The Kington Times - August 1917
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Kington Times 11th August 1917 - Page 1
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| Date | 11/08/1917 |
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| Type | Newspaper |
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| Language | English |
| Area | Kington Times |
| Collection Holder | Herefordshire Libraries |
| Date of Publication | 11th August 1917 |
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The ploughman ng done . e tractors town and minster in was Mr. Company , tive , gave ies of the have ex- riod of 20 the same the manu- at against compared e solution aree years machines 1 weather re on the doing the Tractor machine was suit- work in actory for s weight . sed some uced into om actual ricultural that the Overtime of horses has been y weight types of able , for ust be of Having that is ary land gh , will will haul ultivator ; or in the end this could be Canada e of the explain metal to rtime is gradient s clearly ads will ore than ES . gly the al culti- rk done e . Any plough ather is ted that oughing t as the hine of or what it up do all ctly in farmer under £ 5 an here is should lly un- land in wice or tage of nd the ossible t more tractor under free to 5 " THE NORTH HEREFORDSHIRE ADVERTISER AND THE KINGTON TIMES VOL . X. NO . 568 . SALES BY AUCTION . By Messrs . EDWARDS , RUSSELL and BALDWIN . LEOMINSTER HORSE REPOSITORY . NEXT SALE HEAVY and LIGHT HORSES , at Leominster , on Registered at the General Post Office as a Newspaper for transmission in the United Kingdom . KINGSLAND Friday , September 7 , 1917 , Horse Slaughtering Entry Forms on application . Vendors are advised to make early applica- YARD . SATURDAY THE NATION'S FOOD . THE REVISED AGRICULTURAL PROGRAMME FOR 1918 . The Press in general , and the agricultural Press in particular , is discussing the agricul tural programme of the Government for 1918 Not all the writers of letters or articles ou the subject seem to be aware of the exact terms of the demand now made by the Board of Agriculture on the farmers in the interest of the national food supply . Sir Arthur Lee , Director General of Food Production , has therefore issued a statement giving not only the total figures of the revised agricultural programme for the country as a whole for next year , but the details for each of the counties in England and Wales . The public is familiar with the statement , The only place where animals can be dis- than in the original authorative form , that the made more loosely perhaps in popular debate Government urged farmers to plough up an additional " 3,000,000 acres of grass land . " The public to their County Agricultural Executive Com - sected within 14 miles of Leominster . mittee for Permission to Sell . Auctioneers ' Offices : Leominster , Hereford und Tenbury . LEOMINSTER STOCK MARKET . TUESDAY , AUGUST 14th , 1917 . FAT 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 , WORCESTERSHIRE . EDWARDS RUSSELL and BALDWIN ( favoured with instructions from Mr. W. Baldwin ) will offer for Sale by Auction , at the Royal Oak Hotel , Tenbury , on TUESDAY , SEPTEMBER 4th , 1917 , H. J. Pritchard that since the first declaration of this Policy Is now living at BROOMY HILL FARM , KINGSLAND . Letters and telegrams sent to the Yard would be dealt with promptly . Horse Slaughtering , Etc. The only Horse Slaughtering License in North Herefordshire is now held by H. J. carry on this Business in a satisfactory manner to all con- Pritchard who intends to cerned . All Carcases paid for in cash before removal . Letters and Telegrams : 33 , Bargates , Leo- minster , or Broomy Hill , Kingsland . WOMEN ON THE LAND . of the Plough in the Spring , the demand upo our agriculturists has been modified in poses of profitable debate that the public material particulars . It is well for the pur should understand the programme to date , and why it has been revised.te , The Board aim AUG . 11 , 1917 . Free by post per quarter , 1s . 