... 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 SHMMilt, BRITISH ^RAILWAYS Bringing it^^|| home to us STEEL for re-armament steel for overseas steel for a thousand-and-one domestic uses the coal i the ore, the scrap and the other ingredients that go l( the making of it all add up to millions of freight mild i each year. Yet, despite this call on their services, Britisl i Railways must still transport our daily foodstuffs, still' keep ...

... MANY of us, like cats, hate the rain and find rainwear a most depressing topic, but that it need not be. Those who live in towns may sometimes find it possible to dodge the showers but not so the farmer's wife nor the outdoor girl. Then opinions vary as to the ideal raincoat do you prefer the down-to-earth variety that makes no attempt to disguise its purpose, or the cunningly tailored ...

... THOSE who know Lausanne by having been to one of its famous finishing schools are bound to see a town made for young, giggling girls, with lots of cake-shops and students with coloured caps. Lausanne is all that but so much more. It belongs to the French part of the country, the Suisse romande, and the guide-book tells us very poetically that this part is a mixed marriage, Protestant-Catholic ...

... Tki i oft ifo U ifolfa (rmdim As the Bovril herds in the Argentine and Australia were England, Bovril has founded a herd of pedigree Aberdeen Angus founded to supply top grade beef for Bovril, every effort is made cattle, with the famous Erivin of Harviestoun as its most illus- to maintain a steady improvement in the strains. For example, trious and useful member. This breed is renowned for ...

... MR. ANTHONY EDEN, the Foreign Secretary, has long been Member of Parliament for Leamington, a semi-rural constituency, and has met Sir James Turner, President of the National Farmers' Union, many times. That there is a cor diality between these two leaders and a mutual appreciation of the other's qualities was obvious to those who attended the Annual Dinner of the Farmers' Union in London. At ...

... AN agreed plan to give the farmer con fidence, over a sufficient number of years, to enable him to pursue a con sistent production policy best suited to his farm, was demanded by all the delegates to the Annual General Meeting of the National Farmers' Union. Seldom has there been such complete unanimity among the thousand or more dele gates representing farmers from every county in England and ...

... Up md ckwn rf(X JmlL AFTER the twenty-fifth annual meeting of U.F.A.W. (The Universities Federa tion for Animal Welfare) the Director, Major C. W. Hume, M.C., said: In the defeat last November of Lord Elton's Bill for the prohibition of the gin trap we have lost a battle but by no means lost the war. I need not dwell on the cruelty of the gin trap because this was. admitted by every speaker ...

... By Dr. W. P. Blount WHEN an idea is born which might possibly effect a revolutionary change in agriculture, it is certainly worth studying, no matter how fantastic it may appear at first sight. To talk of developing a hatchery for piglets, instead of chicks, is far-reaching enough, but Charles Pfizer's idea goes much further. They, and I mean they (because Pfizer's are one of the largest ...

... THOUGH there are still many farmers who decry all this chemistry on the land, there is an ever-growing number who think of the agricultural chemist as their best friend and that some form of field sprayer is an essential part of their farm equipment. Tractor-mounted sprayers offer advantages for the really big farm where there is tractor power in reserve, so that a tractor can be tied up ...

... Pigs With the Minimum of Labour and Equipment Digging Their Own Potatoes and Beet FROM the County Farm Offices, Stoke Mandeville, came an invitation to see two systems of pig management. They are practised on the farms of Mr. K. Bolton and Mr. J. Robinson, both of whom have, as we hope to show, achieved remarkable results with the minimum expenditure. In both cases the story is partly one of ...