The Kington Times - January 1918
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Kington Times 19th January 1918 - Page 1
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| Date | 19/01/1918 |
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| Type | Newspaper |
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| Language | English |
| Area | Kington Times |
| Collection Holder | Herefordshire Libraries |
| Date of Publication | 19th January 1918 |
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THE NORTH HEREFORDSHIRE ADVERTISER AND THE KINGTON TIMES VOL . XI . NO . 591 . SALES BY AUCTION . By Messrs . EDWARDS , RUSSELL and BALDWIN . Leominster Horse Repository . Friday , Jan. 25th , 1918 . SHOW AND SALE . 100 ABOUT Home Bred Wagon Geldings and Mares , Hunters , Gunners , Harness and Saddle Horses and Unbroken Colts . Judging at 10.30 a .. Sale at 12 noon . 251 in Prizes , Including £ 20 for Pair of Cart Geldings and Mares . Catalogues on application to the Auctioneers . NOTE . All farmers entering Horses must get a Permit to Sell from their respective Agricultural Executive Committee . Auctioneers ' Offices Leominster , Hereford and Tenbury . 4 . LEOMINSTER STOCK MARKET . TUESDAY . JANUARY 29th . 1918 . FAT AT Cattle and Sheep , 10.30 a.m .; Calves , 11.30 ; Store Cattle and Pigs , 11.45 . Entries kindly solicited . Registered at the General Post Office as a Newspaper for transmission in the United Kingdom SALES BY AUCTION . Tenbury ; and W. S. MACKINTOSH , Esq . , Peny- bont , Radnorshire . Auctioneers : Messrs . KNIGHT , FRANK AND RUTLEY , 20 , Hanover - square , W.i. By Mr. R H. CEORCE . RH R. H. GEORGE , Auctioneer , Valuer , Land Agent , and Surveyor , PROPERTY and TIMBER SPECIALIST , MORTGAGE BROKER , VALUER and ARBI- CRATOR under the Agricultural Holdings Act , 190S . REPORTS , RECORDS and SUR- VEYS carefully and personally attended to . HOTEL , and PUBLIC HOUSE VALUER . VALUATIONS for ESTATE DUTY , MORT- SAGE . ASSESSMENT APPEALS , & c . PERIODICAL SALES of PROPERTIES . Prompt settlements in all cases . ESTABLISHMENT 1880 . VALUATIONS O Offices : - Croftmead , Kingsland , Herefordshire . Leominster Office Corn Square . MR . • " IVINGTON COURT FARM , LEOMINSTER . R. R. H. GEORGE will Sell by Auction , On SATURDAY , JANUARY 19th , 1918 , Shute .. in the Hopyard , at 3 o'clock punctually , about HOP POLES in suitable lots , 16,000 by direction of Mr. E. E. The poles are creosoted and make excellent EDWARDS , RUSSELL & BALDWIN . stakes if not required for hop growing . The top lengths can easily be sawn up for fire- Leominster , Hereford and Tenbury . wood . Auction , Valuation and Estate Offices , Kingsland and Leominster . ' THE PLECK FARM , MONKLAND , Two and a - half miles from Leominster . DWARDS , RUSSELL & BALDWIN have ED received instructions from Mr. George Lewis ( who is retiring owing to ill health ) to Sell by Auction , on THURSDAY , JANUARY 24th , 1918 . The whole of the Live and Dead Farming Stock , including : 15 23 tter from the consult teh ng the pro- A further ents up to th regard to t it must be of rations . the Officials rd letter set hich soldiers rs . treated as rom January ients at the an increase mates ' num- age showing red with the ear . The e 6 ; 25 , in- The ase 7 . regard to he acknow- ur columns , entertaining Babes in the S. of thanks to kindly sent entertaining tried . or for milk , ( instead of stated that the contract . vere getting rought into avies Is . Sd . his contract . rted to be : I os . 4d .; nd paupers , 214 against ed that the d . , cheques net balance NS . ED FOR . eived from stantial in- cer , mainly fees . The n Officer of tor was £ 30 was paid . od . to rod . id as much d increased everything nwilling to had come . the work at urse ( R. E. mey ) in ap- ted that as occupations y had the ent having ey , was not plication it ar their re- er rate than ng to their duced . A ntarily ac- sed on pre- efitted con- they had stated that Head of HEREFORD CATTLE , Well - bred SHROPSHIRE SHEEP , Active Chestnut CART MARE ( rising six years ) , Collection of Agricultural Implements , Potatoes and Casks , 46 head of Poultry , Mangolds , a portion of the Household Furni- ture and Dairy Utensils . Sale at 12 o'clock punctually . Catalogues may be obtained of the AUCTION- EERS , Leominster , Hereford and Tenbury . HOLLYBROOK FARM , EATON HENNOR , Two and a - half miles from Leominster . DWARDS , RUSSELL & BALDWIN have received instructions from Mrs. Anthony , who is leaving , to Sell by Auction , on EDW MONDAY , JANUARY 28th , 1918 , 3 useful well - bred CATTLE , Bay Pony Mare ( 13 hands ) , Out - door Effects , Pony Cart and Trap , Harness , Dairy Utensils , Household Furniture , & c . Sale at ONE o'clock prompt . Auctioneers ' Offices , Leominster , Hereford and Tenbury . THE HEADLAND , DILWYN , One mile from Dilwyn and 3 miles from Pembridge . EDWARDS , RUSSELL & BALDWIN have received instructions from Mr. William Holder to Sell by Auction , on THURSDAY , JANUARY 31st , 1918 , HEREFORDSHIRE . TOWNSHIP OF LUSTON . 2 miles from Leominster and I mile from Berrington and Eye Station . Free by post per SATURDAY , JANUARY 19 , 1918. ( is . 