NATIONAL DAIRY SHOW.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1159, 21 June 1911, Page 10

NATIONAL DAIRY SHOW.

OPENED BY LORD ISLINGTON. FEATURES OF THE ANNUAL CONFERENCE, REVIEW AND HONOURS LIST. {By Telegraph—Special Hoportcr.)

. Palmerston North, June 20. The eighth National Dairy Show to opened hero at noon to-day by. Lore Islington. In the course of an address tho Gov ernor stated that, he did not think thru too much imporlTiice could be attachct to the conference which was always hole during the. period of the show. To-daj the prosperity of any country would de pend largely upon the amount of scion tifio.treatment appLied to. industry. Everj day new counlries were being developed and the industries of new countries wen being expanded, and if Now Zealand wa; to inaijitain its position, New Zealanden ■ could only ensure that 'by applying to the agricultural industries all modern scien tific knowledge. lord Islington went or to say that he wns very pleased to lean that there had boon a marked increas< during the-last decade in* tlic-staple, products- of the country.' '/This : incrcas< showed what the country could do, nnc nlso what a profitable demand there was for New Zealand produce in other part: ■ of the world. As an agricultural land lord from .England, it "made his mtmtr water" when he saw the New Zealam farmer's immunity from restrictions With these natural advantages the farm ers in this country should not, let, .; spirit of complacency creep in. The; should go ahead energetically, and maki use of science. -The- question of markets 'for dairy produce was pne' which thej ichonld' eoncentrato thciv thoughts on •They should look about-to fee whal .markets there were- besides London. Bns tol was a very good market. As to meat "ho believed "European countries -ivoulc ibe, obliged to remove their restrictions..or the importation of frozen meat verj shortly. Their population was increasing enormously. He• thqiipht also that then fhotild be'a market in Canada for meal and dairy produce, and New Zealandors , chould get in there as soon as possible. Department Shows Up Well. Tho Department of Agriculture has tin best exhibit which it' has yet made" ill any show in this part of the island Half the produce hall is occupied by I'hf well-filled stalls and stands of the De partment. The facilities offered the offi cers for display purposes are greater thai before, and the result is considerably increased in attractiveness. Mr. Macpher eon is in chargo of the-exhibit as a whole : and various heads of Departments, anc . other officials are in attendance. The Dc partmental officers have adopted the plar of wearing p. distinguishing badge so thai people interested ■ in tho*. .exhibits, .am wishing for information' about them, wil know whom to ask. Previously, * monj have goiio away from the Department'* stalls minus the information wanted, just because they did hot know'by sight tin man' in charge. • : The orchards division of the Depart meiil' has a fine display of fruit splendid ly set out. Some of tho leading varieties of apples and pears—those yariotiewhich are sold in* the 'New .Zealand mar kets,'and aro exported—are , shown, nn< ticketed with hand? information. Thf test .has been a severe,'one in regard jjt.t the ".keeping qualities of New Zealani' fruit, for the bulk of that seen in thi stall, after being in the cool chamber foi about ten weeks, was taken out' for thi Auckland Show nearly five weeks ago and exhibited there for.six .days, • thei railed to Hamilton, and shownfor a week and afterwards brought hero to be shown In spite of that, it appears to. be ii excellent condition. Some of tho vnrietie: of apples which have stood the test par ticularly well are:—Stunner, Munroo': Favourite, Cleopatra, Jonathan, Roni< Beauty, American Wine Sap, Delicious Scarlet Queen, Ballarat; Seedling, anc Red 'Spy. Among tho better kinds of pears, whicl have kept very well, are: P. Barry, Uar nngtou's Victoria, Beurro Easter, ant Winter Xclis. Several methods of packing are illustrat ed. As an adjunct there is* an exhibit o the principal orchard pests, this: exhibi •being illustrative of what growers hav< .to contend with to keep their orchard' ■free from disease. From the Moumahaki State Farm then is an exhibit of farm roots, apples, »rain and other growths. The chief roofs a" turnips, mangolds, pumpkins, sugar beet and carrots. The grain consists of bar ley and wheat. Oranges and lemons.ol :the table show what can bo done as fa south as Moumahaki if thero is goo ( .shelter. Also on this stall are sixty va : neties of potatoes grown at the Ruakur. State Farm. Lucerne—a crop which his been raisec successfully at Moumahaki-is exhibited One of the roots is aiioitt twelve feet lon<* One sample was cut from a paddock sow] in November last, and it has apparently turned out splendidly. Our Wine and Honey. Over 100 varieties of honey are showi by tho Department, and every variety ha: an instructive ticket attached. The col' lection comprises New Zealand and for ei£ii kinds, the latter including American Fijian, Canadian, English, Australian, am Scotch, home of the Scotch honey wa gathered on Flodden Field, the Nor'thum Dorlayd battle ground, where the Englisl and the Scotch fought in 1513. The ex ■hibits show that iS'ew Zealand honey com pares more than favourably with'hone produced in any other part of the world Five varieties of wine from tho AV<ie xeiiga State Farm are shown—claret, hock irontiynac, madiera, and untermented The officer in charge stated that the wim made at AVavrenga is bought up as fast a it can be made there. They keep twi seasons in stock, so. that the outpu goes into consumption when it is thre< years old. Last year they made noarj , 10/JOO gallons, and they expect to mak' 10.000 gallons from now on. At iinother stand a lar;;o. number o •varieties of grapes are shown in preserve tiou as typical. hunches of tho variou kinds. Preserved peaches, apricots, am plums are also shown.' Co-operative Field Epcrimcnts, One of the most valuable department of the whole "show is tho co-operatin field experiments section. On .one .'sidi of a large stall are Soul It Island crops and'on the other aide North Island pro ducts. The South Islnud roots were ou nf the ground over two weeks ago, and p they have suffered in size slightly, bii they nro chosen as being typical of th varieties which they represent. Thpri aro -twenty-one varieties of mangold grown at the Siinnysidu Mental llospih in Contcrbury. Thero . nro twenty-si: varieties of swede turnips grown by Mi Joseph Smith at Stirling Otago. Twenty eight. varieties of yellow and white fleshed turnips from Mr. Ji. Houlihan' farm at Kakapuaka (close to Balolutha are Shown. On the North Island side of the stal there aro peas which were grown wit tho idea of gettiu? a report upon thei • ns to their suitability for export to th English market. The reports have bee very favourable. Some of tho sample nre paid to be equal to any seen in th Dominion. There aro swedes, which wer all sown on the samo date on groiui ploughed at different times—some o (round ploughed early and some on groun ploughed late in the season. Tho swede grown on tho early-ploughed land ar miich bigger and better shaped. Thei are a good many wheats and barlej which have been introduced from Swcdei Last year was tho first season in whic they were grown in New Zealand. Oal nro also shown, and maizes which hai been obtained from America. Seed froi them ha.s boon'sown-for tho first time i New Zealand. Oirrnts, long red an globe maitKcls, and Up-to-date potatoi urown on tho pum lands of North And lnml arc a very interesting portion < the exhibit. Stack ensilage from Pahii

