... Power-F armim. d Game Birds By Horace Phillips THE unceasing battle on our Home food front now finds British farming re sorting to a number of novel devices and not a few desperate expedients. And since, until quite a little while ago, shooting interests were happily related to husbandry of a more orthodox kind, some at least of those sporting interests may now appear to be endangered. It will ...

... AT Ashford, Middlesex, Mr. W. H. Dann, a small holder and poultry farmer, has built this all-aluminium poultry house out of sheeting, angle iron and tubes. It took a year of spare-time work to build, and Mr. Dann reckons that it would take two men working full time almost three months, but that would include the making of the nest-boxes, furniture, etc.-- the cost would be about £1,500. Mr. ...

... By Forceps IT is common knowledge that the geneticist has three procedures open to him: selection, crossing and inbreeding. The last is seldom fully exploited, however, and it was therefore with the greatest interest that members of the Institute of Meat and others, gathered in London to listen to such an authority as Dr. L. M. Winters, Professor of Animal Breeding at Minnesota University. The ...

... FLIPPANCY about the news that Oxford had twelve sur plus donkeys for sale was inevit able, if deplorable. Some people professed surprise. What more fitting place? Others said, What! Only twelve?, and pretended to disbelieve the state ment that the donkeys were not from the University but from the city-- left-overs from patriotic efforts to make Holidays at Home attractive. Whither the ...

... Skying the Ball and Other Matters IN the list of golf's bad shots, after the dreaded shank, I would put skying the ball as one of the most unsatis fying, if not anywhere near the most common. I detest it, apart from the fact that it pro duces a nasty, elevated stroke which causes one's partner to remark with a smirk on his face, Highest to-day, or That 's what causes rain, because it ...

... Cowfeteria Everywhere new ideas are being tried out in farming in an effort to reduce labour without impairing effi ciency. Apart from the experimental stations, probably the most active of innovators are the part-time farmers that is, the men who have made money in some other industry and have taken up farming as a hobby which they hope in the end will become a profitable interest. New blood ...

... By Our Horticultural Correspondent GARDENING is full of ups and downs. In times of stress and dis appointment there are always com pensating factors which redeem our faith and lead us on to new hope and enthusiasm. In a winter of exceptionally mild weather I have heard more complaints about vege table shortages in my part of the country than I can previously recall. Thanks to last summer's ...

... By Lady Ingram FARMHOUSES, more than any other dwellings, reflect their owners' dispositions and tastes, because farmers, the world over, are not only self-supporting on the land, but in their homes. They can turn their hands to roofing, draining and decorating, and their houses are nearly always kept in repair and beautified by their own effort. Very often farmhouses have actually been built ...

... Salvage From ail Australian Forest Fire BUSH fires, particularly in January and February, when the land is sun- scorched, constitute one of the greatest menaces to the farmer and the forestry official in the vast spaces of Australia, and news has recently been received of outbreaks in Queensland and Victoria which have resulted in the destruction of thousands of acres of pastureland and timber ...

... Racing Down Under TN this country, on -1- the other hand, studs are now on Schedule D. As re gards racing, the taxa tion is no less than 48 per cent, of gross profits. We hear a great deal, these days, of the Entertainment Tax on cinemas but racing, the out door recreation of multitudes from time immemorial, is harder hit.- Lord Rosebery, speaking at Newmar ket, December 6, 1949. Our ...

... The Prevention of Mod on Playing Fields By I. G. LEWIS, N.D.A. THE number of playing pitches which overlie soil of a heavy or clayey character is quite considerable, and when winter comes, one problem is almost certain to arise on these-- the development of mud. Normally, those games which cause severe wear of the turf are the chief offenders in this connection, and high on the list is ...

... The Goatliland Plough Stots THE North Yorkshire village of Goathland has long been noted for its company of Plough Stots. Although they can definitely be traced back more than a century, it is certain they are much older and that their dances are relics of the Viking invasions. At one time many other villages had similar teams, but Goathland has the only surviving company in this part of the ...