OTAGO WINTER SHOW.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1463, 11 June 1912, Page 8

OTAGO WINTER SHOW.

TAKINGS TOTAL .£1317. The total takings at the Otago A. and P. Association Winter Show this yeav amounted to =£1317 15s. ad., as against .SI'JU 19s. (id. for the corresponding four days of last yours show, and .£I:|!I9 lis. for the fivo'days last ye-ar. Taking last year's five days' show into consideration, tlio four clay.s this year only show a falling away of .£ll 15s. 9d. The detailed receipts are as under:— 1911. 1912. •£ s. tl. f. H. First day 107 10 0 167 S 0 Second day "(i!) IS (l 424 9 fl Third day 35S 81l 4'i9 3(1 Fourth day ;il9 3li 32G 14 B Fifth flay IG4 li' G — Totals 1,370 11 0 1,3 d" 1"> .1 DISEASED CATTLE. BRANDING CULL COWS ADVOCATED. At the annual meeting of the South Island Dairy Association last week the following motions were moved by the Toi Toi and Kdendule factories respectively: "That the Dairy Association requests the ■ Government Dairy Department to bring in legislation making it compulsory to deal with sterility, abortion, and contagious mammitis in dairy herds;" and "That the Dairy Department be mpie.-t----eil to frame a regulation which will prevent culls from dairy herds being sold as 'dairy cows'."

Mr. 0. -J. Keakes, chief of the live stock anil veterinary division of the Department of .Agriculture, who spoke at some length on the motions, said it would lie a good .tiling for the country if more control could bo exercised over those particular diseases. Any control he exercised would be as little as possible of the nature of police control. AYherc at one timo they had 20 cows with abortion now they had only one, and nianimitis also was verymuch less common now. lie was of opinion that, t.liey had sufficient machinery to deal with this matter without passing any. further legislation, but it would be necessary to have these partioular diseases scheduled in the Act. He promised to go into "the matter very carefully with the aid of his officers, and see if they could not bring out some practical working scheme that would meet their views.

In the subsequent .discussion sneakers advocated the branding of all cull cons, (he giving of a written guarantee with con's sold, and the speying of affected cows.

In replying, Mr. lieakos pointed out that anything of this nature that was to be done would have to be practically universal throughout the country. He favoured the sptying of cattle.-' The motions were carried together, on the voices.