8d . , payable in advance . In 1916 there were 5,730,000 acres under corn crops ( wheat and barley , oats , rye , beans and peas ) in England and Wales . at an addition to this area of 2,600,000 acres in the harvest of 1918 - an addition of 300,000 acres has already been made . Board expect to secure 600,000 of potatoes as In 1918 the Compared with 428,000 acres grown in 1916 . Nearly one - half of this increase has already been obtained . To the area under mangolds and other fodder essential in the winter feed- ing of cows it is proposed to add about 230,000 acres . The total additions to the crops which Miss Talbot , Director of the Women's Branch for the production of milk will thus be may be used either directly as human food or of the Board of Agriculture , was present at 3,000,000 acres as compared with 1916 . the Demonstration of Women's Farm Work at the other hand , reductions in the areas of demonstrations , " she says , " but never till important crops of arable land are proposed , so Bishop Stortford . " I have seen many of these temporary grass and in certain of the less this week , one open to the whole country , nor that the extra 3,000,000 acres of essential were doing the work . There was the cottage ploughing up of about 2,000,000 acres of pe University woman . woman hedging and ditching alongside of the manent grass . Over and above mountain and Westmorland out on the fields where the hoeing and manure permanent grass in England and Wales in In the milking sheds and hill grazing , there were 16,000,000 acres under Wiltshire spreading were going on , I came across an 1916 ; it is thus only necessary to plough one- Yorks , E.R : A. B. C. shop girl , a housemaid from the eighth of our grass land when preparing for Mansion House , and an officer's daughter . the harvest of 1918 ; and it may be estimated WORCESTER Something akin surely to the ranks of the new that quite one - fifth of this task has already army , filled as they are by men of all classes . been completed . On at 3 for 3.30 o'clock in the afternoon , all that valuable FREEHOLD PROPERTY , known as " THE UPPER HOUSE , STOKE BLISS , " situate 6 miles from Tenbury and 7 from one where so many different types of women crops may , it is estimated , be secured by the Bromyard . The Property comprises Brick - built Dwelling House , with excellent Range of Outbuildings ; Pasture , Orchard and Arable Lands , including a productive young Damson Orchard , together with a good Cottage and Garden , the whole containing 91 Acres ( or thereabouts ) . Further particulars of Messrs . MORRIS AND MILES , Solicitors , Tenbury ; or of the AUCTION- EERS , Tenbury , Leominster and Hereford . By Mr. R. H. CEORCE . R. H. GEORGE , Auctioneer , Valuer , Land Agent , and Surveyor , PROPERTY and TIMBER SPECIALIST , MORTGAGE BROKER , VALUER and ARBI- 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 , Leominster Office " Herefordshire . Corn Square . By Messrs . E. HAMMOND & SON . E. Hammond & Son , 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 . By Messrs . JACKSON & MCCARTNEY . CRAVEN ARMS & HEREFORD HORSE SALES . 400 HORSES . HEREFORD : - SATURDAY , AUGUST 18th , 1917 . vay he ust 13th , 1917 . lack of in the ost in phasise ow the style . re the Scase moving velling mment super- as he course Ty are e feel Over- short- emand very than matter Fryer , n the enter- ners . pre- orders which ufac- doubt more ton his lvage Poona the sink . ng a from was early were 11 .. craft by прега CRAVEN ARMS : - must SATURDAY , SEPTEMBER 1st , 1917 . N.B. All Farmers entering Horses btain a Permit to Sell from their County Agricultural Executive Committee . of th bring about this revision of the official pro Various circumstances have combined to gramme for 1918 . policy has proved so acceptable in Ireland and In the first place the new Scotland that those two countries have con- tributed an increased corn production this . year over the year 1916 and have arranged to PRICE ONE PENNY . A Representative of a prominent Firm of Boot and Shoe Manufacturers , glancing over our shelves last week , exclaimed in surprise : " D'You know you're SELLING these Goods at Less Prices than you can BUY them at To - day ! " WE were quite aware of the fact and the knowledge may be useful to YOU these days . ROSS & SON Ltd .. PR8228 | KINGTON . 62 LOCAL FOOD COMMITTEES . FARMERS AND TRACTORS . THEIR CONSTITUTION AND DUTIES . £ 23335 30 15 10 196 48 93 315 N.R. W.R. 252 266 Total , England 7,68 2,320 1,770 WALES . ( a ) ( b ) ( c ) ( d ) Estimated Percent . area of of corn In view of apparent misunderstandings in some quarters it is thought desirable by Sir Arthur Lee , Director General of Food Produc- tion , to make clear the policy of the Food Production Department with regard to Agri- cultural Tractors and other Implements . On Friday , Lord Rhondda , through the courtesy of the Local Government Board for England and Wales and of the Scottish Office for Scotland , approached local authorities throughout Great Britain with a request for their co - operation in the work of Food Control , and forwarded to them certain detailed infor- mation as to the method of control to be adopted . The authorities approached for England and