The Kington Times - February 1918
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Kington Times 23rd February 1918 - Page 1
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| Date | 23/02/1918 |
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| Type | Newspaper |
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| Language | English |
| Area | Kington Times |
| Collection Holder | Herefordshire Libraries |
| Date of Publication | 23rd February 1918 |
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SALES BY AUCTION . By Messrs . EDWARDS , RUSSELL and BALDWIN . Leominster Horse Repository . On Friday , March 1st , 1918 , 120 Upwards of Valuable Heavy & Light HORSES , Consigned by Farmers and Private Owners . £ 51 offered in Prizes . Catalogues on application to the Auctioneers . NOTE . All farmers entering Horses must get à Permit to Sell from their respective Agricultural Executive Committee . Auctioneers ' Offices : Leominster , Hereford and Tenbury . LEOMINSTER STOCK MARKET . TUESDAY , FEBRUARY 26th , 1918 . AT AT Cattle and Sheep , 10.30 a.m .; Calves , 11.30 ; Store Cattle and Pigs , 11.45 . Entries kindly , solicited . EDWARDS , RUSSELL & BALDWIN Leominster , Hereford and Tenbury . STRETFORDBURY , Two and a - half miles from Leominster and nine miles from Bromyard . DWARDS , RUSSELL & BALDWIN are Ewed with instructions from Mr. W. A. Thomas ( who is giving up the farm ) , to Sell by Auction , on MONDAY , FEBRUARY 25th , 1918 . 74 Capital Hereford and Cross - bred CATTLE , 169 Excellent Kerry Hill SHEEP , 11 Pigs , Agricultural Implements , Gearing , Winter Keep , etc. The HORSES , which are all good workers , will be sold at Leominster , on March 1st . Luncheon ( by Ticket ) at 12 noon . Sale at I p.m. prompt . Auctioneers ' Offices : Leominster , Hereford and Tenbury . Registered at the General Post Office as a Newspaper for transmission in the United Kingdom SALES BY AUCTION . By Mr. R. H. CEORCE . R. H. GEORGE , Auctioneer , Valuer , Land Agent , and Surveyor , PROPERTY and TIMBER SPECIALIST MORTGAGE BROKER , VALUER and ARB1- TRATOR under the Agricultural Holdings Act , 1908. REPORTS , RECORDS and SUR VEYS carefully and personally attended to . HOTEL and PUBLIC HOUSE VALUER . VALUATIONS for ESTATE DUTY , MORT- GAGE , ASSESSMENT APPEALS , & c . PERIODICAL SALES of PROPERTIES . Prompt settlements in all cases . ESTABLISHMENT 1880 . Offices : - Croftmead , Kingsland , Herefordshire . Leominster Office Corn Square . IVINGTON COURT FARM , LEOMINSTER . R. R. H. GEORGE is instructed by Mr. ME.Shute to Sell by Auction , on the premises , onl SATURDAY , HOW THE LITTLE SHIPS HELPED . FOOD HARDSHIPS IN RUSSIA . A COMPARISON FOR COMPLAINERS . DON'T ENCOURAGE PRUSSIANISM . THE MAN TO BLAME ! EIGHTEEN VERY CHEAP DISHES . Lord Jellicoe has paid a public tribute to the men of the merchant service , and has told us how the merchant ships came to the rescue of the battleships when the latter were threatened by submarines in an open harbour . " The mercantile marine , as always , did exactly as they were asked , " said Lord Jellicoe , adding , " the deeds of the mercantile marine will fill a page of history brighter than any other page that will be written after the war . " FEBRUARY 23 , 1918 Free by post per quarter . with the Food Control Committees , sometimes with the District Councils , and it is important that every householder should get in touch with them . In smaller places where there is no such organisation it is quite easy for the residents to form themselves into a commit- tee for dealing with the matter , and if such a committee write to Lady Amherst , 35 , Park Street , London , W.1 . , they will receive direc- tions concerning the collection and forwarding of their material . People living in isolated farms should join in with the nearest village , and carry their sack of waste paper in with them when they go to market . As a rule the bags which are forwarded to the collecting : depot hold about 4 cwts . of paper , but no quantity is too small to collect . If anyone is inclined to think that it is not worth while to collect scraps of paper it should be remem- bered that these same scraps of paper are utilised , amongst other things , for making munitions for the men at the front . It is just the same old principle of Little drops of water Little grains of sand . Every little helps ad nothing is too insig ad nothin nificant to be taken to account in this , the biggest of all fights . THE MAN TO BLAME .. It is a great tribute to the little boats from the man who was Commander - in - Chief of the Grand Fleet , and every one who knows any- thing of the work of the mercantile marine will be glad of this public recognition from the man who knows better than all others . But to the many thousands who live in ignorance of the sea and the men who go down One is often set wondering why the one to the sea in ships , it will no doubt be a sur - man to whom we are indebted above all others prise to know that humble merchant ships and for