The Kington Times - January 1918
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Kington Times 26th January 1918 - Page 1
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| Date | 26/01/1918 |
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| Type | Newspaper |
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| Language | English |
| Area | Kington Times |
| Collection Holder | Herefordshire Libraries |
| Date of Publication | 26th January 1918 |
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S ere entitled to prepared to ad not got to 4 . be all - round in that late ostilities were rators of Ber- s a statement ed themselves es and posed war lustful , hemselves the with war de- the product had been the t he denied e sorry to be ke of secret stinct to give ard fight and And this was new that be- hed the whole xt of all the the British S at Berlin , fateful days He found ernment seek- the British f war - lustful- only to keep ers from en- France and They ap- e Kaiser to The mad thing e that Der as a British re in the res- ntal struggle there were m which ware nment of the war when to ught a curse to come ( ap- mber that if n 1914 it was no slacken- in 1918 , but concern be- went to war were in pro- ld be finally fficient . In e weight of hat thousands . f chill death usands were on of broken , not humili- had provoked memory of the face of S FOR he Germans . pened in the n way , in all agreement f the Hun . hold Atilla , tood for and dering Huns arn that the ts and that 11 the world challenge by uestion was , When the ow can they and beflag asked to be would des- could they Cavell and yatt . or sink ewa ? How to Belgium ? as to remem- escendants of he then under- ravished . e mutilated " nothing to res to weep th the en- Holy City , erlin had to aterial dam- ked them to ble because ered on the sserting that during the inct act of anco - Prussian he war with people said d whilst our is the best riting Ger- as many col have more from and the orted Os Tag . " That their states- ved in Ber- who stood as dear old st remember behind the social demo- Kaiser with ese two had hey thought sh the Brit- nge of 1914 . That this his address ation to do ving on the that liberty d permanent d not need resolution to not carried ld be under ot enjoy the previously aid that it imbue them ar and give ey might be among their d there was come out they would a permanent and studied the duplicity prevent us which was Permanent hrowing the on with the every man Kaiser or we uch pleasure Bibbings had and he en- Councillor gs concluded cold ? -Heat , a lady and ; the other Try time ? n a hungry to eat the roprietor , by 27 , Drapers THE NORTH HEREFORDSHIRE ADVERTISER AND THE KINGTON TIMES VOL . VII . NO . 592 . SALES BY AUCTION . By Messrs . EDWARDS , RUSSELL and BALDWIN . Registered at the General Post Office as a Newspaper SATURDAY , JANUARY 26 , 1918. 15. 8d . , payable in advance . JANUARY 26 , 1918.PRICE ONE PENNY . for transmission in the United Kingdom SALES BY AUCTION . Vacant possession of both lots can be given on the 25th March , 1918 . Further particulars may be obtained from the AUCTIONEER , Croftmead , Kingsland , Here- LEOMINSTER HORSE REPOSITORY . fordshire ; or from HAROLD EASTON , Esq . , Solicitor , Leominster . NEXT SALE OF VALUABLE HEAVY and LIGHT HORSES , at Leominster , By Mr. JOHN NORTON . LEINT RD VICARAGE , NEW ALLOTMENTS . HOME PRODUCE AND PRICES . The following letter appeared in the " Lon- don Times " on January 17th , 1918 - you On Friday , March 1st , 1918 , Hopton Heath Station ( L. & N.W.R. ) 23 miles , necessary to admit of the decay of turf and confirmed by Parliament as soon as possible , Consigned by Farmers and Private Owners . Entries Close Wednesday , Feb. 20th . Early entries solicited . Schedule and Entry Forms on application NOTE . - All farmers entering Horses must get a Permit to Sell from their respective Agricultural Executive Committee . Auctioneers ' Offices : Leominster , Hereford and Tenbury . LEOMINSTER STOCK MARKET . TUESDAY . JANUARY 29th . 1918 . AT AT Cattle and Sheep , 10.30 a.m .; Galves , 11.30 ; Store Cattle and . l'igs , 11.45 . Entries kindly solicited . EDWARDS , RUSSELL & BALDWIN . 1.cominster , Hereford and Tenbury . HOLLYBROOK FARM , EATON HENNOR , Two and a - half miles from Leominster . EDWARDS RUSSELL & BALDWIN have received instructions from Mrs. Anthony , who is leaving , to Sell by Auction , on 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 Purniture , & c . Ludlow 9 miles , Knighton 7 miles . MR . R. JOHN NORTON is instructed to Sell by Auction , ou WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY , FEBRUARY 6th and 7th , 1918 . RY 6th and Most of those who secured allotments last year are now reaping the reward of their labour , and their success will no doubt stimu- late less fortunate neighbours to start allot- Sir , Some months ago , at the time when ments for themselves . This is all to the good , the Corn Production Bill seemed to be meet- as by the sowing of suitable crops , such as ing with opposition from the representatives second early potatoes , which " come in " in in Parliament of the urban consumers , the early summer , useful food will be ensured were good enough to publish in your columns at a time when a supplement to