... IN Sport Country of January 21, 1944, we reproduced on our frontispiece a photograph of Manningford Faith Jan Graceful, with the heading, Hopes of a World Record. This remarkable cow had then already given over 2,000 gallons in 160 days. She finished that lactation by yielding 3,829 gallons of milk in 365 days, and was still giving 8 gallons daily, thus breaking the British Friesian Milking ...

... MR. ALEC HOBSON, Secretary of the Royal Agricultural Society of Eng land, has just paid a flying visit to Canada and the United States, where he saw the two great pre-Christmas fat stock shows at Toronto and Chicago. Some of his im pressions were broadcast in the On Your Farm programme of Thursday, Decem ber 15, but put on the air at 12.20 p.m., many who would have liked to hear him could ...

... AT Brandon Wood Farm, near Coventry, the area winners of the annual Ferguson ploughing com petitions met on Saturday, December 17, for the Grand Final of the 1949 ploughing match. The thirteen men had come from all parts of the British Isles and, as was to be expected, the standard of ploughing was an object lesson to all who saw their work. The judges, after the event, stated that the ...

... j The East of i England. Cup By H. Edwards Clarke SOME day you must come and see how we course in East Anglia. How often, I wonder, has this invitation been put to me at Altcar and Druids Lodge by coursing enthusiasts from this traditional stronghold of the sport? So pressing had they become that last week I availed myself of the most recent offer of hospitality and attended the East of ...

... I DO not know any more than any other person does what will be the percentage of golfers using grips on their clubs that have long since seen their freshest and tackiest days. This point has come to my mind at this season of the year, because in the colder weather, grips which all summer have been satisfactory, suddenly become as difficult to hold on to as a block of ice. Once tne hands get ...

... YOUNG FARMERS' CLUB members to-day have more opportunities for judging dairy cattle than beef animals, but the results of the Y.F.C. cattle and sheep judging contests at Smithfield Show indicated that some of them have an excellent idea of the type most suited for the butcher. Shropshire Y.F.C. gained 1,025 marks out of a possible- 1,170, leading the twenty- two teams of three. The standard, ...

... 44 LIBYA THANKS ALL NATIONS THAT SUPPORTED HER LIBERTY Arabs parading through the streets of Tripoli carrying a banner proclaiming their thankfulness at the United Nations decision. On the previous day the General Assembly of the United Nations, meeting at Flushing Meadow. New York, agreed by 48 votes to 1 with nine abstentions, that the former Italian colony of Libya should be independent by ...

... ■rrmgwH1 v 40 'T. A NEW TOWNSHIP RISES IN NORTH CENTRAL WYOMING This permanent camp in the mountains accommodates construction workers on the Boysen Dam, which is being built on the Big Horn River to provide irrigation, generate power and exercise flood and silt control. When the dam is completed in 1952 the camp will provide homes for the maintenance staff. Work was begun on the dam in 1946, ...

... SYRIAN WOMEN GO TO THE POLLS FOR THE FIRST TIME IN THEIR HISTORY Voting in progress in Damascus in an election fraught with considerable consequence for the Syrian people. On the right is Miss Amal Abdul Kader, of the famous Abdul Kader family of Algeria. She is the head of a Damascus girls' school. There were 470 candidates at the election for 1 1 4 seats in the new Constituent Assembly, ...

... /-6E3$\ CIGARS IN SEALED TUBES THE IDEAL P A C K I N G F 0 R A L L CLIMATES ACTUAL SIZE Ah INCHES 3'- I:ach 15^- Per Packet of 5 CIGARS L.G 2. ...

... I BB1 KEEElp i wamgggm pieces o( Cornwall, the west coas of Scotland, the Lake District North Wales, Italy ant) the Mediter ranean all welded into a terrain of 1 some 20 miles by 30 truly a nS cosm of lovely places. That was ho one Commander-in-Chief Governor of Hong Kong faoM the Colony during his tenure of oHice in the '30's. Britain s last citadel the Far East is, indeed, P>a ol great ...

... Fourteen monks from the Benedic tines of Prinknash Abbey, near Gloucester, have started a twenty-five- year task in restoring the 700-vear- old ruined Pluscarden Priory, near Elgin, Scotland. It is their hope that when the work has been completed, the old Priory will once again be a flourishing Benedictine community of fifty or sixty monks. The ruined Priory has been pre sented to the ...