8d . , payable in advance . SHEEP UNDER CONTROL . PRICES NOW FIXED FROM OWNER TO CONSUMER . By an Order issued on Friday night the prices of live sheep and carcases of mutton are fixed , The regulations come into force on Monday , on and after which day every sale will be controlled . Owners can either sell the live animal at a valuation , or may sell on the actual dead weight basis ascertained within twelve hours after slaughter . The price in each case is 1s . 2 d . per lb. upon the dressed weight of the carcase , to include all edible and inedible offals , in addition to the actual price realised for the skin . The sum of 1s . 6d . per head is to be des ducted from the value so ascertained , and the buyer will pay 3s . 6d . to the Government agent in addition to the value of the dressed carcase , offal and skin . This 5s . will cover the cost of distribution . Sheep will be slaughtered at Government slaughter houses . A REMARKABLE TRACTOR RECORD . A remarkable record in tractor ploughing is reported from the Spalding district of the Holland Division of Lincolnshire . It deals with the work of a local unit of 7 tractors working under the Food Production Depart , ment's scheme , during 7 weeks from October 12. The highest number of acres ploughed in any given week was 156 in the week ending November 23 ; the lowest 114 acres in the week ending October 19. In two of the weeks the total was 153 , and in one week 146. Tak- ing the 7 weeks the average for the unit was 141 acres ploughed weekly , the average per tractor being just over 20 acres . It is claimed that the work done by one of the tractors in this unit is probably unbeaten for consistency by any Government tractor in the country . Commencing on October 19th it ploughed in successive weeks up to November 30th 15 acres MR . R. H. GEORGE will Sell by Auction , 167 acres , at The Balance Inn , Luston , on THURSDAY , JANUARY 31st , 1918 . at 3.30 p.m. punctually , in 2 lots : acres . ALLOTMENTS IN 1918 . Last year the allotment - holders of the country did a tremendous service to the cause of food production . It has been estimated that over a million tons of vegetables were produced on the allotments of England and Wales and con- sumed within easy reach of the land on which they were produced by the growers and their families . As a consequence not only were the transit faculties of the country notably relieved of the carriage of produce which other- wise would , in many cases , have had to be drawn over considerable distances , but thous- ands of working - class families were supplied more generously than ever before with fresh vegetables and were benefited accordingly . No bare figures can effectively represent the service to the national food supply and well - being thus rendered by the allotment - holders in 1917 . About 200,000 of their allotments , it may be pointed out , were entirely new creations under the Cultivation of Lands Orders administered by the Food Production Department of the Board of Agriculture , and probably at least It as many more have been established by volun- tary agreement during the last two years . is estimated that the al number of allot- far short of 1,000,000 . ments in England and Wales at present is not The Food Production Department is desirous of increasing this number by at least 50 per cent . between now and the end of March ; this would bring the total to something like 1,500,000 allotment - holders in the country . The Rural League , the Vacant Lands Cultivation Society , the Federation of Allotment Holders , the Ag ; ricultural Organisation Society , the Royal Horticultural Society , and other organisations , are actively co - operating in the effort to secure this increase of allotments during the spring . By common cousent food supplies will be very short , throughout the world this year , and it is quite possible that the efforts of our allotment holders may make all the difference between a reasonably plentiful supply of fresh fail to obtain land promptly they should ap- ply to the Food Production Department , which will at once enquire into local needs and re- sources . THEIR LIVES FOR BUTTER . February 1st . AN N Order restricting the height of Boots to seven inches in the case of leather tops and eight inches for cloth tops , comes into force on February Ist next . After this date , the sale of High - leg Boots is prohibited . ANTICIPATE YOUR REQUIREMENTS NOW ! February 2nd will be too late . Ross & Son , Ltd. , HIGH STREET KINGTON . THE MILK SUPPLY . WILL THE PLOUGHING POLICY REDUCE PRODUCTION ? IMPORTANT STATEMENT BY MR . PROTHERO . cattle . PRICE ONE PENNY . DESTRUCTION OF PESTS . farmers both to grow corn and keep up their If they plough some of their land for corn , and the rest for vetches or other sug- Although there is room for much more gen- gested crops , they will have a winter food on eral and effective organisation in the cam- which cows will give milk and cattle increasepaign against farm pests , owners and farmers in weight . " THE AGRICULTURAL vegetable food and an extreme scarcity of the same . It therefore behoves every allotment holder to redouble his eflorts in economical food production and every non - allotment holder ( 4 days only ) , 28 , 231 , 23 , 35 , 35 , and 22 - tnis in a position to become one to take up at work including 3 days ploughing 12 inches least a few square yards of ground and do his deep , and the remainder not less than 6 inches . best in the general movement . The total for this tractor