... IT was bad luck that the arrival of the new Hillman ''Minx'' for test coincided with a particularly shocking week-end from the weather point of view, with the result that no real speed test or long run was feasible. This, how ever, had its compensations in the fact that the opportunity arose to test the new ''Minx'' in bad conditions. And, after all, a good deal of motoring in these Islands is ...

... Family Group: The Hodge brothers are well known beyond Hertfordshire, in which county five of them farm some 2,300 acres, as successful breeders and exhibitors of cattle. This old photograph from the family album shows them, as youngsters, with their parents and brothers and sisters. Left to right, standing, are: H. R. Hodge, of Buck- land Bury, Buntingford, breeder and exhi bitor of British ...

... Self-Contained Hotels By ASHLEY COURTENAY IN my last article in the January 19 issue of Sport and Country, I replied to some of the enquiries from readers who wanted hotels which in the off- season provide indoor games and pastimes such as squash racquets. It may be because we had such a wet summer last year, but there has certainly been a perceptible flow of enquiries (once the New Year began ...

... By A. W. P. Robertson SO the last of the old cocks has flown over the guns, or run back between the beaters. The all-clear has sounded in the pheasant world, and once more they can walk abroad in tolerable safety. And how well they know it. For two consecutive days this winter a ring-necked warrior paraded on the lawn, and even preened himself on my log Christmas Day, of course, and the ...

... By John Duggan IN the 1920's and '30's the Irish Army was the backbone of the Naas Harriers Hunt Club, and Army officers were invariably Masters of the Hounds. Colonel J. V. Lawless, Colonel Fahy, Commandant Heffer- nan and Commandant W. Rea were Masters whose names particularly spring to mind. In those days, Irish Army officers were allowed to keep and stable their horses for a shilling a day ...

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... By Forceps At a time when many farmers are giving up sheep on account of worrying by dogs a subject discussed elsewhere in this issue others are going in for sheep for the first time, or after a long interval, and perhaps wondering whether the new insecticides, and new ways of applying them, have revolutionised sheep husbandry or not. For such people we venture to offer, in the article below, ...

... By Our Fashion Editress A SOFTLY-TAILORED suit in one of the attractive lightweight materials is particularly useful at this time of the year, for a top-coat is easily slipped over it without being unduly bulky. And later on, when we can hope for more reliable weather instead of just an occasional burst of winter sunshine, and top-coats are discarded, the suit will look equally at home in town ...

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... SHEEP- WORRYING continues, usually because dogs have escaped temporarily (especially at dawn and dusk) from their owners' control; sometimes, but much less often, because permanent strays are roaming abroad. The result of a raid is so horrify ing that no one who has seen it is likely to forget it. The financial loss to a farmer whose flocks have been ravaged is not to be easily calculated, nor ...

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