every mouthful we eat should be con- little fishing smacks have been the means of stantly held up , with all those who are asso- protecting the great battleships from harm . Stately held up , all who are buse There is something splendid and at the same that is unjustified and unfair . time almost pathetic in the statement made by Lord Jellicoe that " if a submarine got in- a valuable collection of Agricultural Imple - side , whilst the Fleet was getting ready to ments and Effects , including Samuelson's steam away , merchant ships placed themselves Mower , Self - Delivery Reaper , Turnip Slicers , alongside so that they might receive the tor- Chaff Cutters , Wagons , Carts , Light Gig , pedoes instead of the battleships " while " scores Ploughs , Diggers , Harrows , Drills , Rolls , of small craft dashed about at full speed to Scuffles , Sheep Racks , Sheep Troughs , Pig keep the submarine under water , and , if they Troughs , Casks , Hop Washer , Knapsack Sprayers , Kiln Hairs , Hop Bagger , Hop Poles , saw it , to endeavour to ram it . " Sale at 2.30 punctually . THURSDAY , FEBRUARY 28th , 1918 , etc. , etc. Before the war , most of us would have laughed at the mere idea of the great battle- ships depending for their safety on liners and Auction , Valuation and Estate Offices : fishing boats . But the war has shown us Kingsland , Herefordshire . By Messrs . JACKSON & McCARTNEY HEREFORD HORSE SALES . First Spring Sale , SATURDAY , MARCH 16th , 1918 . 250 HORSES . £ 50 IN PRIZES . N.B .-- Vendors sending Horses are requested to apply at once for their Permits . JACKSON & MCCARTNEY , Auctioneers . Craven Arms and Hereford . again and again that the impossible does happen . It has altered our whole perspective of life , and taught us a new sense of values . And above all , it has forced upon us the truth that no single person in the community is too insignificant to be able to help in the great work of winning the war . Just as the little boats have helped to save the Grand Fleet , so can every individual help in this great food crisis . Once again we must remind ourselves that the nation is made up of single units and that it is of the most vital importance that every single one of us should do his or her utmost to keep things going through the next few difficult months . There are two obvious The first is to ways in which we can help . use what food we are allowed in such a way that we shall get the greatest possible nourish- ment from it - for the health of the nation is a great asset . And then we must submit to The Food Controller , Lord Rhondda , is the one man we have to thank for the fact that we are , in the fourth year of the war , able to buy the food we have at lower prices than anywhere else in Europe . responsible for this good work surely merits appreciation , not abuse . The man who is He brings , in such ships as are left for food árrying , more food to our door than we should otherwise have - and never forget the fact that food will win or lose us the war . He encourages the home production . He reduces the price . He distributes the available supply evenly to everybody . He prosecutes the food hoarder and the profiteer . PRICE ONE PENNY : STURDY BOYS OF TO - DAY play havoc with their boots , and in that respect they are only repeat- ing the experiences of Your Boyhood . A wise choice in the selection of the boots best suited for Your Boys _will certainly save Your Pocket , and quite possibly their health . We specialise in every branch of Children's footwear and our advice coupled with the unequalled value we offer , stamps Ross Footwear as a sound invstment . PROVE IT TO - DAY ROSS & SON , Ltd. , High Street , KINGTON . He does all these things with scrupulous For some of those fairness , without fear or favour , for the great - In bad weather pigeons will beat up to the loft taken into captivity . est good of the greatest number . exhausted . Altogether the King has few more prisoners the Great Release has come since The producers of food don't like him be- devoted and loyal , though unwitting workers , the bad , sad days of 1916 ; but many others are still enduring the privations and pains of cap- than pigeons . " cause he cuts down the price . tivity . How great these privations are can be judged from some prices recently quoted in a London paper by an officer's wife . Yozard sugar is 12s . a lb. , tea 24s . , rice 2s . 4d .. WHY AND WHEREFORE OF POULTRY KEEPING . " At Many ALLOTMENT CROPS . A MISCHEVIOUS RUMOUR OFFICIALLY DENIED . A rumour has been going the rounds during the past week to the effect that surplus allot- ment crops are to be commandeered by the The war is so big that nothing and nobody is The purveyors of food don't like him be- Don't ever miss an oppor- cause they simply want more and don't under- too small to help . stand that they would not be getting half as tunity of helping to relieve the Food crisis much without Lord Rhondda's protection . through the mistaken belief that " such and The hoarders hate him , for they are the such a little thing will make no difference . " black bread Is . 