... DECEMBER 14, 1949 2V£jIf?X Mtd fa Safe FORTNIGHTLY (g) ILLUSTRATED SPORTING AND DRAMATIC NEWS ...

... Smithfield Hbast attb Present HORSE-DRAWN cattle vans trundle into the dimly illuminated Agricultural Hall, herdsmen manoeuvre their beasts into the pens, and be-whiskered, top-hatted and top-booted veterinary gentlemen proceed with their inspec tion. Such was the picture of the arrival of the entries for the 78th Annual Show of the Smithfield Club which made our frontispiece for the issue of ...

... AT THE FARl IS' CLUB DINNER MEMBERS of the Farmers' Club met, for the 107th time, for their annual pre-Christmas dinner in London, at which their officers and distinguished guests many of whom had spent a busy day at the Club's Annual Meeting, as well as at the Smithfield Show were able to relax in the traditional atmosphere of good sense and good humour, for which the Club is noted. The chair ...

... Sup re ie Smithfield arcases BEEF Crossbred heifer Aberdeen- Angus Red Poll cow). Bred and exhibited by M.T. Board, Llantivit- Major, Glam whose fifth champion exhibit this was. Live weight at 14 months, 7 cwt. 1 qr. 21 lb. Age, 1 year 2 months 2 days. CROSS CUT OF CI and reed fat 12 lb. 9tlb, 1EEF CARCASE Carcase 531 lb. suet caul gut fat and trimmings 21 lb. tongue and tail ide 54 lb. ...

... Photo Sport and General SUP HEME CEEA EE PEON OVERTOUN CHERRY FINE owned by W. H. Slutcr, Esq., Eyton Farm, Wellington, Salop. Won the Supreme Individual Championship Challenge Trophy; Barham Challenge Cup; Spencer-Stupleton Perpetual Challenge Cup National Milk Challenge Cup Rowallan Cup Eyton Perpetual Challenge Trophy and together with her daughter 44 Sheriffhales Fine Cherry won the ...

... By H. Howes (Assistant Director, National Institute of Poultry Husbandry) THOSE who keep poultry on farm and estate will soon be busy making the necessary preparations for producing the season's crop of chickens. The term chicken is used in its broadest sense because it will eventually cover all varieties of poultry. It is customary to provide for the hatching of a good percentage of the ...

... By Lieut.-Colonel W. E. Lyon SHOULD this heading catch the eye of the ski-ing enthusiast it will cause him no little horror and wonderment-- in fact, to spend a holiday in Switzerland in November at all would appear to be an act of lunacy, and yet I have rarely enjoyed twelve days abroad more than I did when I accompanied my friends of the British jumping team to Zurich and Geneva-- the two ...

... TRADE at the English Guernsey Cattle Society's Winter Sale at Reading was most satisfactory, 108 females making an average price of ^249 and 27 bulls reaching an average of £241. Highest price for females was 850 guineas, paid for Colonel the Hon. J. J. Astor's heifer Hever Mulberry 9th, and top priced bull was Mr. Vivian Cornelius's Erlwood Robert, born August 1948, by Malverley's Robert's ...

... The Distiller's Art How Real Scotch Whisky Is Made By David Innes WHY is an old Highland Malt Whisky so unique in its characteristics, and why, in this age of the chemist, cannot its subtle charm be copied? This last thought puzzled me when I was shown over a distillery by the brewer. It all seemed so simple: but such whisky does not come by the craft of a chemist but by the mysterious ...

... Other Cup and Championsh ip Winners THE Smithfield Show in its new setting was a success. Admittedly, in the vast air-conditioned Exhibition Hall of Earl's Court there was no tang of the farmyard to make the sensitive wrinkle their noses and the bucolic sniff with appreciation. Some regret the strong, murky atmosphere of the Agricultural Hall at Islington which so un mistakably brought the ...

... THIS was a great show for Chivers and Sons, _ of Histon, with their Middle Whites ar J Large Whites, both in pens of two and single pigs. It was their Large White which w is judged the supreme single pig and their pen if two Large Whites the best of all pens ov r 5 months. The Berkshire breed, too, were n the forefront with S. D. Player's pen the best- two of all under 5 months and with ...

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