the national a letter which as a member of a County War larder will be most helpful . As regards new Agricultural Committee I addressed to you . allotments , a timely hint comes from the Food I ventured to point out the difficulties which Production Department , who point out the de- the demands then being made upon food pro- By Order of the Representatives of the late sirability of getting on with the digging at ducers entailed , and the necessity , if addi- Rev. J. W. Colvin . every available opportunity . As they say . the tional home - grown food was to be produced , earlier new ground is dug the better . Time of the guarantees promised in the Bill being fibre , to permit of sufficient aeration , and the and that , if this were not done there was a formation of a fine seed bed , and to enable grave probability , of the urban consumer , the soil to become properly consolidated be- later on , clamouring in vain for home - grown before seed time . Late dug grass land is apt food , however high its price . to dry out in dry weather . The plants then The difficulties of the producers position suffer and frequently succumb . A word of have since been mutiplied tenfold killed warning is necessary Last year , italabour , on the farms , the beersmith and common practice among allotment holders to saddler's shops , on threshing machines , is the Valuable Antique and Modern Furnishings , pare and stack the turf before digging , pre- still far from adequate ; its cost is much Mahogany Telescope Dining Table , Dining sumably in the belief that removing the turf higher ; seeds and fertilisers are hard to get Chairs , Couches , Solid oft . Spanish Mahogany would also remove the wireworms . This , how- and only at a great price ; feeding stuffs are Sideboard , a fine old Chippendale Mahogany ever is by no means always the case , in almost impossible to obtain . On the top of 4ft . Bureau Bookcase with glazed doors and winter wireworms often work deep in the all this come the restrictions imposed by the ornamental cornice , Oil Paintings and Water ground , and paring the turf not only takes extraordinary number and character of the Colours , Prints and Engravings , Powerful away a main source of fertility from the soil , various Orders issued by Lord Rhondda and Telescope , about 600 vols . of Books including but also deprives the wireworms of a part of his advisers . Mainly as the result of these interesting old works on Sport , etc. , Collec- their food supply , thus encouraging them to Orders , cattle and pigs are no longer to be tions of Stamps , Coins and Fossils , Bric - a - Brac , attack the crops grown on the land with even found on the market in any quantity ; feeding Occasional Tables and Chairs , a quaint old 17th greater avidity . The Food Production De- stuffs are held up by the importers at the century Gate Table with carved frame , partment advise therefore that the turf should ports ; and such valuable food as meat , milk , Sheraton Folding Card Tables , Electro Plated be dug in so that the sod is inverted at the and butter cannot be produced by the farmer Goods , Glass , China , Timepieces , Bedroom bottom of the first spit of soil . Stacking and at a profit . I will take two flagrant instances Appointments , Solid Mahogany Wardrobes and burning the turf should only be done where it of what every agriculturist would describe as Chests of Drawers , Georgian Mahogany Toilet consists of a mass of couch or twitch . Tables , Kitchen Utensils , Out - door Effects , useful Bay Cob Mare , 14 hands , aged ; Car- riages , Harness , Part - Rick Old Hay , Poultry , Iron Hurdles , Garden Requisites , a well - built Greenhouse , Prime Cider and Casks , etc. , etc. Catalogues 6d . each from the AUCTIONEER Imperial Chambers , Ludlow ( Tel . 70 ) , and Tenbury .. View Day ( by Catalogue only ) , Tuesday , February 5th , from 10 till 4 . By Messrs . JACKSON & MCCARTNEY . KINGTON STOCK SALES . TESSRS . JACKSON & MCCARTNEY beg MES to announce that under instructions from the Sub Live Stock Commissioner , the above Sales will be held Fortnightly , taking Auctioneers ' Offices , Leominster , Hereford place on the 1st and 3rd Friday in each month . NEXT SALE , FRIDAY , FEBRUARY 1st , 1918 Fat Cattle and Sheep graded in accordance with regulations . Auction Offices : Craven Arms , Hereford and Kington . Sale at ONE o'clock prompt . and Tenbury . THE HEADLAND , DILWYN , One mile from Dilwyn and 3 miles from Pembridge . EDWARDS , & DWARDS , RUSSELL & BALDWIN have Holder to Sell by Auction , on THURSDAY , JANUARY 31st , 1918 , 6 Hereford CATTLE , Black . Cart MARE , Store Pig , Implements , Household Furniture , Etc. Sale at TWO o'clock . Auctioneers ' Offices , Leominster , Hereford ad Tenbury . ST . MARY'S , KINGSLAND ( A few minutes walk from G.W. Railway Station . ) , Four Miles from Leominster . Important Sale of Live and Dead Farming Stock . KINGTON HORSE SALE . TUESDAY , FEBRUARY 19th , 1918 . £ 50 IN PRIZES . Silver Cup and Cash value 20 for the best | Cart Gelding or Mare , £ 20 cash for the best pair , also Cash prizes for Lurry and Van Horses . are advi once . Vendors are advised to apply for permits at Entries close Saturday , February 9th . JACKSON & MCCARTNEY , Auctioneers . Craven Arms and Hereford . By Messrs . E. HAMMOND & SON . SEED POTATOES . Allotments ALLOTMENTS AND GARDENS . the folly of Lord Rhondda . By his first Meat Order he fixed the highest price in the month when it was most cheaply produced , and a descending scale of prices for the following months , during which the cost of production was becoming more and more expensive and meat more and more necessary for the popula- tion . He has , by his most recent Order in the same connexion , prohibited the slaughter of lambs until such a date as will keep them off the market when most productive of meat , and so throw upon the farmer the waste and cost of feeding them up again to their weight on being first weaned . theten foreshadowed . H. FITZ HERBERT WRIGHT , Yeldersley Hall , Derby , Januy , 16th . February 1st . AN 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 . HOW TO STOCK THE LARDER . INTERESTING LECTURE AT Committee . themselves . day . It was an anomaly to be told to economise in food . She applied her remarks to apples , potatoes , onions , peas and beans . dough . " THE AGRICULTURAL POSITION . A In a few counties the organisation of the supply of seed potatoes does not seem to have been taken in hand as energetically as it might have been . From a few districts com- plaint has reached the Food Production De- partment that the public are in doubt as to the means adopted by the authorities for the distribution of the seed . In all such cases it is desirable that would be growers of potatoes should take action to clear up the question The suggestion I make is that Lord Rhondda at an early date . If enquiries made of the should be relieved of any opportunity of re- Secretary to the County War Agricultural peating these follies ; further , that the care Next followed an interesting demonstration Committee or other local official are not im- an encouragement of home production and the of the making of " potato butter . " Four mediately successful in obtaining a reply , the fixing of prices of home - grown produce , should ENCOURAGING PROGRESS . ounces of cooked and finely mashed potato is Department , 72 , Victoria be left to the Board of Agriculture , that dis- LEOMINSTER . Food Production mixed with one ounce of melted butter and the The weather of late over the greater part . Street , S.W.1 . , should be communicated with tribution and control of profiteering amongst There was an interested audience of ladies resulting pat certainly had a very tempting of the country has been just about as bad as at the Church Institute on Thursday of last appearance . it could be for farm work . Yet most of the at once . In most of the counties the collec - wholesalers and retailers should alone be the tion of orders and the distribution of potatoes function of the Food Controller . The present Commissioners of the Food Production Depart- seems to be in process of quite effective or - system of dual control under which one depart - week when Miss Evill , of the Food Produc- POTATOES IN PLACE OF FLOUR . nient this week bear testimony to the excellent Many ganisation . Associations , ment endeavours to encourage production and tion Department , gave a lecture on " How to The use of potatoes in many other ways was spirit with which the farmers of England and Parish and other minor authorities are collect the other department , with its popular doc- Stock the Larder . " The meeting had been suggested . In bread making a proportion of Wales are tackling their difficult task . Some ing the orders as last year and forwarding trine of cheapne to the consumer , spends arranged by Miss Watkins , the local repre- them to the Agricultural Executive Committee , its time in thwarting the efforts of the first , sentative of the Women's War Agricultural 3lbs . of mashed potatoes to 8lbs . of flour yields very encouraging particulars are given by the palatable and appetising bread which keeps Department of the progress already made in which is buying seed in bulk and distributing has become so serious a menace to production Those who this direction . The frost last week was extra- it through approved seed potato dealers . In that it should be terminated as soon as pos- In stating that the title of her lecture had moist longer than ordinary bread . been chosen by the Food Production Depart- make a small quantity of bread were recom- ordinarily hard in many parts of the country . other counties the distribution will be made sible . from the Executive Committee or its Supplies If this is not done , and done quickly , the ment , Miss Evill said that when she talked mended to steam it for three - quarters of an Around Peterborough 24 degrees were regis- Sub - Committee direct to the Allotment Society , fashich I expressed in my former letter about stocking the larder she did not mean hour , followed by baking for about twenty tered . Obviously conditions like these made Potato pastry a great saving of ploughing impossible over very wide areas , Parish Council , or other minor authority . In Mastified , and at a much earlier date that they could watch their larder shelves fill minutes . Everything she told them would flour - was made with 4 ozs . flour , 8 potatoes , and the bad conditions were rendered worse only a few counties does there seem to be any Yours sincerely , entail a certain amount