Wales are the Municipal Borough Increase permanent to total Councils and the Urban and Rural District Councils . These authorities are asked to ap- for 1918. over 1916. ploughed . of 1918 , Point Food Committees which will administer parts of the country , and to see that the best a new scheme of sugar distribution , continue per cent . the campaign for food economy , and , when of Corn area in suggested corn area grass arable to be area County . While watching the manure tilting and spread- ing , I asked a farmer of wide experience , what he really thought of the women . His answer was quite definite : Eight of those here are toppers - three have done it as well and even better than ang man - the rest ( and there were 315 entries in all in that class ) are no good , but they looked as if they had never learnt add largely to their tillage for 1918. This the job . Probably they hadn't for it must factor has enabled the Government consider- be remembered that these women had only ably to reduce its call upon England and four weeks ' training . Three farmers with whom I spoke seemed to agree that women been the difficulty , without unduly interfering Anglesey have a special aptitude in the case of stock . with the supply of man power for the Army , Brecon Wales . Other factors in the situation have They are gentle and that tells with an the Navy , and munition and other essential Cardigan animal , ' said one . sooner send a woman with his milk cart than machinery to carry out the whole of the Gov- Carnarvon Another told that he'd services , of providing sufficient labour and Carmarthen a boy because she doesn't hang about so ernment's agricultural programme in much , and comes back to time better . ' Al- was a good object lesson in what women can together , the Bishops Stortford Demonstration actually do on the farm . " POTATO DISEASE . FURTHER PRECAUTIONS RECOMMENDED . Although there is no need for panic there is need for prompt action by all potato growers who have not yet sprayed their crops . Cases of " the disease " have now been reported from the following places : - Pembroke ( near Fishguard Harbour ) , Swansea , Cornwall ( Red- ruth ) , Devon ( Kingsbridge and Barnstaple districts ) , the Isle of Wight , Dorset , Hants ( Odiham ) , Berks ( Maidenhead ) , Sussex ( Hove ) , Surrey ( Walton on Thames and Godalming ) Buckinghamshire ( Wooburn Green ) , and Gloucestershire . The Devon outbreaks are much the most serious .. The official ad- season . the land . case one Denbigh of BERE5858 Thousands of Acres . 41 18 18 53 37 19 19 65 77 23 23 63 93 41 41 70 35 16 16 56 71 31 31 62 Flint .. 34 17 17 63 48 27 27 63 26 II II 63 33 33 66 30 30 65 31 14 14 60 642 280 280 S.329 includes Wheat , 2,600 2,050 The aim of the Government's revised plan Glamorgan ( as it was the aim of the original ) is to break Merioneth up a sufficient amount of the poorer quality Montgomery grass land that has fallen down since 1870 or Pembroke thereabout to grow enough cereals to " render RADNOR country self - supporting in extremity . " It has never been suggested that Total ( Wales . grass land only should be used to obtain the Total , England additional corn crops ; some of these it was and Wales assumed would be grown on existing arable sight of this latter fact , or to have concluded NOTE . " Corn Many of the critics seem to have lost Oats , Rye , Beans and Peas . was less eager to utilize the arable land more ( which was not the case ) that the Government advantageously , by changing the rotation or CORN PRODUCTION by improved cultivation or both , than to break of Agriculture took the view that we could . not up more grass . At the same time , the Board reckon , under war conditions with a shortage of labour and fertilisers , upon any great in- crease next year over the average corn yields BILL . HOSTILITY IN COMMONS TO BONUS . " REVIVING THE CORN LAWS . " A clause was added to the Corn Production Monday on the Prothero , empowering the Bill in the Commons motion of Mr. on the " The Cabinet having decided that a large increase must be made in the acreage under corn and potatoes for the harvest of 1918 , it has been the duty of the Food Production Department , acting through the Agricultural Executive Committees , " says Sir Arthur Lee , " to apportion the task between the different use is made of existing resources in the way labour , horses , machinery and other In this connection the first ob- their organisation is complete , deal with other requisites . foodstuffs , including bread and meat . They ect aimed at is to ensure that farmers will also be asked , at an early date , to assume