THE CANTERBURY SHOW STOCK.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 663, 13 November 1909, Page 8

THE CANTERBURY SHOW STOCK.

' OPINION OF ME A. V. RUTHERFORD. - ::;(Bs ..lolegraph.—Spec(al/Oortnuaon<lent.) .-■■■■ , t ' Christchurch," November 12. if'--. :;.Somor interesting remarks on tho- sheep : classes ? at-.the >CVmterbury ./A.; and P. Show •. , . were made to- a. "Press-" representative.by Mr. , A.tvW..-I{utherlOitl,';ot ; Men(lip 'Hills, who rev : cently. * -returned--from-■■ a--visit -to Australia - . . . While i in--the,-Commonwealth .he visited the .-.- Adolairto-and Sydney Shows —hvo of the big- ... gest ovcaits of - 'tho knul : uV:Australia, .... , ,r VVe art) streets ahead of them as far as . long ; wools are < conccrncd;"- 1 said "Mr:-Ruth«r-----f - : v•: ford.. "A glanco round, the -sheep classes cob s firtn? tHo'opiflion which I fontfCd m Austral,., -: v /-L i IS' tho home'iU 'the Southern I Hemisphere the various English: breeds, I i; ', >::■* v]ust..as., tho~Cdramonwealth' States aTo for the I monno I cannot help thinking that it would i ~b«a ;fnreatmistake to -attempt..to. substitute the long wool in Australia for tho magnificent Hocks j of -me-nnos which havo taken half a -.. century,,to- attaintheir, proscnt -degree of,-ev collonte. Tho mormo mutton stems to cafch on m Australia, as it is less fatty than tho •.■ crossbreds, aad. t'ioreforc.'suits people living In So fir as I couTii see tho Jong wools of the English breeds did not ■ ■' attain tjj- any - high. degree of- excellence over there, rlie "sheep" which I eav. of this r-i> • descnption- haiTa dejected and 'neglected look "j em -'i i They dijl- not:-have -the. robust .^ xhara(;teristic ;of r.th'e 'longi.wopl. in JNew Zealand Thero is a very fair show of • / xt la to he observed that' the

-them^ 'parlour:':treat.»:r:i;4;j^^v.^^^sw>Dld^lddl£.''yery'different ani-w;¥-^-5.; m .a«lWvthey'hail;:to':scratch.fbr;'their / livin'' i/ .' s . ' u or ?. a dd«d .that- there were few -of. tho : Ansi;H)l':.i.l. t [ a ™n i aTanghtß;:;whkhr:appfoached.the horses te'ft:V"»'.Sw^vand-'the'possjHe■ exceptions to tbe .;«:,; j: : ,,rnla ware probably?bredvin New-Zealand. The a , ,:-.-i-f:.some' thmg::could, : .olso'i.be'vsaid'-:in'-a' : .lesser do- '' : '•:■'" ■"■■■■■ ■'■'" ■■■ tlt^™?*. .^β;exhibils :at .the' SydV W '■■iT&-w i ;-? U^? r(I - i^icated.;thai we had 'Sh^^- The Adelaide $ '■••' v -^■''ffi'iM;f Sered :i owii,g to the "cramming of 8^^ -*?»-.gped, but .tW.was - :t| K-Kbi^^V^^ B '^ pared :::;-« ; i^ , ??S^- o ?::^nßtehurch)'.of;shortage: of spac?'

OTHER EXPERTS. „„*"?* " I ! ri:iis ''" reporter, in a sones of "thumb«nmlmt ™ s ' «*"ed bnof opinions from a b n r n ai O oft O aw reSardlnff tho -"- ss tatership^t^ B^ ! m Z m ? "Perfected an; ctSlor Th? inventer who wlvcd lie problem of de fflw witt--00011115 n: ? d '%* a mochi "o cool wmply with an air dreugfit, so that it could ' WM\ & I 0 4 ",11 pafloy !Uld tems with th« 1 "" 1 a" 160 , "nje-csned the jndges very favourably. As to,tfio general farm imploiente those shown at past shows, as perfection had ~very nearly been reached Now fealand manufacturers wore represonted by several vrry mgomous conthrancos, and in some insSn^ - wsffijr orai hetter than th °, Jfr. E. F. CornwaU (New Plymouth), one of the .judges ol Jersey ateted that the fcseys tnado a fairly creditable section of tho u show. Irom a dairy farmer's point of ram thare- was nothing to ediuo up to Jerseys They \Z nfl T S |"? I** ™ theXth S Nortl, Wjy '? rarailal " and Palinorston havo T w i7» D l, who f OO6 ! a for buttor mast navo Jerseys, ho said. "If you go in for & ty to w TO Iy a town g run joa could go in for Hobteins, but you willrnn a" •tongei of being fined for watering yZ■ mUk " ,Hta went on to say ftat, u the butterlt test tho Jerseys emerged victorious, and claimed that the little iawn cows, taking about a quarter of the keeping of the bulky Holatoins eaVo a fntiire before the Jersoy in dairy fannin? nnd he was satisfied that the feed S grow in populanty. As to croLng he !pof 0 Js^yj&'gss? lt £rom the point ° f minent breeder of-Borter Leicesters, and X the Mother Country, was a visitor to the show Last sumrcCT he visited Old Country shows the most important of which was the Highland W*tt, exhlbltlon TJII6 "prcsenfa no fewor than mno counties, and is hold at a Jie said, with tho one wo aro attending to-dav You Canterbury people beat the Highland SonnX Bye 3 tb }*e b «t cattle. Aβ for sheep and horses, tho Canterbury Show is immeasurably superior. I saw a great collection of impfcments at the Staling Show, but, almost wthout exception, wo shonld condemn them nU as obwlote. According (;o our ideas they woro,at least forty year, behind tho times lor instance, I only.saw one double furrow plough on tho ground, and, in-their methods i of farnußj;, they aro just as backward. I saw three horses yoked up ahead of each other drawing a 6Winj plongh, with a man leading tho horsoi, and another man holding tho plough, and, later on, I saw a reaper and binder (which, by tho way, is regarded in rooit parts of Great Britain much in tho light of a new-fangled donee) being pulled by three horses, ,two being in the polet and one leading. One nan'was a riding'the loading horse, and another man was attending to tho machine.