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... CONTENTS Page Letters to the Editor 3 ON THE FARM with David Richardson 7 SPEEDING UP MATERIALS HANDLING by W. H. Cashmore CBE 9 CLAIMING LAND BACK FROM THE SEA by Elizabeth Stern 13 GETTING THE BEST OUT OF THE VARIETIES by George Barrows 19 A PLACE FOR MAIZE IN THE ROTATION? 23 THE SHAPE OF BUILDINGS TO COME by F. J. W. Winship 24 PRECISION IN DRYING AND STORAGE by Hugh Tilley 28 COLD WAR ...

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... ADVERTISERS INDEX F C Reader Page Service Nos. Nos. Alfa-Laval Co. Ltd. inside back 35 Allen Hanburys Limited back cover 53 Allmet (Leeds) Ltd. 110 21 E. H. Bentall Co. Ltd 108 19 Blanch Lely Ltd. 84 13 British Oil Cake Mills Ltd 116 24 British Seeds Council 127 37 Butyl Products Ltd. 110 20 Colman Co. (Agricultural) Ltd. 120 29 Conder Engineering Co. Ltd 62 2 County Commercial Cars Ltd inside ...

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... PRODUCT FINDING INDEX Page Nos. Battery Charger 119 Buildings 119, 123 Car equipment 130 Chainsaws 125 Combine harvesters 73, 82, insert Crop protection chemicals 86,100, 113, 119, 121, 122, 124, 129 Crop sprayers 84, 123 Cultivators 73, 82, insert, 130 Ditcher 120 Drills 73, insert Gates, farm 130 Feed 116 Feed (poultry) 66, 124 Fertilisers 77, 115 Fertiliser spreaders 124 Forage box 64 ...

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... ADVERTISERS' INDEX F&C Reader Page Service Nos. Nos. Agricultural Development Association inside back cover 80 Allen Hanbury Ltd. 12 22 Asmer Seeds Limited 34 49 Atcost Ltd. 23 40 BASF United Kingdom Ltd. inset 90 Baywood Chemicals Limited 71,73,75 66 E. H. Bentall Co. Ltd 28 44 Fredk. Braby Co. Ltd. 49 57 British Seeds Council 7 35 Burroughs Wellcome Co. 46 52 Cary-White Equipment 50 59 ...

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... Principal Contents Page FARMING Cattle on Salt Marshes, by Henry Edmunds 314-316 A New Laying House 317-319 New Buildings at the Lawmuir Agricultural School 320-323 Other People's Farms Mr. V. Horsley's farms of Barnardiston, Suffolk 324-327 Women in Farming Miss P. K. Wolf's Weedon Hill Farm, Aylesbury, Bucks. 330-332 The Milky Way, by J. R. Hickish 333 SPORT B.H.S. Dressage Competitions, ...

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... THE ILLUSTRATED SPORTING AND DRAMATIC NEWS FIRST PUBLISHED FEBRUARY 28, 1 874 FARM COUNTRY INGRAM HOUSE, 1 3- 1 5, JOHN ADAM STREET, LONDON, W.C.2 Telephone: TRAfalgar 7020 Postage Rates: Inland 6d.; Foreign 6id. Second-class postage paid at New York, N.Y. 1 963. The Sporting and Dramatic Publishing Co. Ltd. All Rights Reserved. Vol. 2I6 No. 4 1 08 SEPTEMBER II, I963 PRICE 2/- PUBLISHED ...

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... Principal Contents FARMING Page Maize Silage for Beef 416-418 Leaning on the Gate, by Peter Fraser 419 Home-made Farm Buildings, 420--421 The American Approach to Farm Buildings, by J. A. Brown 424-425 Other People's Farms Lt.-Col. H. L. Dewhurst's Dungarthill Estate, Dunkeld, Perthshire 426-429 Women in Farming Miss M. Unthank of Intwood Hall, Norfolk 432-434 Field Contest for Junior ...

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... PRINCIPAL CONTENTS FARMING Grain Drying: Present Trends and Future Develop ments, by P. H. Bailey 520-522 A Comparison of Methods, by W. R. Prince-Smith 523-525 Staying at the Top: Mr. W. R. Jackson, Chancellors Farm, Redhill, Bristol. 526-528 Royal Smithfield Show Machinery 529-531 Other People's Farms: J. Cossins Sons Ltd., Tarrant Rawston, near Blandford Forum, Dorset 532-536 Over the Farm ...

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... Principal CONTENTS FARMING Page Money From Draft Upland Ewes 10-12 Vegetable Production As Big Business 13-15 Prefabricated Farm Buildings, by J. A. Brown 16-18 Over the Farm Gate, by James McGeorge 19 Other People's Farms Mr. R. T. Cole's Hayne Barton Farm, Cullompton, Devon 20-23 Women in Farming Mrs. M. E. Anthony of Berden, nr. Bishop Stortford, Herts 26-28 Traditional Devonshire Cider 30 ...

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... CONTENTS Machinery features 24-25 Machinery syndicates 32-35 Fertiliser spreaders, by John lllingworth 36-37 The national grassland demonstration 38-39 The national sugar beet demonstration 44-45 New machinery at the Royal 46-48 Russian farm machinery Other farming features 19 Comment 21 Can ourfarms be planned by computer by I. G.Simpson 22-23 Work study, by N. W. Diike 26-27 French farmers ...

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... Principal Contents FARMING Page Nitrogen Made All the Difference 436-438 50 Years of Stilton Cheese- making 439-441 Women in Farming Mrs. R. A. Comins, Codding- ton Moor, Newark-on- Trent, Notts. 442-444 Over the Farm Gate, by James McGeorge 445 Other People's Farms Mr. M. Reid's Maplesden Sussex Herd, Stonegate, Wadhurst, Sussex 446-449 SPORT Gundog Trials, by J. A. Taylor 458-459 Quorn Hunt ...

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... CONTENTS Politics and farming 231-232 Sir Miles Thomas 233-235 Party policies: Conservative James Scott-Hopkins, M.P. Labour- Fred Peart, M.P. Liberal -Richard Lamb 236-237 Farming M.P.s: John Mackie Labour Tim Kitson- Conservative 238-239 Borh sides of the Channel Other farming features 229 C nment 240-243 1' 700 gallons from 45 acres 244-246 L' Tour-saving accommodation for 141 cows 247 A ...