was 181 acres , or an Tradesmen's Associations , Friendly Societies , average of about 26 acres per week , with a Trade Unions , Work ng Men's Clubs , and fuel consumption of just over 4 gallons of sporting organisations of various kinds , can paraffin per acre . There were 10 moves , and give material assistance by organising their the distance travelled by road was 64 miles ; members for this purpose . Individuals un- for every move the spuds had to be taken off able to obtain land should apply to the local and replaced , an operation occuppying about authority , and , if possible , get other persons two hours on each occasion . Another tractor similarly situated to do the same . If they in the same unit ploughed 45 acres in one of late hav eundoubtedly combined much more week 7 inches deep , and during the 7 weeks widely and effectively to this end . Interest an average per week of nearly 24 Certain critics of the Policy of the Plough of late have undoubtedly combined much more have suggested that if we increase the area of POSITION . ing the past two or three weeks judged by In view of occasional charges of extrava- arable land we shall necessarily decrease the the number of enquiries received , at the Food gance levelled at the Department's tractor production of milk in this country . A Although actual figures are not yet avail- Production Department . In view of these en- scheme , it is interesting to note that the number of farmers seem to share the delusion able it would appear from a general survey quiries it may be well to outline briefly what A desirable Freehold Brick - built COTTAGE , total expenses in connection with these 7 trac- The Director of Food Economy calls the and have raised the point at various meetings of the position that about one - fifth to a quar dealing with ground game , hares , & c . tenants and owners may do in the direction of in different parts of the country . excellent Garden and suitable Out - tors for 7 weeks , including the salaries of all Recently ter of the 2,000,000 acres of permanent grass- the President of the Board of Agriculture , land which it is hoped to put under the plough kill any ground game on that land , including with The tenant of land ordinarly is entitled to buildings , in the village of Luston , adjoining officials , rentals , wages , travelling expenses , attention of the public to the following Mr. R. E. Prothero , visited Aylesbury to ad- this season has already been broken up . Thus the main road from Leominster to Ludlow , in repairs , depreciation , & c . , worked out at £ 804 The other day three British destroyers were The number of acres ploughed was lost while conveying butter ships from Hol- Let this harsh fact be a constant re - dress the Buckinghamshire agriculturists and stated it might appear that relatively slow hares . He is also entitled to kill such birds the occupation of Mrs. Timmius ; also a 985 and the charge to the - farmers averaged £ 1 land . Freehold Pasture Orchard , near Luston Bury , per acre . It is clear therefore , that where minder to us that out of this visit has arisen an interesting progress is being made , but it must be remem- as pigeons , rooks , & c . It may be , however , season for ploughing most that his crops are being damaged by game , in the occupation of Mr. W. H. Lane and con - working conditions are good the Government ( 1 ) While we are grumbling because we can exchange of letters between Mr. Prothero and bered that the Mr. H. N. Lear , of Brill House , Brill . kinds of grassland has only just begun , and such as pheasants , which he is not entitled to tractors are a thoroughly sound business pro- not get butter and margarine or because we Mr. Lear wrote the President of the Board that within the past few weeks a good deal of kill , or by rabbits and rooks coming from position , alike from the point of view of the have to wait in queues to obtain it , the men of It should land not in his occupation . In this case he Department responsible for them and the far- the Royal Navy are dying without a grumble of Agriculture expressing the anxiety of the time has been lost through frost . in order to bring it to us . Buckinghamshire farmers " to know how far , further be realised that the Department's must obtain the permission of the Agricultural ( 2 ) Therefore , the imported butter and mar- if at all , more importance is placed upon the programme of 3,000,000 additional acres under Executive Committee to kill the pheasants or garine and all other imported foodstuffs that production of corn than upon that of milk and corn does not relate to permanent grass only mittee have the power to authorise him to we scramble for is very often bought with the meat ? " bought with blood of our own menfo ( 3 ) The less food we - every class of the pub- lic try to get , whether in queues or hotels and restaurants , the less do we risk the lives of This should be an unshirkable inducement Remember these men gave their lives for our butter . N.B. - With regard to ( 3 ) , people of means who feed comfortably in hotels and restaurants do not have to wait in butter queues . Let taining about one acre . Vacant possession of both lots can be given on the 25th March , 1918 . Further particulars may be obtained from the AUCTIONEER , Croftmead , Kingsland , Here- fordshire ; or from HAROLD EASTON , Esq . , Solicitor , Leominster . By Mr. JOHN NORTON . Preliminary Announcement . LEINTWARDINE VICARAGE . The highly important and attractive Sale of Genuine Antique and Modern Furnishings , Pictures , Books , Glass , China and Out - door Effects by direction of the Representatives of the late Rev. W. J. Colvin , will take place on Wednesday and Thursday , February 6th and 7th , 1918 . Catalogues in course of preparation . JOHN NORTON , Auctioneer . Imperial Chambers , Ludlow and Tenbury . By Messrs . E. HAMMOND & SON . 