play an even more important part in the general plan than in the past. This is due primarily to the recognition in this country of the need for encouraging the development of stayers. The new move ment has been greatly assisted by the use of our great racecourse at Ascot which, since the war, has proved ...

The West Kent Foxhounds

... THE old-established West Kent Hunt much of the country from Wester- ham was hunted by Mr. John Warde in 1776 took over new kennels at Hampton House, near Hadlow, Tonbridge, in June this year and part of the building has been converted into flats for the Hunt staff. The Huntsman, Bob Champion (left), is the son of Bob Champion, Huntsman of the Eridge his brother Jack is with the Old Surrey and ...

Champagne and Fermentation

... It By 1. A. Lay ton IT is one of the phenomena of nature that the contents of a bottle of wine sometimes four or five years old will start a secondary fermentation at the same period that the sap is flowing upwards in the vineyards. Many a time has a turgid and turbulent bottle opened for a spring luncheon caused the purchaser angrily to 'phone up his wine merchant, only to be reassured that ...

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Published: Wednesday 12 October 1949
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 52 | Page: Page 40 | Tags: Photographs 

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Published: Wednesday 12 October 1949
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 9 | Page: Page 41 | Tags: Photographs 

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Published: Wednesday 12 October 1949
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 32 | Page: Page 42 | Tags: Photographs 

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Published: Wednesday 12 October 1949
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 484 | Page: Page 45 | Tags: Illustrations  Photographs