The Young Farmer's Club

postman, played by Tati himself, to emulate the "hustle" methods of the U.S.A. postal system, after seeing a film of the same in a travelling cinema which was part of the fair. A tribute, I think, is paid to the visual and, therefore, real qualities of the film when I say that without sacrifice of enjoyment we could ignore the French dialogue and probably, in our ignorance, most of us did.

It would be most ungrateful to conclude these notes without thanking Shepherd for the immense amount of work he has put in to improve the acoustics of our films; we have only one problem left now—how to stop him trying, during the course of the film, to make good even better. F•J•W.

YOUNG FARMERS' CLUB

Leader: MR. K. G. COULTHARD.

Committee: C. M. C. BURDASS HOLMES (Secretary), (Chairman), R. D. WHEATLEY (Vice-Chairman), D. C. H. C. BULMER (Treasurer), C. W. Thompson (Librarian), A. N. WYATT-GUNNING, A. G. QUARMBY.

The Annual General Meeting of the Club was held on 25th September, when R. D. Wheatley, H. C. Bulmer, and A. G. Quarmby were elected to the Committee, together with the four old members. Thirteen new members were then elected to the Club.

On 9th October we visited Northern Dairies, Ltd., where we were shown the various processes which lead up to the bottled milk, which is familiar to everybody.

On 30 h October we visited Richardson's Fertilizers, Ltd., where, after a very enjoyable tea, the members were shown round the factory and saw the comp'ete process of the production of artificial fertilizer from the raw materials to the bagged product.

The first lecture of the term was given on 6th November by Mr. Trowbridge, of the Yorkshire Institute of Agriculture, who talked on "Dairy Husbandry". As his subject was a vast one he divided it into two parts. Firstly he talked about the various breeds of cattle and pointed out their good and bad points with respect to milk production. The second part consisted of a film strip on milk production, which strongly emphasised the importance of hygiene at all stages.

On 20th November two members of the Club gave lectures. The first was by A. G. Quarmby, who spoke on the "Milking Mach'ne". In his lecture he described the Alfa-Laval machine and its workings. The second lecture was given by A. H. Sneesby, who spoke on "Pest Destruction". He described the methods of eliminating both rats and rabbits, and produced examples of poisons, traps and snares to stress his points. 38