14s . 9d . RECLAIMING DERELICT LAND . others . to Food Economy . for it . MORE ALLOTMENTS . A great deal more land in different parts of the country is in process of reclamation at present than most people suppose ; and it would be a great mistake to imagine that this question has been lost sight of by the experts of the Food Production Department . By means of economical drainage schemes carried out with German prisoner labour extensive areas of land have been improved at a very low cost - 2s . or 3s . only per acre in fact . Sev- them remember that even if they keep their eral instances of a more specific form of re- ration scrupulously their means save them clamation might be cited . A notable one is from this , and that the more they spare their the taking over by the Middlesex Committee butter ration , the more butter there will be of 230 acres of derelict land belonging to the for the shops where the poor wait in the cold Water Board at Laleham Reservoir , near Ash- ford . Of this acreage 130 acres are " in hand , " and the present position of these is as follows 42 acres are sown with wheat , 25 acres are ploughed ready for sowing , and the remainder will be ploughed and sown with spring corp . The exact number of new allotments created 153 acres are let , and of this acreage 103 acres under the Cultivation of Lands Order reported to the Food Production Department up to last are already sown with whoat . and 50 acres are ploughed and ready to sow . The land is good , week - end was 191,485 . As an example of the deep loam and should yield heavy crops , but enormous expansion of the allotment move- policy it was simply going to waste and pro- Luton ( Beds . ) is interesting . ducing no sort of food for the nation . there were in this town of 50,000 inhabitants about 1,000 allotment holders . To - day there are 2,500 . The 1,000 pre - war allotment ment had 126 acres of permanent allotments . Since COMPULSORY FARMING . the outbreak of war 553 plots , covering 37 In certain quarters complaints have been acres , have been provided for temporary cul- acres , made that the Food Production Department is tivation , and 952 plots , containing 93 The County Bor- for permanent allotments . not bringing sufficient pressure to bear upon ough of Sunderland is acquiring 40 farmers who persistently oppose the national At Southwick- food policy as it is interpreted , by the local laying out as 560 allotments . on - Wear 7 acres are being divided into 100 Executive Committees . These complaints are plots . Twenty - five acres at Coventry have based on a misconception of the modus oper- just been cut up to make 350 allotments . andi of the Department . Wherever possible every ebffrt is made to arrive at amicable ar- Other plots recently laid out on the advice of In 6 Hereford CATTLE , Black Cart MARE , E. Hammond & Son until the inauguration of the new agricultural ment recently the position in the Borough of better than I do . Store Pig , Implements , Household Furniture , Etc. Sale at TWO o'clock . Auctioneers ' Offices , Leominster , Hereford I nd Tenbury . то HEREFORDSHIRE . I NO be Let from Candlemas next , " MORTI- MER'S HOUSE , mile from the Railway Station ( G. W ) , and the charming village of Kingsland ( close to Watling Street and Battle Oak ) , adjoining the main road , 13 miles from Lucton School . Auctioneers , Valuers , House , Estate , and Insurance Agents , Conduct all classes of SALES BY AUCTION VALUATIONS FOR PROBATE , Etc. , RENTS and BOOK DEBTS COLLECTED . Personal Attention , Prompt Settlements . ESTABLISHED 1881 . Offces : Highbury House , Leominster . SUGGESTIONS FROM CANADA . Before war acres for each ; rodis lows Hammersmith 140 of 10 There is good Fishing and Shooting in the STORAGE OF POTATOES AND FRUIT . rangements between the Department , the Com- the Food Production Department are as fol- mittee , and the farmer before any resort is Maidenhead 120 plots totalling 8 acres ; Wigton The House is immediate neighbourhood . made to the compulsory powers possessed by 5 acres ; Carlisle 6 acres ( 90 allotments ) ; and modern and substantially built of brick and the Department and the Committee . It is tile and contains on the ground floor 3 pleasant Sitting - rooms , Kitchen ( h . & c . ) , Larder and The following hints are taken from the only fair to the farming community to state Kingston - on - Thames 12 acres ( 168 plots ) . Wash - house . On the first floor 5 roomy Bed- official circular for November , of the Dominion that in very few cases has there been any- rooms , and excellent Bath - room with Drying Experimental Farms , an interesting paper full thing like selfish defince of these bodies by Cupboard . Electric Bells , never - failing Water of practical suggestions which is circulated farmers , where opposition