... WE are indeed in an age of lively- youth on the land boys and giris intensely interested in what science can teach them and what they can learn from those with a life-long experience of stock- judging. But it seems that in the brand- new ideas when youth and experience both start from scratch, youth can hold its own, and sometimes, as here, show the way. In this year's International Plough ing ...

... By Sydney Moorhouse THE British Ploughing Association, formed in May of last year, is the youngest of our national agricultural organisations, but it is a lusty infant already making a valuable contribution to that branch of husbandry. There have, of course, been ploughing matches for a very long time indeed, but methods and style have been subject to so many local variations and changes that, ...

... I By T. A. Layton THE number of professional tea-tasters would seem to be enormous. We say this be cause whenever, at a sherry party, we mention we are a wine merchant, someone is sure to remark, Oh, I knew a tea-taster once; he spent all his day sipping cups of tea. This remark comes out like a word in the game of Consequences Wine merchant Wine-tasting Tea-tasting, What is interesting is ...

... IN spite of heavy rain in the early morning and consequent appalling conditions, the number of ploughs in the Isle of Thanet Ploughing Match at Sarre was a record 125 and the attendance was well over 4,000. The new class this year, the Championship open to Kent ploughmen who had won a championship during the years 1946 to 1950 inclusive, attracted twenty-two competitors, representing nearly ...

... TO Oxford came farmers from overseas in greater numbers than to any previous Royal Show. Nearly 2,000 of them passed through the Overseas Visitors' Reception Pavilion and, undeterred by the mud, toured the showground individually, in groups or in large parties, anxious to see for themselves the British stock, farm machinery and farming methods about which they had heard so much. Many were over ...

... im.wm T ft BASKETS Thomas Smith walked the sixty miles from Hurst- monceux to deliver the Sussex Trugs that Queen Victoria ordered in 1851. To-day the Thomas Smith family still shape white willow-boards into trugs, and riven oak is still weaved into Spale baskets with ash or hazel bools. SMITHS Some, to-day, rarely see a horse, but by combining modern tools and old they deal with a multitude ...

... And so to End the Royal Dance at Glympton Park MANY of the lead ing agricultural equipment manufac turers, industrialist 1 and engineers, at Ox ford for the Royal Show, were among the guests of Mr. and Mr,. Alan P. Good, waiting here to welcome the: a to their home at. Glympton Park, near Woodstock. There was dancing, cabaret and fireworks. ...

... RENAULT 7f rThe Renault engineers have produced a really solid achievement in the Renault 760 which is now being produced in the re-equipped British factory and distributed to a number of overseas markets. The engine, being at the floor free from obstruc- HHhH tions four passengers ride comfortably within the wheel-base. It is easy on fuel t00- stan ...

... ft I r^3B3Ss P ^KkBSskB^^W ^sbUB ,r'ft^-ft^Wfti5' BY APPOINTMENT SCOTCH WHISKY DISTILLERS TO H M KING GEORGE VI. 'ChioM r jMfo/ ...

... ONE of the last duties that H.R.H. the Princess Royal had to perform as President of the Royal Agricultural Society of England was the presentation to Sir Roland Burke, K.C.V.O. This was a portrait by Sir Oswald Birley of Sir Roland as so many know him honorary director of the Royal Show. So ends a memorable year in the annals of the R.A.S.E.-- the Princess Royal as an indefatigable and ...

... Eggs Washing, Grading and Preserving Table Poultry In The Past Year EXTRACTS from the Report for the year ending October 31, 1950, of the Table Poultry and Turkey Producers' Association, a specialist branch of the National Farmers' Union There were several unsatisfactory features affecting those engaged in table poultry production during the year. The continued maintenance of the basic feeding ...

... James Braid A Canny Player If Ever There Was One I NEVER expected to pen these words so soon, for, although I knew you were over eighty years of age, I had become, like many more who knew you well, to think that you would always be with us. It just means that we think of you in the past now, but there is no doubt that for many years your presence will still be here at Walton Heath. l spent ...