... 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, ...

... HER SOCIAL JOURNAL Court mews: Two audiences which he gave the Prime Minister, and two meetings of the Privy Council, enabled the King to clear up out standing Government business before the Court left London for the Christmas stay at Sandringham. The opening of the new-- and last-- session of this Parliament, fixed for January 24th, may curtail their Majesties' stay in Norfolk. The King and ...

... WOMEN AIR OFFICERS MEET AT A REUNION PARTY Past and Serving Members of the W.R.A.F. and W.A.A.F. Enjoy a Social Evening at Londonderry House Miss Olwen Davies (Hon. Sec. of the Reunion Committee), Flt/O. M. J. Clements Miss E. Hobbs and Miss D. Procter at the party at which H.R.H. the Duchess of Gloucester, as Air Chief Commandant of the W.R.A.F. was present Flt/O. M. Donnie, from Hawkinge, ...

... LORD PORCHESTER WINS A MEDAL-- A1VD A PARTY BY qualifying for the medal awarded to the best student at the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester, Lord Porchester also won a party anywhere, and for any number of guests promised him by Sir Humphrey de Trajford, Bt. So thirty of his friends gathered in Mayfair to wish him well in his future farming career Miss Susan Hornby and the Duke of ...

... Sabretache (Pictures in The Fire) WE of this Fourth Estate are trained and encouraged to be quick out of the gate; in fact, we are no good if we are not. It is easy with the Daily Boys, who get a fairly level chance of being topical, and can record someone having had his head cut off up to a time about midnight, or even later; but we of the, perhaps, more decorative illustrated press, are ...

... THEY WERE MARRIED The TATLER'S Review Evans Paget The wedding took place at St. Paul's, Knightsbridge between Captain Robert Victor John Evans, Welsh Guards, only son of Brigadier and Mrs. J. M. J. Evans, of Wishanger, Churt, Surrey, and the Hon. Cicili Carol Paget, youngest daughter of the late Lord and Lady Queenborough, of Camfield Place, Hatfield, Hertfordshire. Warrant officers of the ...

... AFTERNOON and EVENING FASHION PAGE BY WINIFRED LEWIS The divisible afternoon into evening dress most popular convertible of the season in black grosgrain. A fitted jacket conceals a topless ballet-length dress with gold embroidery. Lady In Black model from Harvey Nichols John Cole ...