4d . per loaf , butter 6s . a lb. , Government . The Food Production Depart- enemies of their fellow man . The tiniest economies , the smallest savings of flour ( when procurable ) is . 2d . a lb. , a farthing ment informs us that there is no foundation for this report . The origin and intention of The man to blame is the Kaiser , and don't food , the lightest of tasks that contribute to dip 9d . , and a penny notebook Is . 8d . " But obvi- you forget it . the ultimate goal - Victory and freedom for readers of that little price - list must have the rumour are alike mysterious . ourselves , our Allies , the world - and the blushed with shame to think that they have ously its wide circulation might have an future generations ( and that is what Victory grumbled over our food prices , while the de- adverse effect upon the development of the represents ) are always well worth while . fenders of Kut have to pay such sums for the allotment movement , which is at the present the inconveniences and even the hardships When a fire is raging the great thing is to necessities of life . And many a civilian must moment expanding with remarkable rapidity . The advocates of poultry keeping are legion , which may be forced upon us , with a good and there is much to be said for their side of get it put out , and every drop of water helps have asked himself what right has he to be It has been suggested to the authorities that the report was put about by enemy agents to subdue the flames and to save the building . calmly enjoying plentiful meals while the men grace and a cheerful acquiescence , for in this the question . It is only natural that they Firemen do not despise a bucket of water - the who kept the flag flying at Kut are in such desirous of discouraging the public from culti- DWARDS , RUSSELL & BALDWIN are Grading and Allotment of FAT CATTLE AND great contest the morale of the nation is just should misunderstand the various claims of Government will not despise your mite con- straits . instructed to Sell by Auction , on as important as its health . the British public for more food , the orders tributed for Peace and Victory . They have been enduring hardship ating more allotments and so adding to the We have to take the food question seriously , of the Food Controller , and the orders of the fire which is raging with unabated fury and now what hardship there was in Mesopotamia denial should feel in duty bound to do so . The War for well over two years all the world knows food stocks of the nation . Everyone in a position to promulgate this but we need not take it dolefully . And the TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY , FEBRUARY housewife who serves her well - cooked " dinner Food Production Department of the Board of destruction will not only be subdued by the in the early days of the campaign - and we Secretaries of gardening and allotment societies Agriculture . Like so many subjects dealt united efforts of every single person in the have taken their hardships very philosophicare in a position to be specially useful in this with by the Food Controller , the case is full land . Don't fiddle with food while the world of difficulties and side issues , which have to burns - help to quench the flames . be carefully considered . The chief point for the Food Controller to worker in face of shrapnel fire , you are a poor If à pigeon can be a devoted and loyal war consider is how to produce and bring to mar - patriot indeed if you will not do some little ket more food at a fair price . CORN EXCHANGE , LEOMINSTER . 26th & 27th , 1918 , About 600 Lots of Useful Modern and Antique Household FURNITURE , including Six Genuine Chippendale Chairs ( with inter- laced backs ) , Tallboy , Hepplewhite Card Table on ball and claw legs , Ebony French Card KINGTON STOCK SALES . SHEEP will take place 10 a.m. JACKSON & MCCARTNEY , Auctioneers , ON FRIDAY , MARCH 1st , 1918 . Stock should be in the yard not later than of herbs " with a cheerful smile and courage at her heart is a far better patriot than she Entries will oblige . was in the days when she served up " the stalled ox " and grumbled all the time at the price of meat and the butcher's delinquencies . Once we should have said that it was a matter of small importance whether a single housewife cooked her dinner well or badly ; but with our newer , truer senses of values , we know that the woman who keeps her family the better . KINGTON STOCK SALES . well nourished and contented is doing a public fishing craft helped the Grand Fleet . Table , Solid Mahogany Early Victorian Side- Craven Arms and Hereford . board , Mahogany Dining Tables and Chairs , Piano ( by Collard ) , Drawing Room Suite , Linen , Plated Articles , Glass , China , Sundry Ware , & c . Catalogues on application to the AUCTION- Sale of STORE CATTLE AND SHEEP and service to the ship of State just as the little EERS , Hereford , Leominster and Tenbury . Sale at 11 o'clock