of trouble which after 2 ozs . fat , teaspoonful of baking powder and by successive falls of snow and rapid thaws difficulty arising . Potato scones were in many districts . The closing week of Decem- all was the cheapest thing they could use to- salt , milk and water . In that lecture she was not going to made with 8.ozs . hot mashed potatoes , 1 oz . ber and the opening weeks of the New Year talk about economy so much as production . fat , and enough barley flour to make a stiff have to some extent neutralised the advantage Potato Yorkshire pudding required to farmers of the exceptional dryness which However , it remains gen- things that did not exist . To - day it was 1 lb. potatoes , 1 egg , oz . fat and a little milk marked November . Another food - saving erally true that work on the farms is much necessary for everyone to help in producing to make a stiff batter . SULPHATE OF AMMONIA . Owing to the shipping problem food dish was haricot bean pie , the ingredients re- more advanced at the present time than is Reports from all quarters show that the might be rotting in other countries but could puired for six or eight people being 1lb . of usual at this season of the year . demand for allotments continues to grow , and The position as to wheat sowing this in many districts the local authorities find it NECESSITY FOR ECONOMY IN ITS USE . not be transported . She also asked them to beans boiled after soaking for 24 hours , placed difficult to obtain land sufficient for all appli- realise that when she was talking about things in pie - dish with onion and carrot , covered with season in Cornwall is reported as particularly Last year there were less than 19,000 The efforts made during the war to secure cants . The Food Production Department the full utilisation of the sulphate of am- that might be done it was not only for the mashed potato and baked till brown . Stuffed good . acres of wheat sown . The Executive asked therefore suggests that the local Councils mock duck . " should probably The scooped out marrow was for 50,000 acres for the 1918 harvest . Returns might consider whether there are uncultivated monia produced in this country have proved present , because if the war stopped now we vegetable marrow was also recommended as three years more of the stuffed with fried onions and boiled broad from farmers to November 30th show 42,818 so successful that there is danger that if care kitchen gardens belonging to vacant dwelling- is not exercised in restricting its use to crops same conditions . acres sown , 3,305 acres ready for sowing , and houses that could be utilised for growing veget- which really require it , the supply this spring THE ALLOTMENT HOLDERS ' 6,005 acres intended for wheat but still to be ables . These gardens cannot be taken by the may be unequal to the demand . In particu- POTATO STARCH AND FLOUR . This is a total of prepared for sowing . OPPORTUNITY . Councils under the Cutivation of Lands Order . lar it is desired to issue a word of warning as against 19,000 last 52,128 acres for 1918 , Miss Evill illustrated the making of potato year . To make up the country's full quota of but the Board of Agriculture have power to on newly broken grass land . They owed a great deal to the agriculturist starch and flour on a small scale , take possession of them under the Defence of Some farmers assume that the policy of the and the allotment holder . A quantity The safety of the of potatoes were grated in cold water and the corn crops some 22,000 more acres are neces- the Realm Regulations , and the Food Produc- Board of Agriculture is to recommend the use empire was practically in their hands if they shreds well washed . sary and there is little doubt that they will tion Department are prepared to consider sym- of sulphate of ammonia on all newly - broken would produce enough food to tide us over . poured off and the shreds again washed in cold planting a large acreage of potatoes . The cloudy water was be obtained . " Cornwall , by the way , is also pathetically any definite proposals made by a local authority for securing their cultivation grass lund ; this is not so . In the majority of They had done splendidly and they were water . This was repeated until the water was cases the application of the manure to corn urged to do even better in the coming year . clear , thus signifying that most of the starch tain its full quota . Derbyshire is now practically certain to at- First of all in regard to vegetables she had been removed . Several districts have arranged without risk of serious injury to the wasteful , if not actually injurious , and under wanted to talk about preventing waste . The white potato pulp completed the quota , and the most backward In was dried in the oven or on the plate rack and one of all , which had an allotted quota of property . the present circumstances if there is any doubt every garden a certain amount was lost when thoroughly dry could be turned into 2,200 acres , has now been brought up to about CALF REARING . at all as to its being required it should be through going bad . The remedy was to cut coarse potato flour by the mincing machine , 2,000 acres . Ploughing in the county is pro- On some soils , however , its use is out all the good parts in chips , slices or rings