has been experi- supply , and other modern conveniences . free of cost among the cultivators of the soilenced it has been due , as a rule , to differences of opinion as to what is most advisable in The Outbuildings include Two - Stall Stable , in Canada . the national interest . Coach House , Saddle Room and Coal Shed . There is a good Garden with South aspect ; also if desired about 4 acres of good Pasture Land or a small well - planted Orchard , both ! adjoining the house . The first point is this . tion of the Food دو as game . Hereford , MARKETS . CATTLE . and for the first time , and toned down this section the rabbits , or other marauders . The Com- South Buckinghamshire , he no less than 1,000,000 acres of land already shoot pleasants ; they have the same power to pointed out , milk was the most important arable are included . On this 1,000,000 acres consideration of the farmer , who sends this of arable it is proposed to grow food crops of authorise him to enter upon any plantation or form of produce in large quantities to London higher value than formerly , or food crops in - rookery for the purpose of killing rabbits or or Aylesbury . " Assuming that these farmers stead of luxury crops , and a substantial prop - rooks , and the Committees use these powers have their farm fully stocked with dairy cows ortion of it has already been dealt with . The if the birds are not sufficiently reduced by the and store cattle , " said Mr. Lear ; " they would general body of farmers are working hard and owner or shooting tenant . It will be seen , like to know if they are to break up pasture doing their best to make the the corn area as therefore , that the farmer who allows his with a view to growing more corn ? In their large as possible . From practically all quarters crops to be damaged by any of these forms of a rule should blame himself opinion such a course would tend to a reduc- the report is the same in relation to this part The Food tion in the supply of milk and that at a time of the Government scheme ; never before with rather than " the Government . " when they are being uregd to maintain if in living memory has so much wheat been Production Department is always willing to not to increase the quantity . " sown in an English autumn on English land enquire into any grievance of any farmer or Generally under this head . under such generally satisfactory conditions . other person MR . PROTHERO'S STATEMENT . Very seldom indeed have the crops on the speaking , however , an appeal to the local Com- The Committees , In his reply , Mr. Prothero says : - ploughed land of the country looked better as mittee will obtain redress . as a whole , are sympathetic to the progressive " The nation needs corn . That is true . a whole than they do at the present moment . But the nation also needs both meat and In a few districts the land is exceedingly dry farmer rather than to the landlord from whose In Bedfordshire the milk . and very fine , and in such places some fear has land pests may come . How can we grow more corn without been expressed of injury from sharp frosts other day , for example , a farmer having com- going short in the two other wants ? That ' is your question , and my answer is this . You where there has been little or no snow . But plained of the damage caused by rabbits that came from a neighbouring estate the Commit this applies only to the later - sown wheat ; and can only hope to meet all three needs by broadly speaking , winter oats and earlier sown tee appointed a warrener to enter certain adding to the land under the plough . In wheat have never looked better , whilst the area fields and plantations and kill the rabbits , the short time we have , there is no other way under both is much larger in most districts the warrener having all the killed rabbits as in which you can keep up the supply of meat than last year . remuneration . Expert observers regard . the Some of the members of the and milk and increase that of corn . Remember three points . official programme for the season as about one- Committee thought half the rabbits should be You know them third accomplished to date . Presuming that given to the owner of the land where they were killed , but the majority of the Committee the spring ploughing season is good , and no . It is out of a total unforseen circumstances interfere with the ar- voted against any such consideration to the of 18 million acres of grass that you are asked rangements for the supply of labour , machinery owner . In another case half the rabbits were to plough up two millions . You still have seed , and fertilisers , the approximate comple- given to the owner of the land and half to the 16 million acres of grass left . You lose one- Production Department's man killing them . ninth of the whole ; you keep eight - ninths . Programme may be looked upon as probable . It should be noted , by the way , that there The loss is not so great that you could not , Any is now no close time for pheasants . As an example additional to those given but for the war , meet it by better management last week of the progress being made , the re- owner or shooting tenant , as the case may be , of the grass that you keep . To - day your port of the Commissioner for Somerset may can under the present regulations kill pheas- grass is often