TO DUNEDIN SHOW.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 205, 23 May 1908, Page 3

TO DUNEDIN SHOW.

• BIG, DEPARTMENTAL DISPLAY. ..\A large display of/Experimental Farm products arid,biological-specimen's is/on its way, or. in 'conrso' /of backingj jto t'p be Btagediafc the 1 iwinferVshbw;. there .'liext''week. In' addition,'to the 'Ruakura contributions, referred to• in- another'paragraph,-Aya'oronga is sending • specimens of. grass ■ and ./noxious weeds 1 growing inkpots, assorted eucalypti'in pots, an instructive group of shelter trees with" labels attached','giving information concerning them, ; c'tc. : ' . Tauranga is. sending, a supply of fruits; which' will occupy' 'a spaco of . about 140 6qup.re feet.. ■■'■■■■ \ ■' v' : Moumahaki's' part, /will 'consist' chiefly : of roots, including; sugar b'eote ahii potatoes. .. ■ Woraroa : will be ; represented by apples, by grasses, ; we'edsi • and -other plants in pots-, by six. bales of dressed hemp from six of the varieties recently isolated on the Weraroa- fairm",i ; 'labelled with the ; names and grading points, - and .having close to each bale •a. hank from tho bale, and a. growing plant of tlie variety from which the'fibre was obtained. .' :!■> The various groups will arrivo in .Wellington in time to'-proceod South- by Tuesday's Bteamer.; Mr. -Robinson, .of the staff, of theDirectors of.'Experiment Farms, will have charge; of, them; In addition to the exhibits stated, each experiment farm, will send/ turves, of grass,;growing- in 'boxes to-:'shpw' the effect .of top-dressing with various manures in different districts. Tho whole of the exhibits will cover 2500 square, feet of ; spaco. .

The-. Biological;- Division. Trill send specimens- of fruit; from all parts of the 'Dominion, and they; will be arranged in'a .way to : show the differences in', the produce of, different soils and. climates. collections of tho seeds of- grasses and fodder plants, collections 'of the impurities ,-and adulterations usually found in those seeds; a collection of the diseases of farm crops and orchard plants and crops; some' of the leading insect 'pests, and- breeding cages containing useful insects'at'work; a collection of honey from all parts of tho Dominion, apiary appliances, otc. ; ; dried grasses, fodder plants, and weeds, named, and with notes attached giving information as to their usefulness or otherwise; the Government exhibit at Dunedin'.-is going .to be something-worth seeing and studying, and as it will be repeated at tho Manawatu Show, our northern friends will have equal opportunity of seeing it. ■ i ' " ■ ' ' '