machine , coffee mill or crushed with a roller . gressing well and " where the Orders have desirable , for heavy clays and dry them in the oven at night after the The water that was strained off would gradu- been served there is ground for hope that ploughed late , poor hungry sands such as often fire had gone down , repeating this each night ally clear , leaving a thick white sediment at the work will be completed in good time for occur on granite and mill stone , grit forma until the fruit or vegetable was quite dry , when the bottom of the vessel . tions . In these cases the use of sulphate of they could be stored in tins or jars , or hung The water must then be carefully poured off able . " This was starch . spring planting provided the weather is suit- the weather , is ammonia may be rendered unnecessary if the up in bags . These dried vegetables would and the sediment dried when it would become . land can be ploughed in good time and a dress tide them over the time when they were scarce a fine white starch which could be used as a for ploughing 19,000 acres have been reported In Gloucestershire of 33,408 acres scheduled ing of lime be given . These measures , which and before the fresh vegetables came in . custard powder . To be used as as commenced , " and 9,174 acres as planted . facilitate the rotting of the turf , would to a Bottling was another splendid way of prevent- In conclusion Miss Evill said that that it Last week in Gloucestershire 206 acres were . great extent take the place of nitrogenous ing waste . These forms of preserving were was up to them to do all in their power to tractor ploughed . The local Commissioner not hoarding which did not apply to home add to the national food supply . If they says of this figure that " considering the Potatoes , mangels , cabbages , and corn crops Eight Miles from Leominster and Six Miles rotating ball touches the ground - which is to short period , provided suitable substitutes are on land which has been exhausted by previous grown and preserved produce . could grow anything they should do it , if they weather conditions prevailing , this is a most could keep poultry , raddits or goats it was satisfactory result , the men having evidently corn crops should receive sulphate of am- their duty to do so . If everybody took a hand taken every opportunity to work when it was its rotation is converted into a translation at available , and this has been widely confirmed monia , but as a rule swedes and turnips do in this work of food production England would possible . " not give sufficient return to justify its use right angles to its line of flight - that is , to- ! by practical experience . Many farmers nowa- wards the wicket from the " off " when the days are finding it necessary to modify their under present conditions , and under no circunr ploughing , gives 12,000 acres ( or approximately might feel extremely proud to think what a ler ) , and towards the wicket from the " on " ing economies , and for their guidance the which is not to be mown for hay . Board of Agriculture has recently issued a 50 per cent . ) ploughed out of 23,000 acres , A perfectly smooth projectile would not drift , revised edition of Leaflet No. 142 in which the sad to grass which is to be mown for hay , bill was reduced by vegetable scraps which large part they would take in winning the war . Miss Evil afterwards distributed interesting 7,000 acres of this area having been sown with grip of whole subject is reviewed . This leaflet deals application of sulphate of ammonia is in could be boiled and dried off with sharps . many cases advisable , but unless it is certain Some corn was necessary . Poultry did not leaflets giving numerous recipes for potatoes , wheat . In Wiltshire last week 329 acres were because its surface could get no tractor ploughed . There are ten women driv- the air ; but the ordinary projectile is rough ! in a practical way with the rearing of calves , that a good return may be expected the pay without the personal attention of the pickled herrings and soups . and grooved , and , since the grooving of the and suggests methods of feeding to meet the It should sheath is deeper when made by a new rifle altered conditions due to the war . than when made by an old worn one , it fol- be in the hands of every farmer who has lows that a projectile's drift is more marked calves to rear . and post free on application to the Secretary , when the former is used . Board of Agriculture , 3 , St. James's Square , S.W.1 . DWARDS , RUSSELL & BALDWIN have Edwards to Sell by Auction , on Ereceived instructions from , Mr. John FRIDAY , FEBRUARY 1st , 1918 , Head of Choice Two - years - old 100 HEREFORD BULLOCKS , E. Hammond & Son Auctioneers , Valuers , House , Estate , and Insurance Agents , Conduct all classes of SALES BY AUCTION VALUATIONS FOR PROBATE , Etc. , RENTS Attention , Prompt Settlements . as to its uso 70 Hardy Young Cross - bred EWES and BOOK DEBTS COLLECTED . Personal arranged of to taken after old grass or long - leys would dev 2 Useful CART GELDINGS , .. Collection of Modern Agricultural Imple- ments , about 1,500 gallons of Cider , 25 Hogs- head Casks , Gearing and other Effects , described in Catalogues to be had from the AUCTIONEERS , Leominster , Hereford and