Young Farmers' Club

today to compare with the late Ernst Lubitsch in this particular kind of work. His individuality, so manifest in every sequence, combined with the superb playing of Garbo and Melvyn Douglas and the talented supporting cast to make this revival a nostalgic joy from beginning to end—at least for the few masters present among the audience.

The best among the supporting films was British Transport's "Farmer Moves South", which not only reported the facts with great skill, but dealt with the humour and pathos of such a move with a sure touch. F.J.W.

THE YOUNG FARMERS' CLUB

Chairman: J. B. HUZZARD. Secretary: P. R. B. MEGGINSON.

Vice-Chairman: A. H. SNEESBY. Treasurer: M. T. POWELL. Librarian: R. D. BURDASS. C. B. M. GREGORY.

The Club has enjoyed a very successful term, holding eight meetings. At the General Meeting held on Thursday, 23rd September, the closed membership was raised to 40.

The first meeting of the term was held on Thursday, 30th September. It took the form of a short internal lecture given by J. A. Stark, on judging beef cattle, in preparation for the coming judging competition.

The second meeting of the term took place at Messrs. G. E. and W. Head's farm at Shipton on Sunday, 3rd October. The members were shown their pedigree herd of Large White pigs and were given details of the management of the farm. We also inspected some of the machinery used on the farm and were especially interested in a pig meal mixer which Mr. Head told us had greatly cut his costs.

The third meeting of the term was held on Thursday, 21st October, when Mr. D. M. Thompson, of the Yorkshire Farmers' Bacon Factory, gave a lecture on the grading of pigs for bacon. Mr. Thompson explained various grading systems and showed the Club, by life-size photographs, how the sides are graded.

On Thursday, 4th November, Mr. W. R. Prince-Smith gave a lecture on sheep and showed a film on harvesting called "Harvest Time". Mr. Prince-Smith classified sheep according to their uses and gave the Club some information about sheep diseases. There was a short dinner-time meeting on Saturday, 6th November, when M. T. Powell gave an illustrated talk on judging dairy cattle.

The sixth meeting took the form of a cattle judging competition. It was held at Carlton Farm, near York, by kind permission of Colonel W. F. Jackson, and was conducted by Mr. W. S. Woodsworth, the

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