scraped and rarely fed . In be cited . ants at any time and any person may sell or The returns which are coming in purchase them . ordinary times slag and drainage might help for that county of old ley lands which have to replace the loss of area . But fertilisers are been broken or are being broken up , he says , scarce , and you probably cannot spare the are vetry satisfactory ; and there is a feeling labour , or get the pipes for drainage . land alone can give the increased yield of of the Executive Committee that the task set Arable of confidence among representative members animal food which is hard to get by improving to the County in regard to food crops , i.e. the grass . It is only the plough which can 160,000 acres of corn , will be reached , though make good the loss . it is unlikely that we shall get 75,000 acres of Wednesday . - The grading This brings me to the second point . More permanent pasture under the plough for the selling of sheep at fixed prices was in vogue milk and meat can be produced on arable 1918 harvest . land than can be produced on grass , and thè Again , at the last meeting of the Executive of the market . Supplies were low in each de- more arable land you have under the plough , Committee of the North Riding of Yorkshire , partment , though more beef was marketed the more cattle you need to tread the straw the Chairman of the Surrey Sub - Committee than for the past three weeks . The supply , ORGANISED FRUIT AND and make manure . The anxiety and risk are mentioned that a great deal of grassland was however , was wholly inadequate , and after greater ; but we are not talking about these . being ploughed up , and added that in his own the Hereford butchers had had their 50 per VEGETABLE GROWING . Arable land can make good the loss of grass . particular area ( the Richmond district ) more cent . , dealers from a distance found them- There is another loss that arable land must than two - thirds of the 2,500 acres scheduled selves more or less without stock . Of the " Potatoes keep best in a cellar which is has been necessary there has been no burking The Food Production Department directs make good , if we are to have any winter milk for ploughing had already been ploughed . sheep , half the supplies were allotted to local moderately dry to dry , well ventilated , and of responsibility , either by the Department or attention to the great encouragement which In places where a re - survey of the grass- butchers , with the exception two who had where the temperature can be kept between the Committee , and whilst the latter in rela- has been afforded to small producers of fruit So I reach the third point . It is this . land has been necessary so as to secure the full enough in stock . One Birmingham butcher In order that the 32deg . and 40deg . Fahr . surface of the potatoes can be kept dry and in compelled to ovoke the of land have been and vegetables in Worcestershire by the formy . When we speak of milk and meat being pro- quota this work is being pressed forward vigor came with an official permit to buy 50 sheep , Most of the Executives have asked but did not obtain one . The animals offered the best condition to avoid rotting , provision compelled to invoke their powers , the mere tion of a County Fruit and Vegetable Society , duced off grass , we do not really mean what ously . use of these powers has whose function it is to collect and market the possibility of the Looking at the whole life the District Committees to report whether the numbered less than 160. Pigs were the small- should be made for air to pass underneath and proved effective in dealing with other agricul- fruit and vegetables grown in the county , of milch cows or of cattle for slaughter , they areas , ordered under the first survey have yet est number for 37 years . Only 17 were penned , through them .. If they are stored in consider- turists . A case in point is reported from thereby assisting such cultivators in disposing owe to grass only about one half of the growth been ploughed and what progress generally has and these were sold at Government rates . able or large quantities , such provision is made Yorkshire , where a farmer , on being served of their produce . Pioneer work in this direc- of their meat weight or milk yield . The other been made . The first Wiltshire return was by keeping the potatoes about six inches off with a Cultivation Order to plough out grass- tion was done by the local society at Upton- half they owe to the produce of arable land received from the Swindon district and showed che floor by first putting down a slatted tem- land , threatened if the Committee persisted to on - Severn , where the turnover for the first and to cake and other imported food . During in round figures 900 acres ploughed out of 1,300 porary floor with boards just loose enough so sell off his milch cows . It was promptly ex- year was £ 1,370 . This local society has been the coming year , and probably for some time ordered , 500 of the 900 acres being sown to the potatoes will not fall through and a similar plained to him that no such course of proce- taken over as a branch of the County Society , ahead you will hardly be able to get more wheat . slatted temporary wall a few inches from the dure would be allowed , that unless he pro- | and the subsequent turnover