Ten- bury . Sale Luncheon ( by Ticket ) at 11.30 a.m. at 12 noon . THE BEARWOOD FARM , PEMBRIDGE , from Kington . DWARDS , RUSSELL & BALDWIN are ED favoured with instructions from the ESTABLISHED 1881 . Offces : Highbury House , Leominster . THE DRIFT OF A BULLET . The drift of a bullet , says " Engineering , " " Modern Bullets in War , " is in an article on brought about in a very similar manner to that in which a cricket ball is made to " break . " As the ball leaves the bowler's hand it is given a sudden turn , which causes it to rotate about an antero - posterior axis . Directly the the ball as the condensed air is to the bullet- 1 The rearing of calves is especially difficult at the present time owing to the need for economy in the use of milk and the scarcity and high price of alternative feeding stuffs . In certain cases , such as the rearing of valu able pedigree stock , a liberal use of milk is perhaps unavoidable , but in the case of or dinary commercial stock , if the milk can be disposed of for human consumption at all , it is neither profitable nor patriotic to give much of it to calves . Experiments have shown that the use of milk can be restricted to a very withheld . manures . instance , poor POULTRY , GOATS AND . RABBITS . Everyone who could keep some animal to produce food was doing something for the beans and boiled until tender . be rendered independent of other countries in nation . With regard to poultry a small The Wiltshire return , showing the proportion Representatives of the late Mr. Alfred Hope , rotation is clockwise ( as viewed by the bow - past methods of rearing with a view to effect- stances should it be applied to clover or grass number paid better than a quantity as the food regard to food . Farmers and allotment holders ploughed to date of the acreage ordered for to Sell by Auction , on THURSDAY , FEBRUARY 7th , 1918 , 87 Well - Bred HEREFORD CATTLE , including 48 outlying two - years - old Bullocks and Heifers . Capital Shropshire , Kerry Hill and 167 Cross - bred SHEEP , 5 SHEEP CRATCHES , & c . Catalogues may be had of the AUCTIONEERS , Leominster , Hereford and Tenbury . Luncheon at 12.30 o'clock . Sale at 1.30 p.m. prompt . By Mr. R. H. CEORCE . R. H. GEORGE , when the rotation is anti - clockwise . " SIDE . " . Copies may be obtained free TREATMENT OF FRUIT TREES . With re- manure should this year be reserved for arable land , and , in any case , it should not be applied either to temporary or to old meadow which contains a large proportion of clover . owner . FOOD . THE MARKETING OF SURPLUSES . With regard . to rabbits these required ers in the county now sufficiently trained to attention but could be fed for next to nothing , THE WOMEN ON THE LAND . take over new tractors as they arrive . They bran and green stuff being sufficient . increased rapidly and the young were ready for Women are taking a prominent part in form- the table at from 4 to five months old . Two ing County Fruit and Vegetable Collecting goats would supply a family of six persons Societies for the disposal of surplus fruit and with milk , cheese and butter for ten months vegetables . A conference convened by the Billiard FIXED FISH PRICES . players with the are familiar of the year . Warwickshire The cost might be as low as Women's Agricultural Commit- phenomenon of the conversion of rotation into There was tee has just decided to form a Society for How to prevent the waste of surplus produce translation , and the converse , and are aware NO CONSOLATION FOR THE HOUSEWIFE . £ 5 and the milk was worth £ 30 . from gardens and allotments is a problem a Herefordshire Goat Society from which all that county . that a ball with " side ' is reflected off a Lord Rhondda's maximum retail prices for information could be obtained , the secretary One of the latest occupations taken up by still unsolved in many districts , especially in cushion in such a manner that the angle of Some interesting experi Fruit trees in small gardens are often fish came into force on Wednesday . In no being Miss Buchanan , Clyde House , Hereford . women in connection with agriculture is far- country districts . incidence is no longer equal to the angle of re- allowed to fall into a neglected condition and case is there a reduction on ruling prices ; in riery and smithing . A farmer at Hereford ments are being tried , according to the Food flection - as it practically is when the ball im- in consequence much fruit is lost . considerable increase is A great several instances a PICKLED HERRINGS A VALUABLE Department . having sent in a request for a woman to do Production In Worcestershire pinges without " side " -but is greater or less deal may , however , be done to get the best allowed , despite the fact that the recent meat this work - shoeing horses and making and re- village depots have been established to which This is Women's Or- the villagers bring their produce . than that angle according to the nature of the out of these trees . In the first place , during shortage has had a sympathetic " effect on Referring to dried vegetables , etc. , Miss pairing farm implements - the imparted " side . " collected from all the depots and despatched the present month and February , all dead , fish . A ball , for instance , hit from the spot in lying , and diseased wood should be cut out and Evill emphasised the importance of thorough ganisation proposes to fill the place . Lord Rhondda stated a week ago that the the nearest town markets or munition All the women who have completed a course to This also applied baulk against the centre of the right - hand burnt . At Droitwich a Co - Operative Society The work can be done when other prices would have to be high or the fishermen soaking before cooking . It reduced of training in forestry have now been placed centires . to rice , pearl barley and beans . But cushion rebounds at an equal angle to the per- garden operations are impracticable and many could not run the war risks of the sea . the time required for cooking and increased as forewomen by the Woods and Forests De has been established , a charge of 10 per cent . pendicular as the angle of incidence when fungus and insect pests will be destroyed . this can hardly apply to fresh - water fish , among being made on all sales to cover the expenses partment . the food value .. The water in which rice and PROPERTY and TIMBER SPECIALIST , there is no " at a smaller angle when Next , when the trees are overgrown with moss which salmon is to go up to 4s . per lb. Even The women students at Harper Adams Col- of collection , selling , etc. In Somersetshire the MORTGAGE BROKER , VALUER and ARBI- there is left The ball with right and lichen , preparations should be made for frozen salmon , which comes from Canada and potatoes had been boiled should be saved as a TRATOR under the Agricultural Holdings " side " has had a portion of its rotation con- spraying either with a caustic , winter wash or could be bought on Saturday at 1s . 9d . , is foundation for vegetable stews , pies and lege ( Salop ) who have been training for motor Women's Agricultural Committee is consider- tractor work , have been most successful , and ing the formation of " Village Unions . " Pickled herrings were a valuable the engineer , who Act , 1908. REPORTS , RECORDS and SUR verted into a backward translation , that with with lime wash . Caustic soda required for officially raised to 2s .. was prejudiced against facilitate the work of collection and dispatch VEYS carefully and personally attended to . left " side " making the former wash is scarce , and except Bloaters , kippers , and herrings are to be food which in the past used to be exported . women labour in the first instance , is now these Unions will be grouped around the best The only thing about them was their saltness most enthusiastic over their work . The capital Two of available market centres . in the worst cases preference should be given sold by the pound . The following table compares Lord Rhondda's and they should be prepared for cooking by them have done so well that they have been quired to initiate the scheme is to be obtained But there is yet another force that aids into lime wash , which may be applied at any by means of half - crown shares , so that even As the time up to about a week before the blossoms maximum with Saturday's prices per lb. in a being soaked for two or three days in water , kept on as assistant Instructresses . producing " drift " of the projectile . They being changed several times a day . " Lime wash is a good cleansing wash West End store : - A girl of 17 was awarded 3 stripes for long the smallest producers may have a stake in rotating grooved surface traverses the con- cost about 2d . each and weighed half a pound . service at a Land Women's Rally at Carmar- the concern . There 8 are egg collecting densed air bathing it antero - inferiority it car- and , if not applied too early it checks effec- Max . Chilled fish from Canada was also coming on then . She ploughed unaided twenty - five acres depots and 10 allotment societies in the county , ries a part of this condensed air round to its tively such pests as the Plum Aphis , Apple Aphides and Sucker . s . d . the market , cod being 1s . per lb. as against of her father's farm . which are expected to take part in the Village 1 10 2s . for fresh cod . Fish could be eaten with a A demonstration and competitive meeting Union movement . Basket making is to be de- 20 clear conscience as it was not rationed . She principally for women representative of veloped locally in the near future . 1 10 hoped they would order pickled herrings from the six North Wales counties is to take place Auctioneer , Valuer , Land Agent , and Surveyor , 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 : - Groftmead , Kingsland , Herefordshire . Leominster Office- Corn Square . HEREFORDSHIRE . TOWNSHIP OF LUSTON . 24 miles from Leominster and 1 mile from Berrington and Eye Station . flank . side , " " side . " into a forward translation . " SPIN . " MOTHER OF FIVE PAIRS OF TWINS . When Rosina Flutter , manied woman , 45 years of age , and mother of twenty - five child- open . New curries . 8 their fishmonger and so create a demand for on Smithson's farm at Rhuddlan on February Satur- day . s . d . Haddock ( fresh ) 1 2 Haddock ( smoked ) , each 10 Cod 12 WINTER MOTH . Herrings ( fresh ) , doz . 2s . 