A VISIT TO SCOTLAND.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1564, 7 October 1912, Page 8

A VISIT TO SCOTLAND.

IMPRESSIONS OP A XEW ZEALAND FARMER. (Bj TeleEtapli.~Bi'6cial Correspondent.) Christchurch, October 5. Mr. Kenneth M'lntcsh, of Kaiapoi, who 'left Canterbury early in April lor Septland, and has just returned to the Dominion, told a 'Tress" reporter that around uiasgow and 1-aisiey lie visited nu tlie leaning Clydesdale studmasters' establishments, .and was shown, many of the finest Clydesdales, hacikneys, and cattle, bred north of the Tweed, lie explained that the term "studniastter" 'does not mean the. actual breeder, lie may let cut each season one or two hundred stallions to small farmers, and after lha mares foal tho studinaster purchases the best of them, according- to his judgment, and they are transferred as yearlings np to two-year-old's to his stables and fields. From there the Canadian, Australian, South American, and Xew Zealand buyers, are able to make a selection of the picked horses" of the country. Last season there was a very large export of Clydesdale sires, many going to Canada iirparticubr. As to the breeding of Clydesdales, it was certainly imposing, and for v scme time the conditions had been favourable to the enterprise in Scotland, which is the nur=e".y for the world in that re.spect. Among the leading horses, he saw ■ the sire T'-ron's Pride and other prominent hoi> which are as well known by name among Clydesdale men as that of Carbine amongst sportsmen generally. . /The Royal Show at Doncastcr in the early days of July was shorn of its great attractions in cattle, sheep, and pigs owing, to the outbreak of foot and mouth dis-, ease in an Irish shipment. There was a great sho;r of Shire horses, Snffolks and •iliackneys. Speaking of the Shire horse*, jie had no desire to criticise, but it was :'.clear that the Clydesdale was working its V>yny southward -in England, while it was .'evident that the Shires were not going Torth. Xot only at Doncastcr,. but at 'other shows, he was impressed with the • display of grain produce, etc., from the but was quite disappointI'.edrat the absence of any indication that I.New Zealand had a.place on the.map. To (hundreds of thousands a display by this •Dominion.would, have proved that if we "had the money to pay for a Dreadnought wc' ; had w-bol,. grain, mutton, and other [products,-and a country in. which the in'dustrious surplus population of En gland— ",'pehple who were, used to farming, ond {wanted to.-better their condition—could •_%iigrats to with advantage. A week after the. Doncaster Royal Show the large exhibits of the Commonwealth referral to •were the centre of attraction at. the Highland.Society's show at Cupar, Fife, where 'there was an immense attendance. This .largely included the agricultural employees 'who cot the show holiday, and who crowded all day long at the Australian exhibition and eaVerly sought information as to the possibilities of that country. The .draught horse -classes usually had about 20 entries, find the two and Hirce-veaT-old? '.were wonderfully good. Tho hackneys 'for style and' form were siwrl:. There jvns also a splendid displav in English and '■Border Leicester sheep. While the imuleTiients were sliowv, the practical manufacturers of Xew Zealand could no; leom !much, and in England and Scotland the systems of tillace were still behind the times, Jfr.jJt'lrHosh instancing, the fact that single ploughs were kept on many Irrg" farms, and the disc harrow where it would be invaluable was unknown.

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