... By T. A. LAYTON MANY, many are the varieties of wines which France makes. You would have to spend more than a lifetime travelling round the countryside from south of a line very roughly from Nantes to Paris and then right down to the Mediterranean coast, in order to savour all. lviaiiy ui uiese wmes axe wiiat !is called -petit vins That generally means that they are delectable to drink sur ...

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... A JOURNEY, the change in environment, slight differences in the food, the water-- all affect the quantity and the com position of the milk secreted. The nursing mother is fully conscious of this and resigns herself to a bucolic existence. But you cannot hold the Dairy Show without bringing the matrons to town, and a cow performing adequately at home may be in trouble at Olympia. We say ...

... The Bledisloe Trophy I for Teams THE contest regarded by the majority of dairy farmers as the most important of the show, the competition for the Bledisloe Trophy for teams selected by the breed societies, was won by British Friesians for the seventh year in succession. It was announced that in order that the trophy should not become the prerogative of the heavier-yielding breeds, the Council ...

... Open To All Breeds The Supreme Champions THE BEST SIX THE 1953 CORONATION CUP, awarded to the Breed Society having the best ex hibit of six cows by inspec tion, was won by the Ayr- shires. The group (I. to r.) shows A. Lawrie and Sons' Kessington Pearl 4th, J. Logan and Son's Beauchamps Prim Maid, Mrs. M. K. Ander son's Blockfield Navybell, Mr. Henry May's Shoreham Daphne 7th, W. H. Slater ...

... Breed Winners MILK TRIAL POINTS ONE point is awarded for every pint of milk produced in twenty-four hours. To put cows that have calved some time previously on an equality with more recent calvers one point is added for every ten days since calving, deducting the first forty days. A maximum of 12 points only can be awarded. For every pound of butterfat produced 20 points. For every pound of ...

... A TOWNSMAN visiting the Dairy Show for the first time must find the glittering array of machines and appliances a little con fusing. How complicated farming has become! What a wealth of machines and implements and gadgets the dairy farmer uses! The townsman, in his urban simplicity, stares fascinated. In his simple life, unless he be engineer or factory worker, such things have no place. Even ...

... THE best performance in the milking trials at the Dairy Show was given by Mr. A. M. Jones' British Friesian, Weeton Cutie 15th, daughter of Weeton Cutie nth, Supreme Dairy animal at this year's Royal Show. Below are the best results from each breed. BRITISH FRIESIAN Weeton Cutie 15th (Mr. A. M. Jones), 24 days in-milk, 99.5 lb (3.60, 3.98 and 4.02 per cent, butter-fat and 9.34, 9.14, 9.14 ...

... Plans For The Future C.L.A. and Other Meetings THE Country Landowners' Association recently held in London an Annual General Meeting and a dinner, at both of which some interesting things were said. Colonel W. R. Prescott, the President, mentioned at the former the considerable part played by the Association in the miserable Crichel Down affair, and speaking of ex gratia payments in cases of ...

... ATOP price of 1,700 gns. was paid for Penatok Apollo, a three-year-old bull, at the Hereford Herd Book Society's Autumn Show and Sale at Hereford. A total of 207 bulls averaged £161 13s., a record for a November sale. At the show and sale of females, top price was 580 gns. for a heifer. Breeders from Scotland and Eire were among the large crowds at the ring side, and animals were also ...

... RACING under Jockey Club Rules comes to an end on Saturday, at Lingfield Park, in the south, and, weather also permitting, at Manchester. The season opened on March 22, so that we have had the best part of eight months of it. mere is mucn to De said lor a sngnt curtailment in the number of days of racing granted to the various racing executives, chiefly because the meetings at either end of ...

... SINCE it was founded in 1939 the Benacre Flock, owned by Colonel Sir Robert E. S. Gooch, of Benacre Hall, Wrentham, Beccles, has won or shared a high proportion of the honours available to the breed. These include the Supreme Championship of all breeds at Smithfield in 1952, the Perpetual Challenge Cup at the Royal Show three years in succession and Reserve this year, the Breed Society's ...