... THERE was an excellent trade at the South Midland Shorthorn Breeders' Association's Show and Sale of 120 head of dairy animals at Reading, and only two lots went unsold. Top price of 250 guineas was made by the Champion Bull, and the Reserve Champion, Messrs. Timberlake's Hastoe Cherry Duke 3rd, sold for 230 guineas. Sixty-seven cows and heifers averaged ^130 14s. yd., twelve grading register ...

... THE Annual Conference of Village Pro duce Association County Chairmen and Organisers at Templeton, Roe hampton, was attended by fourteen chairmen and thirty-six organisers, as many as the house would hold. Discussions, public and private, were animated and continuous from the moment of arrival to the moment of departure, and it was obvious that the movement was very much alive and an important ...

... FROME SHOW: Westontown Retje 5th, born January, 1944, by Dounside Lodkees out of Westontown Meibloun Retje, shown by Mr. W. J. Masters of Semington, was Champion Friesian. HOOK VALLEY DAMSELINE, born January, 1948, by Hook Valley Silver out of Hook Valley Damsel 2nd, shown by Mr. T. F. N. Alexander, of Wincanton, Somerset, won the Ayrshire Championship at Frome. BEST FEMALE KID at Frome was ...

... Moving -Time in the Plant World By Our Horticultural Correspondent How and When to Transplant Trees and Shrubs IF a living plant has a sense of feeling-- as to which there is always consider able argument-- then transplanting must be one of the most cruel processes to which it can be subjected. To uproot it and trans fer it to a new position, or even to replant it in its former position, is an ...

... THE Championship Foal Show organised by the National Pedigree Shire Foal Society at Derby Racecourse was an indica tion that the breed is not only continuing to hold its own in quality, but that the maintenance of a high standard is likely for some time, for the entries of youngsters were the largest received at these events during the last seven years, and the majority of them showed promise ...

... THE sportsman, as well as the farmer and the market gardener, enjoys to-day the benefits of the research work of the scientist and the agricultural engineer. A large group of those whose responsibility is the upkeep of parks, playing fields and sports grounds of all kinds attended this year's exhibition of the National Association of Groundsmen at the Hurlingham Club grounds, where they ...

... By LAND AGENT Rent is the cheapest thing a farmer buys. Old Saying. THE man in the corner seat put down his paper and looked round the carriage with the confident, satisfied expression of one about to propound an unexceptionable platitude. So we were not surprised when a moment later he declaimed: Everything going up again as usual-- I wouldn't mind laying heavy odds that none of you ...

... By H. Howes (Assistant Director, National Institute of Poultry Husbandry) THIS is the period of the year when poultry-breeders turn their attention to the selec tion of the stock to be used for breeding purposes, and the present time is opportune for this work to be carried out. It takes several weeks for the birds to settle down and in cases where eggs are needed for incubation there is no ...

... THE SURREY, WEST, AND HORSELl RE/ Gil HOLD THEIR OPENING MEET AT CHESSINGTON This celebrated pack, now nearly seventy years old, began the new season with a good day's sport at the northern limit of their country, barely twelve miles from London Although the number of hounds in the kennels at Dorking has been considerably reduced since the war, they are of excellent quality, and large fields ...

... , I'nolograpn oy Houston Kul one of the brilliant scenes from Tough At The Top at the Adelphi, produced by Sir Charles Cochran in association with Lord Vivian. This musical, with libretto by Sir Alan Herbert and music by Vivian Ellis, has now settled down into assured success. Princess Philomel of Pomania (Maria D'Attili) is seen with her escort Charles Lupin of the Foreign Office (Peter ...

... , now starring with Yolande Donlan in the first British film with television as its central theme, Eros Films' The Bodv Said No, was a clerk in his father's textile business until, at the age of twenty-nine, he persuaded the Wakefield Repertory Company to try him out. The result was a success in the role of Professor Higgins in Pygmalion, and for the next three years he worked with the ...

... THE SOCIETY OF CONSULTING MARINE ENGINEERS DINES IN LONDON Many Eminent R.N. and Shipping Figures were Among the Guests Air Chief-Marshal Sir Frederick Bowhill Master of the Hon. Company of Master Mariners, with Vice- Admiral E Sir Denys Ford, Engineer -in-Chief of the Fleet, at the reception which preceded dinner at the Connaught Rooms Mr. J. E. Church, Lord Howard de Walden, who is an ...