throughout the country make the fullest use special responsibilities in regard to food prices . of the resources actually at their disposal or For all important foodstuffs the Food Con- procurable in the ordinary ways , and it is in troller will fix a general scale of prices based no sense the policy of the Department to re- at each stage on the reasonable profits of lieve agriculturists of any portion of the The Committees will be entrusted national task which they are able to perform with the enforcement of this scale and will themselves .. be asked to advise on any modifications of it gramme , however , it is inevitable that the To accomplish the full pro- that may be shown to be necessary in their Department , acting through the War Agricul- traders . districts . to assume will This ex- tural Committees , The Food Control Committees thus to be responsibility for that residue of the task which will have constituted will consist of not more than 12 is beyond the power of the farmers to carry out members each , some of whom may be co - opted , unaided . and each Committee must include at least purpose alone , that the Department is obtain- It is for this purpose , and for this Barley , one woman and one representative of labour . ing , and placing at the disposal of the County Their necessary expenses will be a charge on Committees , a large number of tractors , horses the Exchequer ; for , while , free to delegate and other requisites ( with such additional work as they think fit to sub - committees , they labour as can be procured ) , and arrangements will need a special staff and will be put to have already been made for the purchase or other cost . It will be their first duty to safe - loan of the full quantities required , with a guard the interests of consumers . Immediately the Local Committees are con- tingencies . substantial margin for wastage and other con- stituted they will proceed to register grocers conflicting demands for labour , and other war Owing to shipping difficulties application being September 15th , and after perienced in securing those extra resources , and other retailers of sugar , the last date of troubles , considerable delays . have been ex- have given valuable assistance in selling and should be noted , is in the hands of local men by the failure of the occupier to destroy suff when forms of application for sugar cards will does not imply , however , nor is it desirable , The county police per acre of the ten years preceding the war . Board of Agriculture , in any case where they October 1st no retailer who remains unregis- but these delays are being gradually over- tered will be allowed to deal in sugar . The selection of grass land for plough , it were satisfied that crops were being damaged any steps until towards the end of September , greatly improve in the near future . distributing materials for spraying and in the with special qualifications for deciding wisely The public will not be called upon to take tractors come , and it is anticipated , with regard to actual spraying of threatened crops . Indeed especially , that deliveries . every police station may be said to have be- and fairly ; and it is hoped that public opinion ciently the rabbits or vermin come a " first aid " station in the fight be of enlightened patriotism . will support the County Executives in a spirit authorise any on the land , to be distributed by the Postal Authorities . These that the Food Production Department will person to kill or take tween sprayer and blight . forms must be filled up by householders , and ever be in a position by means of Government Where the Execu- animals . vice which is being given in Devon will equally much permanent grass land as the Food Pro - which contains the guarantee to growers posted back to the Food Office not later than pected to carry out themselves . On the con- tive finds it impracticable to break up as Mr. Clough moved the omission of Clause all members of their households and must be other work which show the names , age , sex and occupation of Tractors to relieve farmers of ploughing and apply to any other districts where outbreaks duction Department suggests , it is open to next six years . may occur . It is as follows : ( 1 ) Spray at them to substitute of wheat and oats of a minimum price for the October 5th . they are able and once thoroughly all crops still green . an additional area Burn all tops that have died down , or almost temporary grass , although this is a course they were from 1907 to 1914 the taxpayer would This card must be taken by the householder whatever additional resources they may need In