6d . Plaice to 5 20 1 10 them . Many reports have been received by the Soles 3 36 2.8 3 3 1 3 1 3 Nil 40 5d . to 6 061 20 29 08 3s . to 5 10 4s . to 6 02 10 Food Production Department laying stress on Turbot ren , including five pairs of twins , summoned a single man , Thomas Rigby , munition worker , the abundance of Winter Moths which have Whiting MR . R. H. GEORGE will Sell by Auction , tentions . Both parties were bound over . at The Balance Inn , Luston , on THURSDAY , JANUARY 31st , 1918 . A desirable Freehold Brick - built COTTAGE , at 3.30 p.m. punctually , in 2 lots : 38. to 3 6 SUGAR BEET . 7th . The classes will include horse and tractor ploughing milking , hedging , trimming , prun- Everyone should grow some sugar beet . It ing , trenching , thatching , harnessing , and cart- ing . KILL THAT RAT . The Ministry of Food and Board of Ag- riculture are plotting a great campaign against To re- COST OF THE WAR . £ 2,106,000 A DAY MORE THAN ESTIMATE . Mr. Bonar Law stated in the House of Com- mons on Wednesday that the daily average expenditure during the seven weeks ending January 19th was £ 7,517,000 . The average for the sixty - three days ending excess of December 12th was £ 6,794,000 , an £ 1,383,000 over the Budget estimate , while for the previous period it was £ 6,648,000 . At present the excess over the Budget es- timate is no less than £ 2,106,000 a day . is sown in the spring and dug in September for assault at the Chery Bench on Wednes - appeared during autumn in all parts of the Salmon ( fresh ) , after Feb. 2 or October . The beet is not matured until day , she admitted that she had an infatuation country . A bad attck by Winter Moth cater Sprats the following March and an excellent substi- therefore be anticipated next Frozen salmon for him . Mrs. Flutter admitted sending Rigby pillars may tute for sugar may then be prepared in the letters , which she now described as a lot of spring , and especially where grease banding Red herrings ( dozen ) following way . The roots are first cooked rubbish , and that she had received a solicitor's has been omitted - preparations should be made Kippers ( dozen ) whole , then peeled and sliced and boiled for rats in every part of Great Britain and Ire- letter asking her to cease her unwelcome at- for dealing with the pest before serious dam- Bloaters ( dozen ) . age has been done . The Board of Agriculture's Smoked sprats ( bundle ) 08 three hours , three quarts of water being used land . to rolbs . of beet . Three ounces of lime is leaflet No. 4 , which may be obtained free It is estimated that there is one rat per Every retailer of fish is to keep a list of added to remove vegetable taste . The thin acre throughout the whole of the country do- from 3 , St. James's Square , S.W.1 . , gives full the new prices in a conspicuous position in particulars of treatment . his shop , and also a list of the prices which yellow liquid is then strained off through a ing a farthing's worth of damage per day to jelly bag into a clean saucepan and simmered food , or £ 15,000,000 worth of damage in rural until it thickens and the colour deepens . places only per annum . KILLING OF HORSES FOR FOOD . When cool it will turn to a most useful treacle Under the new scheme rats ' skins would be which can be used in place of sugar for most cleaned and sent to a London clearing - house Nothing is known at the Ministry of Food purposes . In these days of meat shortage , for tanning , and the bodies collected for bac- regarding the statement made at a meeting of the recipes given for vegetable pie and curry teriological research and for the manufacture Harrow butchers , formed at the request of should prove useful . of glycerine and fertilisers . A shilling per the local Food Committee , that , owing to the Miss Evill laid great stress on the impor- dozen would be paid for rat carcases , and im- shortage of meat , the authorities had re- tance of thorough grading of fruit and vege- prisonment without the option of a fine for quested that a start should be made with the tables before storing , canning or preserving . any person found breeding rats in order to killing of horses for food . AUSTRALIAN SOLDIER'S JUMP . While awaiting the arrival of the police to arrest him on a charge of theft , James Burke , with excellent Garden and suitable Out an Australian soldier , jumped 35 feet to the FRUIT TREE SPRAYING . he is charging . BIG BUD . buildings , in the village of Luston , adjoining ground through a window at the Victoria The attention of fruit growers is called to the main road from Leominster to Ludlow , in League Soldiers ' Club , Charing Cross Road . the necessity for ordering their spraying The yield of black currants in gardens is the occupation of Mrs. Timmins ; also a At Bow Street it was stated that Burke had materials as early as possible . Many growers often seriously reduced by the Big Bud Mite . Freehold Pasture Orchard , near Luston Bury , sustained severe injuries to his forehead . He have already given their orders , others should Swollen buds which are infested by the in the occupation of Mr. W. H. Lane and con - was found by another soldier at the club to do so at once , or they may find that manufac- mites should be picked off and destroyed be- have accumulated a quantity of clothing and turers are unable to meet their demands . fore the end of February . other articles on a bed ready for removal . taining about one acre . obtain rewards . |