... After The Royal Some Suggestions For A Holiday Wardrobe THE West Country has always had a magnetic attraction for the holidaymaker, and probably many of our readers, going to Newton Abbot for the Royal, will decide to spend a few more days in that delightful corner of England. Most of us want to travel light these days, but since we can never be certain of the weather that holiday wardrobe ...

... Lord Fortescue West Country Farmer And President Of The Royal Agricultural Society Of England AS the traveller, poised high on the South Molton road above the winding waters of the Barle, turns the last bend before dropping steeply down into Simons bath, he is confronted with a magnificent sweep of Exmoor across the valley. Those who pause and think romantically that this is an unchanged view ...

... By Naomi And Bill Eliovson SOUTH AFRICA'S forty-first annual Rand Show brought home to visitors from the United Kingdom how some of the foremost bloodlines of British live- stock have helped the Union to establish a reputation as the Stud Farm of Africa. The Rand. the greatest Show on the African continent, lasts for ten days and this year attracted a record crowd of 383,704 farmers and ...

... A WIDE range of agricultural and horticultural trade and educational exhibits and well-supported horse classes drew larger crowds to the Royal Counties Show at Guildford than might have been expected in view of the absence of cattle and other cloven-hoofed entries because of foot-and-mouth precautions. On the opening day there were 7,306 people present, only 1,300 fewer than at last year's ...

... By E. Montgomerie-Neilson THERE will be many on the way to this year's Royal Show at Stover Park, South Devon, once the seat of the Templer family and of the St. Maurs, who will cross the River Teign from one direction or another. Some as anglers, on a glimpse of this attrac tive water, will dwell on the possi bilities of an unfamiliar stream. As a secondary West Country salmon river, in ...

... WHEN you think of Devon- as, indeed, a very large number of people 'will do this year, not only for the Royal Show but for holidays, since foreign travel is so limited- you think first of its lovely moors and lanes, its beaches and cliffs, and its cream and its cider. But there is also an historic motoring event in Devon which has been held for the last forty-four years that is, the Motor ...

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... THE greatly-advertised French invasion was foiled on the ancient Epsom Downs. Only one of the eight French-trained candidates in the Derby finished in the first three M. Dupre's Faubourg II. An unprecedented run on the winner caused his price to recede to favouritism, insisted on by the public. Xulyar leapt ahead of the betting on the French candidates Silnet, Argur and Thunderhead II. and ...

... THE Epsom racing does not settle all our problems, any more than the decision of the Two Thousand Guineas at Newmarket did. On the other hand, we have cause to bless the day when the first race for the Derby Stakes was established, so providing a permanent means for measur ing the worth of every season's horses. It does not matter much, to my mind, whether we regard the Derby as a milestone or ...

... PRESTWICK the week of the 1952 Amateur Championship; this busy, interesting little seaside town, I can feel, is bustling with excitement as I arrive to watch our great amateur festival, and the whole countryside is looking for some Scottish successes. The course or, rather, the links of the Prestwick Club are dry, no rain to speak of having fallen for three weeks. This is very unusual in these ...

... Dry -Rot Its Nature, Prevention and Treatment ADDRESSING the Royal Society of Arts last year, Dr. W. P. K. Findlay, of the Forest Products Research Laboratory, said: I think dry-rot became a serious problem when softwood began to replace the much more durable oak formerly used in most of our buildings, and it is interesting to note that the first references to dry-rot in buildings occur in ...

... Sir, The Spanish Question, during Chelsea Show, was the one so frequently asked that exhibitors mostly kept the right forefinger ready pointed towards the north end of main avenue. We believe we answered it more often than most, because apparently most visitors to the show are innate conservatives they automatically turned right on entering the Hospital grounds and we, at the beginning of the ...