... MOST of the presents from abroad sent to Premier Josef V. Stalin on his seventieth birthday were either symbolical or designed-- by order-- to be passed on to members of the Sovietised proletariat. An avalanche of pipes had otherwise been feared. But one foreign gift was particularly intended for Stalin's own keeping. In the Middle Ages there would be spontaneous tributes by distinguished ...

... lllllBillJrAi m 1 1 WiTi r^l B ji^OAf#Al B K%B HThe process of refining sorghum, grains and corn into starch, sugar and high-protein cattle feed has always involved the dangers of explosive grain dust and of sulphuric acid fumes. This had to be combated by systems of air purification, and in the new plant at Corpus Christi, in Texas, of the Corn Pro ducts Refining Company a new system has been ...

... THE ROYAL PARISH CHURCH OF ST. MARY MAGDALENE, SANDRINGHAM, WHERE MEMBERS OF THE ROYAL FAMILY WILL ATTEND DIVINE SERVICE ON CHRISTMAS DAY The church contains numerous Royal memorials. The Duke of Clarence, eldest son of King Edward VII, died at Sandringham in 1892 Prince John, a son of King George V and Queen Mary, is commemorated in the churchyard. The church adjoins the grounds of the Hall ...

... J n the Law Society's recent annual report, a proposal was made for a review of certain northern Assize towns. It was suggested that civic business, now dealt with at Appleby, should be trans ferred to Kendal. Appleby, a tiny town, depends greatly on outside trade. The local authorities say that the Assize Court brings business there in many different forms that it would be a serious loss to ...

... THE Sussex Herd Book Society reports an unusual venture into the export market, in conjunction with an enterprising Texas breeder. An initial shipment of ten pedigree Sussex heifers and a Sussex bull has been made, ex-quarantine, to a Texas ranch where, it is stated, no European breed of cattle has as yet suc ceeded in establishing itself. The buyer, Mr. James Lawrence Wood, of Refugio, was ...

... ABERDEEN-ANGUS breeders in U.S.A. had an eventful week at the Inter national Livestock Exhibition in Chicago. They took the highest honours in the junior livestock breeding contest, the reserve championship (over all breeds) to the champion junior steer, and some other important prizes. In addition, an Angus carcase won the grand cham pionship this being the forty- second occasion on which ...

... Both in the Same World The Machinery Exhibits at Smithfield Show TO-DAY there is only one world for agriculture; every stock-keeper must also be a cultivator of land and every cultivator should be a stock- keeper. This state of affairs will continue it is well that it should. Thus it was completely logical to bring machinery into the Smithfield Fat Stock Show, not as competitors for the ...

... Lime -Sulphur Troubles Solved IN all the mass of advice sent out by national and private advisory services we have failed to find mention of one item of equipment necessary for every garden, smallholding and farm. That is a hole in the ground in some harmless but not too out- of-the-way corner. Lack of storage space is the grumble everywhere, yet tool-sheds and barns are cluttered with tins ...

... MR. ALEC ANDER SON, who runs a smallholding at Egton, near Whitby, has found a profitable side line guinea-pig breed ing. Mr. Anderson is a former regimental quartermaster-sergeant in the Grenadier Guards. His guinea- pigs, whose ultimate role is to benefit medi cal science, are weighed before being des patched by rail. The Agricultural Executive Committee allows Mr. Anderson sufficient bran ...

... By Lt.-Colonel H. Barrowcliff Ellis THE Royal Agricultural Society of Kenya's Annual Show is much the same as a County Show in England, but it has its vatia tions. The pleasant Nakuru show-ground is situated at the foot of the Menengai Crater with Nakuru township and the Soda Lake to its south. The Menengai Range is a vast area of natural grassland, and every year its grass fires are a menace ...

... THE HEYTHHOP HUNT BAIL Held this year in the Officers' Mess at Little Rissington Fflj. J. II Imhr. Mrs. J. Ih IT heeler. Mrs. I. R. Wilson. Fjl.t. G. Hampton Lt.M.A. Tihhy. R.N., Mrs. F. G. Hampton, F I J. A. R. Wilson and FjLt. Colin Barnwell Mr. i. Pear man and Miss Margaret McCullum sit on t in some comfortable armchairs Major llylton enjoying a dance with Mrs. Roxburgh during the evening ...

... Colonel Blimp, superbly portrayed by Roger Livesey (who sacrificed a fine head of hair for the film role) is the model for Fred Daniels's fourth selection. Here, he says, I used part of a broken-up set for the shower-bath 'prop,' to give the necessary atmosphere. I like this picture because it is as near a complete statement of that bewildered but lovable personage as I can make it. The ...