due course the householder trary it is desired and anticipated that far- He pointed out that if the will receive from the Food Office a household mers and others will make every effort to average prices from 1917 to 1922 were what sugar card in response to his application . equip themselves at their own expense with died down , through disease . which obviously must be pursued with caution . be called upon to pay £ 44,000,000 , although ened crops early . Unless the position of affairs should become the farmers might not have produced a soli- unexpectedly more serious during the late tary extra bushel of either wheat or oats . to the tradesman from whom he desires to in the way of Tractors , implements , horses summer , the official opinion is that with the buy his sugar . The tradesman will retain one and other requisites . In this way alone can good will of agriculturists generally and the they would not have an extra bushel of corn The State in all was to pay 96 millions , and part ; the other part he will stamp with his the full National task be accomplished , for , continuance of the energetic and public to show for it . Further , they were being in- customer , who must be prepared at a later it can be no part of its object to relieve agri- name , or sign , and this must be kept by the however big the Government effort may be , possible to approximate very nearly to the food of the people for six years spirited action of the Executives , it should be vited to gamble on the average price of the date to produce it on demand when making culturists of their proper responsibilities . ideal of an additional 2,600,000 acres of corn This clause put back the clock of political pro- following upon the breaking up of about gress 229 purchases . The grocer's own supplies will 2,000,000 acres of permanent grass . corn bounties first granted , and was the most unstatesman- STATEMENT SHOWING THE REVISED peal of the execrated Corn Laws . It was cal like and reactionary legislation since the re- AGRICULTURAL PROGRAMME FOR 1918 , culated to make John Bright and Richard FOR EACH COUNTY IN ENGLAND AND formation of an Cobden turn in their graves , and he prophesied Anti - Corn Law League after the pattern of 1838 . ( b ) Every vote given for ( c ) ( d ) Clause I. was a vote cast for the revival of Estimated Percent . the Corn Laws , and for that vote every hon . area of of corn member would be brought to strict account Increase permanent to total at the bar of public opinion . Corn area in grass arable suggested corn area to be area for 1918. over 1916. ploughed . of 1918 . per cent . ( 2 ) ( 3 ) Lift threat- FRUIT CANNING . The Food Production Department has ar ranged for the manufacture of several Entries for Catalogue close first post Aug- hundreds of small canning plants of the American model known as the " Royal Home Canner . " The Departinent has also placed contracts for the making of 500,000 cans ( or tins ) to be used with the Home Canner . This useful apparatus , by means of which fruit and vegetables are preserved quickly and economi- cally , may be obtained from the manufacturer , WALES : through the Food Production Department , at £ 6 10s . , carriage free . A supply of cans is obtainable from the same source . Demon- strations in the use of the canner are being given at 3.30 and 5.30 daily at the Economy Exhibition in the Westminster Bridge Road , London . Arrangements are being made for County . similar demonstrations in different parts of the country , and a pamphlet containing detailed Bedford instructions on canning will be sent free on Berks application to the Food Production Depart - Bucks ment , 72 , Victoria Street , S.W.I. JACKSON & MCCARTNEY , Craven Arms & Hereford . Auctioneers . KINGTON , HEREFORDSHIRE . 4.000 ANNUAL SALE OF Radnor Forest and Shropshire Down EWES , WETHERS , LAMBS and RAMS ; also about 200 FAT and STORE CATTLE . FRIDAY , SEPTEMBER 7th , 1917 . E9 in Prizes will be offered for Sheep . Entries for Catalogue close first post on Thursday , August 30th , 1917 . JACKSON & MCCARTNEY , Auctioneers . Craven Arms & Hereford . KINGTON STOCK SALES . THURSDAY NEXT , AUGUST 16th , 1917 . WILD BIRDS FOR FOOD . The Board of Agriculture and Fisheries have Derby made an Order authorising in England and Devon Wales the killing , on and from August 1st Dorset until the next close season , of certain migra- Durham tory wild birds , with a view to increasing the Essex food supply of the country . The birds to Gloucester which the Order applies are : -Curlew , Knot , Hampshire Whimbrel , Golden Plover , Red Shank , God- Isle of Wight wit , Snipe , Woodcock , Teal , Widgeon , Mal- HEREFORD Brent Hertford MESSRS . JACKSON & MCCARTNEY will lard , Shoveler , Pochard , Pin - Tail , Sell by Auction 150 FAT and STORE CATTLE . Goose , Barnacle Goose , Pink - footed Goose , Hunts White - fronted Goose and Grey lag Goose . Kent The Order ( as the Food Production Depart- Lancs . ( a ) 23222223RZARASFERRED TONERTRUD 1281001 SAESTERNERALFERNAND SEABRESTESHEARENCERE 60 65 68 5828888955 5 5 5 8 8 8 8 8 8 858 358388335558535555555 of years , when to come were GOVERNMENT AND HOPS . be authorised by the Local Food Control Office on the basis of the number of customers who have thus been registered by him . re - organisation of the method of sugar dis- As the tribution throughout the trade must necessar- CROP FOR 1917 TO BE TAKEN OVER . ily take a great deal of time , the scheme can- not become finally effective before December 1917 will be taken over by a Committee , of A scheme has been approved by the ernment by which the crop of hops grown in Gov- 30th . It will be the retailer duty , when the allow - culture . Full particulars will be published as Management acting under the Board of Agri- customer is supplied twice in one week .. ance is finally made regular , to see that no easy check is suggested . some outstanding details have been He may number the order in a box ; when the purchase for the position to purchase from all growers the cards deposited with him , and keep them in The main feature of the scheme , however , is week is made he will be able to transfer the hops they pick this year , and to pay them im- that the managing committee will be in a card bearing the customer's number to a mediately a price designed to cover the cost second box . There will be a check , too , upon of production . An soon as settled . Mr. Wing seconded for the purpose , he ex- plained , of enabling the Government to reply . Mr. Prothero said the clause was essential to the Bill . The mover of the amendment had made no addition to the arguments they had any fraudulent person who , obtaining two heard before , and therefore he did not propose forms of application , may have given two ad- to accept the amendment . Mr. Acland said a very large change had tradesmen ; for the Committee will have its dresses and deposited card - portions with two been made in the clause in Committee . lists of consumers overhauled by clerks respon- clause could , however , not have any such effect sible for groups of streets . as the Corn Laws , and there was no possibility fraud are a heavy fine , and imprisonment with Order in Council of May 19 referred . No grower will be allowed to pick more than The penalties of 50 per cent . of his .1914 acreage , to which the of the consumer having to pay a farthing hard labour . On the other hand a retailer will be the main provisions . These The more for his loaf as a consequence of it being who can be shown to have unreasonably re- passed . The guarantee was valuable , although ( fused to supply sugar to a registered customer it might not , and very , likely would not , op- may be deprived of his certificate of registra- He thought it had already produced a good effect . tion and consequent supplies . erate . Mr. Adamson contended that farmers had made good profits during the war , and quoted the case of a Scottish farmer , who farmed 692 acres of arable and 78 acres of grass land . This farmer , he said , made a profit of £ 8,467 last year , and , after paying rent and income- tax , the net profit was £ 6,815 . He thought the Bill would result in an agitation for the nationalisation of the land . The amendment was defeated on a division Thousands of Acres . 105 20 63 135 38 33 66 119 40 40 70 Cambridge 152 30 26 64 Isle of Ely 109 10 20 60 Cheshire 136 50 35 60 Cornwall 204 So 25 60 Cumberland 128 55 72 30 67 333 130 61 121 50 61 107 40 381 So 176 246 20 111 153 95 216 60 171 61 97 45 66 by 115 to 21 votes . ( Holland ) III 20 ( Kesteven ) 192 65 ( Lindsey ) 381 62 Middlesex 9 2 Monmouth Norfolk Northants Peterborough 40 25 506 95 147 50 57 21 68 146 55 165 35 166 50 27 7 178 50 160 75 68 132 55 227 15 67 159 ΙΟ 64 72 18 63 86 35 30 67 Caruso ! the Sussex W. 96 30 25 64 mand . prices . Fat calves changed hands at good great traveller , Robinson Caruso ! " No quotable change in pigs . Warwick 127 50 50 67 1,000 LAMBS . Sale at 12 o'clock . FAT and STORE SHEEP and ment explains ) does not authorise persons to Leicester kill such birds in contravention of their ten- Lincs . ancy agreements , or on land or water on which they are not entitled to kill the birds ; nor does it exempt any person from the pro- visions of the , Gun License