SHOW AT APITI.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1097, 8 April 1911, Page 8

SHOW AT APITI.

• GOOD FARM PRODUCE. The Apiti Horticultural Show held this week is reported to have been a successful., fixture. The "Feilding Star" says: "In the farm products the dairy/butter was good, better than the separator butter, which was too new, and would : have been : all the better a day-later.- 'The. farm roots were excep-tional,-arid ;.n6 one would-havo dreamt that a dry'season had..beta experienced. The, Crimson King turnips were weighed after, judging, and tho first prize for three" turned th? scale at 501b., the 'second three 'totalling 57-}ib. The man-golds-were also great, roots, the prizewinning two weigning 351b. and the second prize couple 23Jib. The field peas had ripened well and the ' John Bull swedes and ordir.cry. swedes were well worth a...]flace' in anfc show.. • Two in!terestingJ exhibits ' weh)'- green ' maize plants', and' sorghunr shown by Mr. J. Ei.-'Clarlt,-. of Valley 'Road.' ''- The maize was toil feet high' and had only been sown, in December last. Mr. Clark says he cuts the maize when young and then gets a .second growth. from it. The sorghum, is capital for fattening,' but must-not.'be fediuntrl iti has lowered. "The .'school gardens^'at. .Etuwai and Apvti.'.shqw'e'd 'coflodtjon'^.; of vegetables, including .turnips, beans, kohl rabi, . potatoes, maize,, cabbage, vegetable marrows,' beet,' onions,' otc., and although tho former school was a decided first, Apiti; had no reason to be ashamed of the .display.', "Tho' .vegetable section !'was a'feature of tlie show,' Mr. Pettia;rew's potatoes swept the the board'. The carrots, turnips, and-parsnips shown, were very fine, while tho onions and pumpkins could hardly bo excelled. "The'fruit was a small section.''