prompt . BROCKINGTON , Two miles from Dinmore Railway Station . DWARDS , RUSSELL & BALDWIN have Harwood , who is leaving , to Sell by Auction , Ereceived instructions from Mr. W. I. On MONDAY , MARCH 4th , 1918 , his 8 Cattle , Farm Implements , Dairy Utensils and useful Household Furniture . Catalogues of the AUCTIONEERS , Leominster , Hereford and Tenbury . Sale at ONE o'clock prompt . THE GLEBE FARM , HUMBER , Half a mile from Steens Bridge Station , Three and a - half miles from Leominster . Allotment of FAT STOCK , ON FRIDAY , MARCH 15th , 1918 . Early entries will oblige . JACKSON & MCCARTNEY , Craven Arms and Hereford . Auctioneers , KINGSLAND If more human food is used up to produce thing to win the war . eggs and poultry than the food value of the eggs and poultry , then the less poultry kept He is able Now we are asked to endure a little ally . hardship , and though it is as nothing com- direction . They may very well add - which is cudured , some of us are fussing and fuming holder the Government is doing all it possibly pared with what those men from Kut have a fact that far from proposing to confiscate the produce of the gardener and allotment and blaming the powers that be , because we We are so intent on our ket . are at last being put on a ration that is really can not only to encourage increased production generous for the fourth year of war . What but to secure to the small grower the fullest EIGHTEEN VERY CHEAP DISHES . we need , we people who sit at home at ease , possible benefit from his efforts . Every gardener and allotment holder will Something cheap and nourishing is what is a wider outlook . There are many ways of keeping poultry , days of high prices , and a leaflet issued by the lost the true perspective , and we forget what ance of himself and his family the produce most housekeepers are looking for in these own feelings , our own hardships , that we have be free to use or hold for the future susten- but the great bulk of the supplies of home Ministry of Food entitled " Eighteen Very our soldiers and sailors have been enduring for which he may raise . If he desires to dispose grown produce coming to market are raised of any surplus next autumn , whether it be GAY VEGETABLE PLOTS . on the farms and not by the amateur who Cheap Dishes " will be helpful to harassed the past three and a half years , so that we mothers who are often at a loss to know how may ve in peace and honour . Thanks to our potatoes or other vegetables , or fruit , he will Every one can find time to work an allot - consumes his own little stock . ment , and many people who are able to keep simply to supply himself and neighbour , and to provide for their families . ( Copies of this wonderful navy and men at arms , we have be free to sell such surplus in the open mar- Moreover , proposals are under consid- leaflet may be obtained from your Local Food been spared practically all the horrors of war so reduce the local demand - and very useful , a small front garden in order have not the Committee ) . The recipes have been prepared up till now , and instead of grumbling as some eration for a scheme to enable allotment hold- ers and gardeners to combine in local societies with regard to the nourishment as well as the of us do , we ought to be proud that we , too , strength to undertake gardening on a bigger too . His small stock can practically be fed on with a view to bulking their surplus produce scale . But there is no reason why everyone house " waste , " but the farmer's hens in a with even the smallest garden should not grow general way must have some corn ; first the cheapness of the dishes , for food that is not are at last to bear a little of the brunt , and to nourishing is dear at any price . Many house- have a chance to show that we are truly the and selling it through county marketing a little towards the food supply , and that gleanings in the stubble , then the sweepings keepers seem to think that because certain kith and kin of the men who have been bearing organisations . without sacrificing ornamentation . In fact , of the granary and finally the sound oats , commodities are scarce it is impossible to have the whole burden of the war through these there are some vegetables which vie in beauty barley or wheat - for the " damaged grain things that are appetising . That is a great long years . Lord Rhondda has told us that with any garden flower ; and a cottage garden is never equal to the supply . mistake . A careful cook can often turn the we may have to " hold tight " for the next The best authorities claim that a hen can with scarlet runner beans and the golden be kept laying on as little as one ounce of cheapest ingredients into the most attractive two months . The prisoners of Kut have been flowers of Jerusalem artichokes grown up dishes , and this new leaflet gives eighteen " held tight " for nearly two years . against the wall will not miss its sweet peas grain per day , provided that 2 or 3 oz . of other recipes for doing so . In