' tun, and lucerne from Feilding arc given, us a place-. From the experimental plots .j near tho Jlavtan railway station are a good'many samples', of oats and wheatf. On one''of tho walls a few of the varicv- ties of grain grown in the. South Island it in tho co-operative field experiments arc „! displayed. Iu these trials varieties of ;, wheat and oats have been grown to see 1(1 which are the most suitable for tho difij- ferent localities and tho different soils, e- Thero are six. varieties of wheat grown a, by Mr. JR. Hammond, of To Moa.na,. near . v Geraldine, in South Canterbury. The '? varieties aip Pearl, Solid Straw Tuscan, "' Denoe, Bordier, Hod Chaff, and Red Marre vcl. Bordier and Denoe were introducis ed to tho Dominion by Professor Lowrie, rs formerly of Lincoln Collet-Canterbury. io It is now held that Border, which was n- praised by tho College, has-proved that in it shells out badly,in the wind. An ofii■n cer of the Department, states that tho so highest.price is not given for it for maro- kating purpose?. It is not in the same so favour as sorao of the older varieties in id tho Dominion. Denoe.shells badly. The is tickets show that, after a gale, Bordier ts yielded 13.37 bushels to the acre, and De;l- noe 15..6S bushels,, while Solid Straw Tush can (which will not shake out) yielded 31 id bushels, and Pearl 20. s. In the oat section there are. sev«n varieB- ties , from a test made, at Ashburton. Ala perian, which is much grown in the >y South Island on account of its rnst;'e resisting properties, is shown to bo nearts ly last in tho matter of the yields of •y both grain and chaff. Its grain yield was ii. 13.12-bushels -per acre. Triumph,, an it Anglicised French oat, introduced by the f. Government two years ago, did best, givt in? a heavier yield of grain (38.3r) and Id straw than any of the other-vaneiies-,n Black Excelsior, Banner, Bloek Tartar, •y Danish, and' Garton. Besides its 36.37 tg bushels of grain, Triumph gave 2.<3 tons re of chaff to the acre.' • . it From another Geraldine experiment rs come six varieties of wheat grown by Mr. Kenneth M'Kenzie. Denoe here yielded 16 7G bushols' per acre, Bordier 30.16, Solid Straw Tuscan 42.16, Pearl 41.46, and .„ Violet Chaff '12. ' ' l In another portion of the building are i duplicate samples of wheat, oats, barley, rye tares, peas, beans, linseed, grasses, 16 and clover (numbering 110), of what aro n" now being shown in the.lmperial Exhibition in London and in the Roubaix Lx--111 hibition in the North of France. Else- ""■ where is. \i. duplicate nf the gram in ear. r " rent to London and Eoubaix. consisting c j of wheat, oats, and barley. The highest ld yield of wheat is GS bushels, oats 121, and c " barley 63. These are from all parts of "J the South Island.' _ >' An exhibition from .the Euakura Ex- "' .periment Farm consists of whsat, oats, " barley,' spelt,' emmer, and lucerne. iy "* : _^