THE LATE CHRISTCHURCH SHOW.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume VI, Issue 561, 29 November 1881, Page 2

THE LATE CHRISTCHURCH SHOW.

To the Editor,

Sir,—Having noticed a paragraph in your valuable paper of the 14th irist, with reference to the fat bullook that obtained the first prize at the above show, allow me, as one interested in the matter, to make a few remarks, as I hardly think it fair that Mr Checkloy should have all the honor and credit bestowed on him because he was the breeder of the said beast. In the first place, it is a question whother he bred him or not, as he may have purchased and branded him when a calf. Bnt then again, even if Mr Cheekley was the breeder, who fattened and grazed the beast and got him up to such a standard? Not Mr Cheekley, as it never laid in his power to do so, with all his cocksfoot grass. He was purchased about five years ago, when a three-year-eld, in the yoke, by Mr VV. Birdling, Sen., but finding him not capable of being a worker, he was thrown out and fattened on that gentleman/a Little River estate, solely upon grass and hay. He was sold about three months ago ftt the Addington s.ile yards for £34, Mr John Ferguson being the purchaser, and he, I have been given to understand, has since sold him to go to Dunedin for £50. Tin's same bullock has been acknowledged by some of the boat judges of stock in this Province to be the largest fnt'beast in Naw Zealand, being larger than either of the Iwo exhibited by the Messrs Hay Bros, last year. I think it is the grazier, and not the breeder, that should have the most credit, as Mr Birdling lias generally maintained the credit of sending iirst-clasa .stock into the market. —Yours etc.,

AN ADMIKEtt OF GOOD SIOCK.