was from August concentrated foods - cake , corn , millers ' offals , FRUIT AND VEGETABLES . permanent wall would permit a still freer ceeded at once to plough the land in question to December : Purchases ( including expenses ) and brewers ' grains - than will afford a smaller Ludlow , Monday . - Potatoes , Branches have been ration than usual to working horses and cows per lb .; circulation of air . Keeping them in crate - like his farm would be taken over by the Commit- £ 2,015 , sales £ 2,283 . cabbages , 2s . to 3s . per dozen ; cauliflower , boxes with openings between the boards on tee and cultivated . Information has now been formed of the County Society at Bromsgrove , in milk , and possibly to lambing ewes and 49. to 6s . per dozen ; Brussel sprouts , 3d . per tops and sides is a good method . If potatoes received by the Department that the owner Martley , Kempsey , and Belbroughton , and weaned calves . The food will be short in to 2d . each ; leeks , per already stored are at all wet it will pay to has come into line and has actually commenced hiene and elsewhere the Society has quantity and poor in quality . There will be Last summer.the Food Production Depart - lb .; beetroot , 1d take the precaution of getting air through to plough . operated with the Food Production Depart- nothing left for fattening sheep , cattle or pigs . ment commended to the attention of agricul- bundle ; apples , 3d . to 4d . per lb .; pears , 3d . to them in some way lest they should rot . ment and the Ministry of Food in several res- turists with badly drained land who were not 6d . per 1b .; walnuts , 6d . per lb .; chestnuts , 7d . pects , notably in the establishment of a pulp- If you stick only to your grass , how will you in a position to pipe drain the same the ques- per lb .; grapes , 1e , 6d . to 2s . 6d . per lb .; car- You ing station at Bewdley and of a drying depot supply winter milk and winter meat ? tion of , whether they could not mole drain it . rots , parsnips , turnips , 2d . per lb .; onions , can only give us summer milk and summer- 4d . to 5d . per lb. at Kidderminster . At Bewdley the Society fattened cattle . Hay will maintain life but A great many owners and occupiers took the Hereford , Wednesday . - Recent provided a buyer and organised the collection advice of the Department with great advantage Something else is required to themselves , and there is no doubt that on fully maintained for best quality baskets up Messrs . KNIGHT , FRANK & RUTLEY . clined to be moist is better than one very dry , The movement initiated by Lord Deerhurst of fruit ; at Kidderminster the Society have nothing more . the whole the method has proved a distinct to 40s . per cwt . Cox's Orange Pippins making as in the latter the fruit is liable to wither on behalf of the Worcestershire War Agricul- purchased premises which are let to the De- to produce milk or make weight . Recently a demonstration of mole from 5d . to 8d . per lb. and lose its crispness . If one has not a suit- tural Executive Committee to run a series of paatment and they will also provide a buyer straw and roots , it is only the older beasts that And where , now , are those older draining was given at Oak Tree Farm , Bur- able cellar , the coolest place in the house organised pigeon shoots on given days over and organise the collection of produce to be will fatten . beasts ? " There says is no doubt , " is meeting with where it does not freeze should be chosen . If wide areas a considerable dried . This is the trouble you have neston , Bedale , Yorks , by the occupier of the to face . farm with his own plant before members of Ludlow , Monday - Fowls , cach apple is wrapped in paper and the fruit amount of success . In the first place Worces- Worcestershire Commissioner of the Depart Ploughing up grass is a sacrifice to landlords the local War Agricultural Executive Com couple ; chickens , 10s . to 13s . per couple ; kept in closed boxes or barrels they will keep tershire , Herefordshire , and Gloucestershire ment , " that the formation of the Society has It is not pleasant to mittee and a number of farmers of the neigh- dressed chickens , 13s . to 14s . per couple ; much better and crisper than if they were left decided to adopt the idea , their first shoot resulted in greatly increased production and and a risk to tenauts . It is , most of all , unpleasant to those bourhood . the saving of large quantities of fruit and either . The site selected was a large and ducks , 12s . to 14s . per couple ; dressed ducks , exposed to the air . Dirty receptacles should taking place on Thursday , December 20 , and not be used in which to store the apples as other shoots on every subsequent Thursday vegetables which would otherwise have been farmers who have , in the past , trusted entirely very wet field of old grass in ridge and fur- 14s . to 16s . per couple ; rabbits , 3s . to 3s . 3d . A similar County Society has been to grazing . But they have not , perhaps , fully row . The plant consisted of two 6 h.p. ( Fow- per couple ; geese , 16s . to 17s . each ; turkeys , Derbyshire followed wasted . " these often impart an unpleasant flavour to the until the end of March . realised the consequences of the great short- ler ) steam to be formed in Warwickshire and promises suit with Saturday for its combined shoot . A engines with cable and winding 18s . to 19s . each ; butter , 2s . 