addition to the compare our lot with theirs surely there is not and nasturtiums while at the same time pro- than human food is available , for she must recipes some valuable hints are given for sav- viding two of the most nutritious vegetables . pick up nearly a quarter of a pound of rooding fuel , and the following directions for The colour which is made by wall - flowers and of some sort daily . But only one ounce of making an oven from a biscuit tin will be very forget - me - nots can be replaced by the red oats per day is 23 lbs . in the year , or , say 19 useful to women who have only a gas ring for The feathery tops of car - lbs . of pure oatmeal fit for human food . This their cooking . rots are more ornamental than any ferns which has a food value of 32,908 calories , though it are prized by gardeners , while the leaves of may cost , as oats , little more than half - a- rhubarb are just as decorative as the acanthus crown . A good laying hen will produce 150 eggs per leaf which supplied the ancient sculptors with inspiration for their column caps . So even year ( some produce more under careful selec- the most ardent lovers of beauty need not tion , but most produce less ) , which at an grieve at giving up their gay flower beds when average weight of 2 oz . each weigh about 19 lbs . These have a food value of 11,856 calories , leaves of beetroot . These ovens are perfectly easy to make , and all that is needed is a 7lb . biscuit tin , three pieces of strong thick wire , to fit across the middle of the tin , a couple of hinges and a Turn the tin on its side so that the top forms a door like an oven , make three holes in each few nails . If we a man or woman amongst us who will not hold tight and let no word of complaint be uttered . SALE OF IN - CALF COWS . CHARGES AGAINST HEREFORD FARMERS . RAISING THE MILK YIELDS . The importance of maintaining the country's milk supply is evident . The producer's prices for summer milk recently announced by the Food Controller are sufficient to secure for the farmer a reasonable profit on his sales , and it is hoped that dairy herds will be maintained at full strength . On the other hand , the supply of feeding - stuffs is seriously short , and it behoves every farmer to ration the cows ac- cording to the quantity of milk they give . The keeping of milk records is not a matter to be postponed till " after the war . " It should be done at once , and the farmer will find it is in his own interest to do so , for it is the only they can be replaced by vegetables both useful leaving a total loss of 16,454 calories , count- side , and make a shelf across the middle with charged with selling cows which were in - calf rations suited to the milk yields of his cows , certain way of ascertaining the minimum and ornamental . ing only the human food used to produce the pieces of wire - which should be the for slaughter .. and also of raising his milk supply by the FOOD , HARDSHIPS IN RUSSIA . With this loss in food value on every hen on be attached with a hinge , and fastened with a allotted to the Hereford Butchers Association , keeping milk records are forwarded by the Britain is a happy land in regard to food tered in a fat cattle auction at Hereford , gradual elimination of low - yielding animals . Striking figures showing the advantages of compared with Russia . Mr. R. Scotland the farm how can anyone expect the Food bent nail formed into a hook - or simply put on and afterwards passed on to butchers . Liddell , the well known author and war cor- Controller or the Food Production Department in the ordinary way and removed when neces- slaughtered calves were found , and compared Recodring Society , for example , owning 464 Food Production Department . respondent , who has served as a Captain for to advocate the keeping of poultry ? 8 Horses and Colts , Agricultural Implements , H. J. Pritchard nearly three years in the Russian Army , and producer who pays half - a - crown for his food , sary with a cloth . EDWARDS , RUSSELL & BALDWIN have received instructions from Mr. Richard Bemand ( who is giving up the farm ) , to Sell by Auction , on THURSDAY , MARCH 7th , 1918 , Well - Bred HEREFORD CATTLE , in- 31 cluding 6 Choice Pedigree Herefords . 31 SHROPSHIRE SHEEP , Gearing and Winter Keep . Catalogues of the AUCTIONEERS , Leominster , Hereford and Tenbury . Sale at ONE o'clock prompt . By Messrs . E. HAMMOND & SON . Horse Slaughtering YARD . The only place where animals can be dis- sected within 14 miles of Leominster . in Russia . them . strongest that can be procured . The lid may satisfactory . At Hereford , on Friday , John Williams , Green Farm , Preston - on - Wye , and Henry Lewis , Lawtons Hope , Canon Pyon , farmers , were Evidence showed that the animals were en- When One Milk with the weights at which the animals Were If there is any difficulty about making the sold there was a serious loss in the amount of cows , increased its milk production during the has an intimate knowledge of the internal situ- or even 15s . per hen , with all the cost of extra oven shelf from pieces of wire , an ordinary food available . ation in that chaotic country , vouches for the food and housing and attendance thrown in , metal meat stand will answer the purpose , second year of its existence by 36,000 gallons , Is now living at BROOMY HILL FARM , following information . may make a handsome financial profit on 150 For the defence it was contended that when though the number of cows was increased by An increase of milk to a value of KINGSLAND . Letters and telegrams sent to There have been queues for over two years eggs at 5d . each ( 62s . 