DAIRY SHOW

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 543, 25 June 1909, Page 8

DAIRY SHOW

9 AT PALHERSTON. 1 EVENTS ON PEOPLE'S DAY. 1 (By Tdeirraph—Special Eeportor) North, Juno 24. Big. crowds attended tho National Dairy Bhpvr horo to-day, 'and, as tho weather has completely cleared up, the prospects of tho show Teaching its end without serious lntorI ferenco by ram aro very good. During tho afternoon. Lady, Plunkot condnotod'a demonstration on tho making of liumamsod milk. The demonstration was held in the Lecturo , Hall of the showgrounds, and was under tho anspices of tho Hunkot Nurso Society There was a large attendance of ladies IWncial results of People's Day were ascartamod this afternoon, fho gates, whicli wero tho only figures v given, realised £200, £60 more than tho corresponding day last year That sum represents a paying attendance of 4000 . people, at tho gates, but does not include tho receipts fiom season tickots nor tickets held by the Dairying Association From present indications, it would appear that last year's total receipts will bo / absolutelj eclipsed iTho attendance this afternoon, / though, not as big as yesterday, v/as most / satisfactory, and included sovcrol contingents from different schools who wero accompanied by' thoir teachers Tho children, as usual, were delighted observers of 'all thero was to be seen. 1 ADDITIONAL AWARDS. Pony Leaping Competition—A. M. Kidd, 1, A. Hill, 2, Mrs E Wcekes, 3 Maiden Hunters' Leaping Event—G Shaw's Kaka, 1, Q. F Ranb/s All Gold, 2, .W. D Buick's Wisdom, 3 ANNUAL SMOKE CONCERT. Tho annual smoke concert of tho Manawatu A and P. Association was held jesterday evening in tho Lecturo Hall, Mr Lancaster presiding 'Among thoso present wero ■" JVfessrs Buick and W C Buclianan, M J 'e, M P Bunny (president of the Mastorton Association), }Jash (Mayor of Palmerston), Wilson (president of tho Farmora' TJmon), Clifton, Cuddio, Singleton, Bark, Hydo, Jaqucs, and Hopkins, of the Agncnltural Department ' In proposing "Tho Agricultural Departt mont, Mr limck stated that, although ho ( had been chaiged with having saidj hard things about tno Department, ho realised that those who made no mistakes never did anything Tho Minister's visit to tho show was a matter for congratulation, as it nould leavo him in no doubt as to wbsre tho Dairy School ought to be He believed that if thero had been such a school in ottstonce, and the inspectors had attended ltj some of them would not have worried tho fanaete as the* had ,done He was sure, however, that the Agricultural Department had been ot very great service to tho country, and they could not do without it. In his reply, Mr Clifton, Chief Inspector of Stock under the late Government and now ' director of experiment farms, referred to tho recently proposed dairy regulations Hβ said , that those regulations, which, ho believed, were not now to be issued m their old form, 1 wero initiated as the outcome of suggestions of leaders oft the dairying industry. At tho request of thoso gentlemen for a conference with an officer of tho Department, he was dologated to meet them, and discuss means of v improving tho 'dairy-ing products It was shewn to bo a fact by '"thoso 'gentlemen— principally directors of factories —that tho managers of their factories were now so skiDed that there was not a great deal of improvement to be looked for in that direction. Tho great , improvement had to come from the farms themselves, m the way of im--1 proved milk This was tho whole Teason for tho drafting of tho dairying regulations Whether a mistake was made in proposing them or not'they were *bo result of the vory best intentions for improving tho prices of what was produced in this Dominion.. Mr Kirk 'said that ho desired to" explain, 1 a matter relating to the Wereroa Experiment Farm, which had been the-subject of criticism It had been stated that certain blights » existed there Well, if there were not then Woreroa would not bo worth keoping It was necessary to maintain stud flocks of insect pegts and fungi at the State farms, m order to experiment with measures for dc- ' stroying thorn. For tie last eighteen months the fruitgrowers had been complaining that there were not enough orchard inspectors m Now Zealand, and ho bebov-ed that before long there would bo the same complaint concerning the dairy Inspectors - M r Middleton (manager of tho Canterbury Central Factory), in-replying to tho toast of Jio Butter and Cheese Industry," said that he behoved that there was more to bo feared v from badly-kept milking machines than from I tho combined churn and butter-worker, bocanso, with the excellent water of New Zealand, a little extra moisture could be lncor- • E" l^? 1 , , no WOISO resalt tha » to defeat 1 the "fakers" at Home. Other speeches and a mnsjcal programmo , followed.