... k COUNTRY 'W4 feL. A Dorset shepherd with his collie, leading Hampshire Down ewes to new pastures near Blandford. Photographed by John Tarlton. OUR COVER PICTURE: ...

... Sir, The valley of the River Wylye, in Wiltshire, extends for 18 miles from Warminster down to Wilton, and in this distance there are twenty-four parishes. These are parcelled out in long, narrow strips their length running at right- angles to the river. This ensured that each parish had access to a water-supply from the river a most important factor in farming in a chalk-stream valley such as ...

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... OPEN DAT AT STOKE MANDEIILLE B.O.C.M. Find The Answers To Many Poultry Problems OPEN DAY AT the poultry section of B.O.C.M.'s Demonstration Farm at Stoke Mandeville provides an ex cellent guide to current trends and innovations. There is always something new to see, and what a lot of work must go into the recording, explanatory dia-' grams, charts and graphs! One of these, incidentally, is ...

... SIDELINES ABOLISHED OTHER PEOPLE'S FARMS (Continued from preceding page) carrying out an experiment with a small batch of early- weaned Friesian-Hereford calves. They are being fed mostly off bought compounds and will be summered on grass, housed again in the early autumn, and finished out in the spring of 1962. If the experiment is successful economically it may be expanded. The beef project ...

... Sir, The flint knappers of Brandon; in Suffolk, are making gun flints for Ghana. They are carrying on an industry which has been handed down from father to son for many generations. In a shed in an inn-yard the knappers work with a leather pad on one knee and with a hammer they strike pieces of rock so skilfully that the flint flakes off just as it is wanted. The making of flint weapons at ...

... which it attracts at the same rate as other forms of nitrogen, is much the same as that of solids. But there is a very important difference. When the farmer buys gas liquor what he pays for is nitrogen in the ground. With solid forms he is involved in handling and haulage from the railway station if he buys in bulk by rail; un loading into barn, where it takes up valu able space which could ...

... AND THE FARMER British agriculture is now the most highly mechanised in the world. With one tractor for every 27 acres of farmland and almost 200,000 farms connected to the National Grid, British farmers have achieved new records of output and raised considerably the standard of living of those who work on the land. At the same time, however, they have exposed themselves to hazards unknown to ...

... Streamlining Clean Milk Production On A Cheshire Farm AN OPEN PLAN milking parlour with the collecting yard alongside under the same roof, and from which the cows (and the bull) can watch their companions being milked, is a striking feature of a streamlined production lay out at Golborne New Hall, Handley, near Chester, where Mr. Robert Ankers, with the assistance of his landlord, has now ...

... Sir, Some time ago you commented on the function of overlapping weather boards used on windmills to throw off the rain. Readers may be interested to know that this was one of the intentions in the ancient use of decorative plaster work, where figures and patterns carved in relief (as opposed to incised patterns) achieved this result. Some of the best surviving examples of this lost art of the ...

... For the first time since the war the hunter cham pionship at the Richmond Royal Horse Show was won by a lightweight, Mrs. A. L. Wood's Prince's Grace, a mare with a number of show successes to her credit, including top honours at Windsor a fort night earlier. In the hack classes both the cham pionship and the reserve place went to novices, the winner being the four-year- old Dark Invader, who ...

... FORD'S IN-DETWEEI CLASSIC Cars On Test j By Pat Gregory STURDY, SPEEDY, STYLISH, SAFE--that is my verdict on Ford's new Consul Classic 315 which is being introduced to the home market in ten days' time. It is Dagenham's answer to the growing demand for a medium-sized (and medium-priced) family saloon possessing a little more pep and performance than the breed of cheap, small cars which burst ...