... RECENTLY, the team of experts set up by the University Colleges of Aberyst wyth and Bangor, in conjunction with the Agricultural Research Council, to carry out an intensive study of bracken poisoning in Wales, issued its interim report. The findings of six years of work are such as to make Welsh hill farmers fully conscious of the menace presented by the ever-increasing spread of bracken. ...

... GOODWOOD WEEK will be over when these notes appear, but readers, I hope, will, nevertheless, welcome the record of Ascot races which is given in pictorial form on this and preceeding pages. I could wish that it were more complete, but, even so, I am sure that it will be the best record of a notable week of sport. I imagine that my equestrian colleague (a title which, I observe. The Times ...

... From. Our Special Correspondent IT is an old saying that one plants trees for posterity. The principal exception perhaps is the garden tree-- the apple, pear and plum-- where the object is not growth, but fruit. But the time factor-- the long wait as it were operates here, too, in one very definite sphere of fruit culture. That is in the evolu tion of new varieties. The evolution and testing ...

... GUERNSEY'S annual cattle show for the championships of the island breed was held by the Royal Guernsey Agricultural and Horticultural Society in the beauti ful grounds of Saumarez Park, formerly the home of Admiral Lord de Saumarez, and now the property of the islanders. H.E. the Lieu tenant-Governor of Guernsey, Air Marshal Sir Thomas Elmhirst, K.B.E., C.B., A.F.C., attended with Lady ...

... HAVERFORDWEST, in that scenically beautiful area known as Little England Beyond Wales, is surely one of the most remote towns to be visited by the Royal Welsh Show in its perambu lations round the Principality, yet this 1955 show was one of the most successful in every way since the war. The sun shone brilliantly for practically the whole of the three days and by the second evening it was ...

... THERE were increased entries in each of the four classes at the Dorset Down Sheep Breeders' Association's annual show and sale of ram lambs and shearling rams at Dorchester, and the sheep were in excellent con dition. Top price of the day was ^130 4s. paid for Messrs. D. and E. J. Farley's Champion Shear ling ram which had been breed champion at the Royal Show. The Champion Ram Lamb made /105 ...

... The Hounds at I Peterborough THE hound shows, which take place within the precincts of the Agricultural show ground, serve several purposes. Of course, they are social occasions, and very enjoyable ones, but they also enable Masters and huntsmen to meet, exchange opinions, and, perhaps, to form fresh estimates of the hounds they are breeding; they can, in the light of after- reflection, decide ...

... THE Irish Setter Association, England, and the Setter and Pointer Club held trials on grouse at Crosby Fell, but unfortu nately conditions were far from good there was no scent, and game was rather scarce. The winner of the Puppy Stake, Mrs. Nagle's and Miss Clark's Sulhampstead Belle d'Or, put up a very good performance, and there was a clear-cut winner of the All-Aged Stake in Captain ...

... By Our Fashion Editress THE poor summers of the past few years have not encouraged the amassing of a large num ber of summer clothes and when August ap proached we began to look toward Autumn styles. But this year's July heat-wave will have made heavy demands on a limited wardrobe, and so we continue to show cotton dresses in the be lief that the summer weather will continue through August and ...

... PRACTICE week is the best part of the show for all the players; old friend ships are renewed and new ones made. With so many overseas players in the field, international four-ball matches were con tested keenly on both courses, and the holidaymakers enjoyed a free golf spectacle from right inside the players' pockets, for there is no staying behind the ropes, as in the real thing. Wonderful ...

... The Humber Hawk Mk.VI. WHAT a fine car the Humber Hawk is-- a product of which the makers, the Rootes Group, should be proud. It was not until late in the afternoon that the car was collected for test. The route chosen from London lay through Bicester, Banbury, Stratford-on-Avon, Worcester, Bridgnorth, Whit church, Chester, Birkenhead and the Mersey Tunnel into Liverpool for the Grand Prix, ...

... WITH QANTAS, S.A.A. AND 1EAL Majestic you don't know what luxury air travel is. The most comfortable armchair you ever snuggled down in the most magnificent food and wine you ever dreamed of an eleg air-conditioned cabin, and really personal attention, all the It's a wonderful way to travel. Frequent flights by First Class Constellations the Middle India, Pakistan and Ceylon the Far East, ...