6d . ) , and will not forego though the shelf is undoubtedly the most the animals were slaughtered defendants were two only . not the owners . They were sent to the mar- approximately £ 1,800 is good business both the Yard would be dealt with promptly . Queues for almost every com- this profit without a protest , while all the time Place the oven on a gridiron over a gas ring , ket , labelled as For it fat , and sold accordingly . from the national and the dairy farmers ' point modity - sugar , bread , meat , tea , paraffin , he is making a loss in food values . The defendants did not know the cows were of view . The report of the Scottish Milk Horse Slaughtering , Etc boots , cigarettes , etc. Poor people often had must always be remembered that a shillings- and then it can be used in the same way as If neither a meat stand in - calf , and if they did they were not liable , Records Association for 1918 is also interesting . o wait all night in intense cold for their worth of oatmeal at , say 5d . per lb. , produces any ordinary oven . The order The only Horse Slaughtering License in meagre supplies . The prices at the beginning 4,156 calories of food , while a shillingsworth of or a wire shelf is used , it is a good plan to the ownership having passed . stated that the " owner " must not allow the North Herefordshire is now held by H. J. of January were tea ( " cheapest " ) 32s . per lb .; eggs at 4s . 6d . per dozen only produces about put an asbestos mat at the bottom of the oven , and then potatoes , etc. , can be baked , but they animals to be slaughtered . who intends to carry on this sugar , 20s . per lb .; meat , Ss . per 1b .; one tin 200 calories of food . Put in another way , an must be occasionally turned , to prevent them Business in a satisfactory manner to all con of condensed milk 365 .; boots , £ 25 and up- ounce of oatmeal produces 108 calories and an becoming burnt on one side . wards ; candles , 7s . each ; potatoes , 2s . 6d . per ounce of egg only 39. So in producing eggs Once the oven has become well heated the All Carcases paid for in cash before removal . lb. Most cafes could not supply sugar . Jam , the farmer robs Peter of 108 food values to Letters and Telegrains : 33 , Bargates , Leo- honey , caramels and various kinds of bon - bons give Paul 39. And he likes doing it , for Paul gas can be slightly turned down . minster , or Broomy Hill , Kingsland . E. Hammond & Son Pritchard Auctioneers , Valuers , House , Estate , and Insurance Agents , Conduct all classes of SALES BY AUCTION VALUATIONS FOR PROBATE , Etc. , RENTS and BOOK DEBTS COLLECTED . Attention , Prompt Settlements . Offces : -Highbury House , Leominster . ESTABLISHED 1881 . PUBLIC NOTICE . Personal TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION . high ( in lots of 10 ) , in the Corn Square , by Messrs . E. HAMMOND & SON , onl FRIDAY , MARCH 1st , 1918 . Sale at 1.30 p.m. J. BUDD , Surveyor . cerned . were given instead . A two - course lunch cost is foolishly willing to pay more for 39 than 1. A glass of tea 1s . 6d . The bread allow- Peter gets for 108 . ance was lb. per day . Very bad black bread full of chaff , etc. Many restaurants gave each REAR RABBITS . BAGS ARE NEEDED . One of the many little things the war has taught us is the wisdom of having " a place Both charges were dismissed . MARKETS . POULTRY AND PROVISIONS . Ludlow , Monday . - Fowls , 8s . to per couple ; for 1s .; This Association tested , on the average , 23,376 cows per annum during the five - year period 1912-16 , and the estimated annual increase in milk yield works out at nearly two million gallons , or roughly roo gallons per cow . Farmers in a district are therefore strongly advised to combine to form a Milk Recording Society . Full information on the subject , and particulars of the conditions under which grants in aid of such societies are given , may be obtained on application to the Secretary , PLOUGHING PROGRESS . 10s . Pe Board of Agriculture and Fisheries , 4 , White- customer one potato boiled in its jacket as a The Rabbits and Game Advisory Committee for everything and everything in its place . " At the end of a Society's In spite of the unsettled weather in Wales substitute for bread . Clothes were almost appointed by the Ministry of Food wish to Even all the rubbish we used to call " waste " couple ; chickens , 12s . to 16s . year the Board issue Milk Record Certificates , the Food Production Department's Commis- unobtainable .. An ordinary lounge suit cost direct the attention of the public to the possi- has its place in the present scheme of things , dressed chickens , 16s . to 17s , per couple ; rab - hall Place , S.W.1 . and there is a special organisation for getting bits , 3s . 