2d . to 2s . 5d . fruit . The Earl of Warwick age of concentrated foods ... Those conse- gear as for ordinary steam plough , the mole per lb .; hen eggs , 3 to 4 for 1s .; duck eggs , 3 number of other counties have since announced extremely successful . was quences seem to force grass farmers to plough draining plough being attached Travelling to 4 for 1s .; pigeons , 1s . 3d . to 1s . 4d . per their intention of coming into the scheme , or presided at a recent conference , which have already come in . Warwickshire , Cam- well attended and the movement is being vig up part of their land , and to drive them to without a hitch at the rate of about 3 miles couple ; hares , 5s . 6d . to 6s . each ; pheasants , throughout Warwickshire . devote the necessary portion of corn , and the bridgeshire , Shropshire , and Staffordshire have orously taken up an hour , the plough did most satisfactory 9s . to 10s . per brace ; partridges , 4s . to 4s . Cheshire The movement seems to be on quite the right rest of fodder crops . Vetch lay , for instance , work , and when shortly afterwards several of 6d . per brace . Hereford , Wednesday . - Live quotations : has arranged for shoots on each Wednesday lines and has the cordial sympathy of the and vetch silage , if cut at an early stage in the the channels were opened out they proved to formation of pod , provide winter food on be from 1 foot 9 inches to 1 foot 10 inches be- Pullets , 7s .; hens , 5s . 6d . to 6s . 6d . each ; tur- and Thursday of the last two weeks of the Government . which cows will yield milk , and cattle , even low the surface and to have water running in keys , 1s . 6d . per lb .; eggs , wholesale 3 for 1s . present month , and the East Riding of York- young stock can be brought forward to a " The demonstration , ' them freely . says the No rabbits , either live or dead . reasonable state of fatness . On such a diet Yorkshier Commissioner of the Food Produc they will not be prime meat , but they will tion Department , was well attended and was make meat which is fair and eatable . a great success . " It is to be hoped that Why are cowardly soldiers like butter ? - The war has brought on us very difficult other farmers with the necessary plant and Because when exposed to fire they run . The leaflet which I send you suggests experience of this work will arrange similar What can you fill a barrell with to make it a course of cropping , which may help grass demonstrations in other parts of the country . lighter ? -Holes . For particulars apply to EDWARDS , RUS- SELL & BALDWIN , Leominster . By Messrs . JACKSON & MCCARTNEY . KINGTON HORSE SALES . NEXT SALE TUESDAY , 19th FEBRUARY , 1918 . Early Entries kindly solicited . Prize Schedules upon application . JACKSON & MCCARTNEY , Auctioneers , Craven Arms , Hereford and Kington . years , and SALE TUESDAY NEXT , S. W. R. JANUARY 22nd , 1918 , at 2.30 p.m. , sing an ap- By direction of the Trustee of the Honourable orward the applications Committee . Tooth- s , take Never the first stage 5d . INSTER . oprietor , by 27 , Drapers at the Royal Oak Hotel , Leominster . Mrs. Spencer Lyttleton . " For the best results apples should be kept in as low a temperature as possible without their freezing . Between 32deg . and 38deg . Fahr . is a good range . A cellar which is in- NEWSPAPERS FOR TROOPS OVERSEAS . Where drastic action ORGANISED PIGEON SHOOTS . SHROPSHIRE AND HEREFORD . AGRICULTURAL PROPERTIES extending to upwards of 562 ACRES , com prising a compact Agricultural Holding known all selected Thursday as their day . As certain members of the public make a as COLD WESTON COURT , Shropshire , 385 Acres , situated 7 miles from the market town practice of posting newspapers for the troops of Ludlow , and a compact mixed Holding overseas either without stamps or not fully called TUTHILL FARM , Hereford , 163 Acres , stamped , the Postmaster - General finds it neces- 4 miles from the market town of Kington ; sary to announce that newspapers on which also PASTURE LAND , 12 acres . Solicitors : Messrs . NICHOLSON , PATTERSON and FREELAND , 46 , Queen Anne's - gate , S.W.1 . , and Messrs . H. TYRRELL & SON , Bank Chambers , 329 , High Holborn , W.C.1 . Land Agents : C. JOYCE , Esq . , Castle Mead , shire will have shoots every Wednesday even- no postage has been paid are not forwarded , ing during February , the North and West and where the postage is insufficient a sur- charge is collected from the addressee . rate of postage on newspapers for the Expedi- tionary Forces is d . per 2oz . , the inland rate of d . irrespective of weight does not apply . SILVER IN A STREET GUTTER . CO- the Ridings probably co - operating . It is most de- Over £ 60 in silver was found lying in a The sirable , in the view of the authorities that every county should organise these shoots and heap in Gamble Street , Liverpool , on Satur- that so far as possible large groups of couu- day by a boy named Harry Lee . ties should shoot on the same days . were current except a few fourpenny pieces .. The coins or winter meat . we appear to say . times . Even on success . ! SUCCESSFUL MOLE DRAINING . CORN . Ludlow , Monday . - Market slow , little grain offering at Government prices . 1d . rates were POULTRY AND PROVISIONS . 7s . to 8s . per |