PASTORAL SHOW.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 2, Issue 140, 20 November 1877, Page 2

PASTORAL SHOW.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE AKAROA MAIL

Sir, —I noticed in one of your late issues that you considered that the Pastoral Association ought to hold their show before the Christchurch one. I beg greatly tn differ from your opinion. In the first instance, it is held too early now for the produce to show to advantage. Let cheese be ever so good, it is not fit for consumption in less than six months from the time it is made. And no dairyman with a spark of sense, would drive a first--lass dairy cow, in full milk, perhaps for some miles, over rough roads, for the sake of showing her. Mr Editor, these sort of machines don't travel well in hot weather ; it would be quite likely that her flow of milk would be greatly retarded through her being irritated by driving. I certainly should advocate the show being held in March, when the hurried times of cheesemaking would be over, and cattle would be in better condition to show, and men better able to attend it. Many farmers might be induced to buy or sell their bulls, and an auction sale after the show was over, would be the right thing in the right place. I have been told several time 3by Plains men, why there are no cows on the Peninsula worth showing. My answer has been, there is no one shows cows but a few who live close to the show grounds. It does not answer to drive full milch cows. Any gentleman that has a cow up to the following description, I can guarantee that he will walk off with the blue ribbon. The dairyman that has one will do well to ..show her:— She's long in the face, she's fine in her horn, She'll quickly fat without cake or corn ; She's clean in her jaws, and full in her chine ; She's heavy in flank, and wide in her loin ; She's broad in her ribs, and long in her rump. A straight and fiat back, without e'er a hump ; She's wide in her hips, and calm in her eyes ; She's fine in her shoulders, and thin in her th : ghs ; She's light in her neck, and small in her tail ; She's wide in her breast, and good at the pail ; She's line in her bone, and silky of skin ; She's a grazier's without, and a butcher's within. Yours, &c, Onco a Cockney Butcher, now a Peninsn'a Dairyman.