Act , 1870 . Catalogues upon application . Offices : Craven Arms and Hereford . MARKETS . CATTLE . ROBINSON CARUSO ! Hereford , Wednesday . - Prices at the Here- ford stock market showed a slight general fall.is , There was an all - round decline in the numbers tenor . While motoring in New York State , " Oxford stock , but no doubt this was accounted for continued the great singer , " the automobile Rutland In the drenching rain all the morning . Beet broke down , and I sought refuge in a farm- SALOP trade was not so brisk , although best quality house while the car was being repaired . I Somerset fat cattle fully maintained late rates . " No man is so well known as he thinks he Northumbrland says Enrico Caruso , the world - famed Nottingham .. Cow became friendly with the farmer , who asked Stafford beef was not so keenly sought after , and a backward tendency prevailed . The sheep trade , The farmer leaped to his feet and seized me Suffolk w . on the whole , was firmer , and wether mutton by the hand . Little did I think I would Surrey was a trifle dearer , but lambs were decidedly see a man like you in this here humble Sussex E. heaper , the supply being larger than the de- kitchen , sir ! ' he exclaimed . me my name , and I told him it was Caruso . Suffolk E. The weekly allowance may vary as the national stocks vary . A customer will not be compelled to take it , but if a week be missed there will be no claim to allowance in the week following . ments will be made for the registration in the case of permanent removal a double Arrange transfer of The grower will have to wait for the bal- management paid off . hops can be realised and the expenses of ance of the price - i.e . , his profit , until the until after the appointment of the managing committee , on which The details of management cannot be settled erly represented . the hop growers and other trade interests concerned will be . prop- FARMERS COMPLAIN OF SOLDIER LABOUR . At a meeting in Shrewsbury on Saturday of the Welsh Agricultural Council complaints to another district . Caterers , residential institutions and manu- facturers will all be subject to a similar control . were loud and insistent as to the broken reed Instead of cards series of vouchers will be of soldier labour as supplied to the farmers of issued to these classes , giving them authority Wales . Mr. William Edwards , of Anglesey , said out 24 weeks . to buy sugar up to certain amounts during of the hundred soldiers sent them not more Each voucher will cover a four than half a dozen were of any use to agricul- With certain modifications BOTTLES FOR PRESERVING . weeks ' supply . salers . less . The orders for glass jars for preserving fruit this arrangement will also apply to whole- ture . The character of the others was hope- and vegetables received by the Food Produc- tion Department are so numerous and the output in the present difficult war conditions ! -is so much below the manufacturers ' esti mates , that the Food Production Department COCKEREL SOLD FOR £ 5,080 . Mr. Fryson's celebrated cockerel was Mr. Lloyd Jones said out of the 100 sent to Denbighshire 30 only had had agricultural experience . Mr. Bach said of the 200 sent to Brecon and exhi- Radnor there were only about 30 with agricul- is unable to accept further orders . Every Lited , sold , and re - sold at a British Farmers ' tural experience - the rest were artists , den- effort is being made to secure the speedy de- Red Cross Fete at Spalding on Monday , realistists , weavers , street singers - anything except livery of consignments already ordered . ing a further £ 331 , and bringing the grand farm men . THE OTHER ONLY COUNTED TEN . The fact was those men were of use to farmers , That sort of thing had made the whole matter of soldier labour for the farmers a farce . Those who wish to obtain bottles now should total raised by the bird for war charities to no use in the army , and certainly were of no place orders immediately with their local £ 5,080 . local tradesmen . In accordance with an ar- rangement arrived at between the Food Pro- duction Department and representatives of the Retail Trade , the price to purchasers of 2lb . jars obtained through ordinary trade channels , should not exceed 6s . 6d . per dozen . Mother ( to pummelled son ) : " Ivor , how often have I told you to stop before fighting 1918 food production scheme was to be a suc- The Council passed a resolution that if the and count up to a hundred ? " what I did , but Dai Jones's mother only told by the army authorities . Ivor : " That's cess they must be guaranteed skilled labour him to count ten . " A |