NATIONAL DAIRY SHOW 1916

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2771, 15 May 1916, Page 8

NATIONAL DAIRY SHOW 1916

Headers will be interested to learn that arrangements have b ecu made to hold tho annual football matches between, tho Wangauui and To Auto. (Native) College teams. • As is usual, the matches will bo pln?ed on Wednesday, June 21, the second day of the show. Tuesday, 20th, is 6tt aside for school sports, Thursday, 22nd, for hunters' competitions and hounds display, and Friday, 23rd, pony leaping. The inside exhibition needs no comment, as its features arc so well known. Suffice it to say that tho coming event is not to lag behind its brilliant predecessors. Tho Manawatu poultry Association's Show it also adding to its already strong prestige,' and a record display is anticipated. Entries close on June 3. Schedules and all information from tho secretary, Mr; W. T. Penny, Box 85,' Palmerston North.

A dairy farmer in tho Waima'te district gives it as his opinion that the sharemilkers just now have the best end of tho stick. They are, he states, getting two-fifths of tho milk returns, Bs. in tho £. Consider, he adds, the case of a man paying JE7O an aero for his land, and you will see at once that the sharcmilker is on the best wicket—Waimate "Witness."

Pastoralists in tho Cromwell district have experienced an ideal autumn season (says a correspondent). Since the period of dry weather broke, early in April, the rainfall has been much above the average, and the result is that pastoral country .is in good order. Already several snowstorms have swept over the high country, and some fairly hard frosts also have prevailed. Several storms were experienced last week, the heaviest being on' Saturday evening, when there was a heavy rainfall in all-parts of the district.

At the Adttington metropolitan market Dn Wednesday (says tho "Lyttelton Times"), Mr. Thomas Dowling, of Springfield, Methven, established a record that will bo hard to beat, obtaining the highest prices for fat bullocks, fat cows, fat wethers, fat ewes, fat merino wethers, fat lambs and vealers, whilst be missed the top prices in baconers by 3s. only. The stock which were offered were a credit.to,their owner.. On numerous pre r yious. occasions Mr. Dowling has topped the metropolitan: market, but on Wednesday lie achieved a record in tho number of classes in which, he outdistanced all comers. The stock sold on .Mr. Dowling's account were:—Cattle—l. steer at £W, 1 steer at ,£lB 17s. 6d., 1 'cow at .El 7 155.; vealers, 1 at £6, lat ,£2los. Sheep— 7 ewes at 395.,' Lewes at 38s. 6d„ i wethers at 13s. 6d., i wethers at 475. Gd., 8 wethers at 335. Cd., 7. Down wethers at 355. 6d., 22 cross-bred wethers at 3is. Gd., 15 cross-bred wethers at 295. Gd., 10 merino wethers at 255., 15 merino .wethers at 20s.- 9d., 15 merino wethers at 205.; lambs, j6 at 315., 2 at- 355., 10 at 276'. 6d., i at 305., 13 at 265. lOd. baconers at 905., 7 baconers at 835., i baconers at 7As. Gd., at 675., and 3 baconers at-GGs. . '*