8d . to 4s . per couple ; butter , 25 , 2 ; free of cost , to those members who apply for bility of supplementing the future meat sup sioner for mid - Wales writes that " it is remark- nearly £ 100 . Soap cost 155. a cake ; perfumed plies of the country by the breeding of tame this waste into its proper place . The usual to 28. 5d . per db .; hen eggs , 3 to them through the Secretary of their Society . able to see the number of teams out ploughing , soap 30s . a cake , even in the rain and storm . " Cows in respect of which such certificates have One Flintshire rabbits , and local Food Control Committees method of conveying this waste to its right duck eggs , 3 for 1s .; pigeons , 2s . to 3s . per DON'T ENCOURAGE PRUSSIANISM . are being requested to bring this suggestion destination it to put it in bags . That seems couple ; hares , 6s . each ; pheasants , 10s . to 11s . been issued find ready buyers ; farmer mentioned that he had already sowed 400 acres of wheat and that it was all doing of war there exists some people who do not carry it out . It is almost incredible that in the fourth year to the notice of all who are in a position to obvious enough and hardly worth mentioning . per brace . FRUIT AND VEGETABLES . £ 175 was obtained at a recent safe for example It may be pointed out that for But like so many other things at present there well . " This , " says the Commissioner , is seriously recognise that there is a universal feeding purposes practically any non - poison- is a shortage of bags , and there are far too Ludlow , Monday - Potatoes , 1d . per lb .; a very large area for one farm in Wales . " The world shortage of food , and that even with ous green stuff , especially dandelions , clover few sacks to collect the waste from the differ- cabbages , 2s . to 3s . per dozen ; Brussel sprouts , So here comes another chance for 4d . per 1b .; artichokes , 4d . per lb .; leeks , 3d . 100 Wrought Iron TREE GUARDS , off wheat plants everywhere in Wales are said to the most perfect distribution , the absolute ex- and tares , is suitable , and all sorts of vegetable ent depots . look very promising . per bundle ; beetroot , 2d . each ; carrots , pars- The Yorkshire report says that autumn - sown tirpation of all selfishness and profiteering , and trimmings ( cabbage , cauliflower , lettuce leaves , the women with a little leisure to do an extra cereals are growing fast and promising well . if the U - boat war on shipping ceased to - day , and turnip tops ) , which would otherwise be wee bit of war work , by making one or two nips , turnips , 2d . per lb .; onions , 4d . per lb. the food situation would still be a menace to wasted , are thus converted into valuable food . bags . The material used in the making does The effects of the frost have disappeared and the nation . No corn is necessary , though occasionally a not matter , so long as it is strong enough to the early wheat and rye are very vigorous . hold the contents . Old scraps of cretonne or Some ignorant , selfish , and unpatriotic folk small amount of bran is desirable . " Farm work is well advanced . " speak of a meatless day as if it was the direst The breeding of rabbits can be successfully print , old curtains , chair covers , petticoats or In the report for Lines . , Rutland , and Notts . calamity that could befall anyone , often grumb- carried on with any kind of accommodation , pillow - ticking can be made up into bags we are told " it is very satisfactory to see so Even a patchwork early in the year that the stubble fields remain - ling insinuating that it is an absurd and so long as the conditions are sanitary , and measuring 45 in . by 25 in . ing are few ; while there are unmistakable totally unnecessary whim of the Food Con- hutches may be roughly improvised , or out - of strong scraps can be utilised . The pre- need for elaborate work , and no careful finish- signs on the landscape of an appreciable troller , instead of recognising the order as a houses converted , without difficulty . necessary move to combat the Huns ' starva- cise breed of rabbit is also of little importance , ing off with tapes or buttons . acreage of grass land ploughed up . The tion tactics . All true patriots obey without although the best breeds for table purposes are needed is strongly sewn bags which will not wheat , winter beans , and turnip seed crops grumble or revolt the orders of the man who the Belgian Hare and Flemish Giant . The come to pieces when handled . When made , In a circular letter , Mr. Bonar Law says he however , that the records . should be taken keeping of tame rabbits , which is at all times the bags should be sent to 23 , Queen's Gate has once again , on