... I By T. A. Layioj WINE waiters can be a men ace: when a colleague dined the other day at the Sump tiferous and, ordering a 50s. claret, found that they had not got a decanter in stock into which to pour the wine (and fine old Bur gundies and clarets should always be decanted), he brought matters in the wine trade to a head. Lectures on the correct presenta tion of wine are now being widely ...

... THE show season has started and there is every likelihood that many of the events will be larger than ever this year. While numerous entries, avenues of trade stands and phenomenal attendances are a healthy sign which no one would deprecate, there is cause for regret that as the shows increase in size they become correspondingly similar to one another, very often with many of the same names in ...

... NEARLY ioo members of the English Jersey Cattle Society were among the many visitors to the Island Show at Springfield, Jersey, the entries at which indicated that the breed is main taining its high standard in its own country. In some classes the judges had a difficult task to make their decisions. The Female Championship was awarded to an aged cow, an unusual occurrence at the Jersey events, ...

... Insect Acrobat The Click-Beetle CLICK-BEETLES, or skipjacks, are very common in grassy places in summer, and their antics bring back childhood memories. In later life we tend to be not amused, having learnt that the click-beetle is the parent of the notorious wireworm. If a click-beetle is touched, it curls up its legs and lets itself drop to the ground as though shot. It seems generally to ...

... Robins are well known for their eccentric choice of a nesting site and they are as likely to select an old boot or a vehicle as a woodland bank. The construction of tfie nest depends largely upon the spot chosen and varies from a small quite neat affair to a large and untidy one. The pair of robins who decided to build inside a bedroom at a house in Ewell Surrey chose to erect an outsize nest ...

... THE Midwest Research Institute in the U.S. has recently developed a new process for exploding cereal grains into flour by means of compressed air or other gases. The invention has possibilities of revolu tionising the milling industry to the advant age of both the miller and the baker. The new process, which has been given the name explosive dissociation, differs from the manufacture of ...

... By A. CROXTON-SMTTH I Dachshunds have passed through several phases since I first knew them, and before that time they also experienced changes of condition. Starting life as allies of sportsmen, they were put to various uses by Austrian and German noble families, going underground after badger or smaller quarry, tracking on the surface or destroying vermin, and they would do the work of ...

... NUARY 11,1950 3*14^ TrM&leX Mut (te Safe FORTNIGHTLY (5f H0B9 ILLUSTRATED SPORTING AND DRAMATIC NEWS ...

... THIS new hive for bees, invented by Mrs. Denise K. Wren, of Oxshott, is now being tested out for migratory beekeeping at Kongwa in connection with the sunflower side of the groundnuts scheme. The tens of thousands of acres of sunflowers will set a problem of pollination far too vast for the local stocks of bees, for every sunflower head may have thousands of individual seeds, each of which ...

... The Cooper's Craft Its Traditions TN Great Britain, records of the craft go back to the fourteenth century, J- when it was a common sight to see the journeyman cooper trudging the streets of London and other cities. His cry was Any work for the cooper and hence he earned the trade title of journeyman cooper. His apprenticeship of seven years ended with the picturesque ceremony which we show in ...

... AVERAGE prices at the January sale of British Friesian cattle at Reading were in keeping with the well-known herds repre sented in the catalogue. Fifty attested cows j and heifers averaged ^182 8s. 6d., and thirty-four attested bulls, ^261 14s. 6d., the eighty-four head averaging £214 10s. 6d. The Elmwood herd showed the highest-priced female, and a Lolham bull reached the top figure among the ...

... HUNT fixtures fields and larj season, too, when tt numerous youngstet introduction to foil for an all-too-brief p satisfaction of welcoi signs of an increasii difficulties of the ti be long before the completely replaces BATTLE ABBEY was the background of the Boxing Day meet of the East Sussex Foxhounds, of which Lord Burghley is Joint-Master with Mr. F. J. Parsons. As is usual at this ...