THE NATIONAL DAIRY SHOW.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 846, 18 June 1910, Page 8

THE NATIONAL DAIRY SHOW.

PROGRESS TO DATE. . , (Br foleeratih.—Special Correspondent.! Palmerstan,/June 17. The butter exhibits for the -Winter Dairy. Sho-w are being judged to-day-in ) "Wellington by Mr. Cuddie J and his staff. The cheese exhibits will be judged either to-morrow or Monday. . The cheese, which has been lying fox the past three. months in the Patea Cold Storage Works, arrived here last ilight,' affid is now beir;g unpacked. Some of it is carrying a laVgo amount of mildew, and the scrubbing brush, for cleaning purposes, is largely in evidence. , There will be about fourteen milking machinos at work at. the winter show. The cows- will bo milked in public in covered-in bails, and the shed also is . fitted with seats to acoommodato five hundred spectators at a time. Clowmilking rehearsals are now being held each afternoon, so thpt the animals will 7 not suffer next week from stage fright, and fail to let down their milk. The following is the complete list of judges for the next week's slow: — . Buttor and cheese: Dairy Commissioner and staff. Fruit: Mr. R. Hallamj Orohajd Instructor of the Department of Agriculture. . Vegetables: M. H. C. Gibbons, Wellington. ; Faj-m roots,..etc.: Mr. R. E. Alexander, 'Director of, Lincoln College, Christchurch.. . .Natural ,history: Mr. T. 'W. .Kirk, . .Wellington. Horse competitions: Mr. A. G. Piliner, Mastorton. Home industries: Mr. J. Godber, Wellington. Poultry: Mr. S. Johnson, Palmcrston. Mr. C. Stevenson, one timo manager of the Cardiff factory and now a Govcrn- ' ment dairy instructor, lias been inspecting sheds, yards', an<l appliances in the Stratford district, and is about, at the request of the Ngaere factory ■ directorate,. to do the same for their district (writes ' the Stratford correspondent of tho "Taranaki Herald"). The Stratford directors have been convinced of the necessity tor inspection, and proposo interviewing the Dairy Commissioner to see if an official cannot be stationed permanently in tho district. The old prejudice against inspection seems to be passing away. ' Kansas City is tho world's greatest goat market killing over 100,000 annually. About 50,000 reach Chicago. Goat flesh is the poor man's meat in America. History tells us that for 2000 years the country now known as Holland has oeen famed for its cattle. Although only a small percentage of the cows aru registered, practically all look likopurcbrcds. At the present time there are oyer 230,000 cows in Kriesland, 15,000, of which are registered. Tost assueia- . tions started in the. province of Friesland eight' years ago, and to-day there are over 200 of these associations, having twelve members each. At Leeuwarden there is a large market for heifer calves, which go to South Holland to be raised, and later many are sold from tiiere to Belgium for mill; and beef. The cows are turned to pasture about May 1. '