behalf of the Government , regularly , entered up carefully at each weigh- From Worcester it is reported that about is leading us in the Food fight . When we compare our inconveniences with a pleasant and profitable hobby , especially for Gardens , London , S.W.7 , where they will be to ask the people of this country to place ing , and the results frequently studied to as- Mr. A. W. Powell ( in consequence of having 20,000 acres out of the quota of 25,000 acres of the hardships and misery endured in Germany , schoolboys who can gather the necessary gratefully received and distributed for use to their financial resources at the disposal of the certain whether the cows are profitable and to give up a large quantity of land ) , has fixed new ploughing in that county are " practically Russia , and in the Hun - ravaged countries we food and generally tend them , can now be the collectors of waste . State in order that we may have the means to whether the diet is satisfactory . Don't en- made of real use in increasing the meat supply carry through the war to a successful conclu- formation on the value of milk records is given A COMPARISON FOR COMPLAINERS . in Board of Agriculture Leaflet . No. 146 . The Lancashire and Cheshire report says that have good grounds for gratitude . As regards feeding , the Food Production It is just about two years since the eyes of He adds : " At this moment it is more than ploughing matches are now the order of the courage Prussianism with your grumbles of the country . PIGEONS AND PATRIOTISM . the world were focussed on Kut , where Town- ever imperative that we at home should do Department have recently issued a most useful day in those counties ; three important fixtures defeat it with your loyalty and patience . SCRAPS OF PAPER . 80 Registered Pedigree HEREFORDS being announced for the coming week . If a pigeon can do useful war - work , you can , send and his men were making such a valiant our part in support of the great cause for leaflet ( Food Production Leaflet No. 25 ) deal- With the present shortage of paper it is whoever you are , wherever you are , whatever stand under circumstances of which we hardly which those dear to us are fighting and suffering with the whole question of the feeding of The result of borrowing has been most dairy cows , and including a series of rations It is nearly two ing . This remark is prompted by yet know the full horror . is rapidly assuming a tawny hue and the few very important that all newspapers and odd your occupation . a recent article in a London daily describing years since that gallant little band of English - encouraging , and I am confident you will save suitable for cows giving specified yields of Both of these leaflets may be obtained 151 : Sound and Healthy KERRY HILL rents . In the grass districts one now pieces should be preserved and sent to the In most how Carrier pigeons work for the Army . " A men had to succumb to the overwhelming all you can and deposit your money direct milk . Full particulars in next issue , or from PHILIP notes big brown patches on the rolling country - districts there are depots for collecting waste bird with shrapnel in the breast or a broken forces of the Turk , and the brave men who had with the State by buying National War post free on application to the Secretary , Board material ; sometimes they are in connection beak will gamely try to carry its missive home . kept our flag flying with such fortitude were pper who had res numbered administered ain No. 2 was No. 5 seemed engthy voyage when next a No- in his middle the voyage , or gone . By Mr. PHILIP DAVIES . 2 plus 5 . EAT . APTURE LL FLIGHT . teiegram THE FARM , SHOBDON , HEREFORDSHIRE . atier by a British oplanes in full SATURDAY , MARCH 9th , 1918 , 10 for a Sale by Auction , of hairmen sur- apparently meekly flew ith the . British Proprietor by s , 27 , Drapers look well . assured . ' " In and other well - bred HEREFORD the arable districts the face of the country - side and DAIRY CATTLE , also DAVIES , Auctioneer , Broad Street , Presteign . contrast . side where formerly grass prevailed . ' proper CORN . Ludlow , Monday . - Little business doing , at late prices . There is no All that is MR . BONAR LAW'S APPEAL .. MORE MONEY WANTED . sion . Bonds . " of England for a non - pedigree shorthorn cow . If it is not practicable to join a Society , farmers may keep their own records with a All very small amount of time and trouble . that is required is a spring balance to which a pail can be hung .. Balances provided with dials on which the weight of the pail is allowed for should be used , if possible . The milk of each cow can thus be easily recorded , and should be noted on a sheet ruled for the pur- pose . If such records are kept systematically , an accurate account of the yield of each cow during her lactation period will be obtained , and the farmer can distinguish between superior and inferior cows . It is important , Further in- of Agriculture , 3 , St. James's Square , S.W.1 . |