PALMERSTON NORTH SHOW

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 14, 11 October 1917, Page 8

PALMERSTON NORTH SHOW

This important event is hastening on, and contemplating competitors and exhibitors aro acain reminded that entries for all' live stock and competitions Mβ due io close at the office on Saturday next This also covers Manaiwatu Jteilnel Club entries, for which a separate schedule should be asked. Preparations for the show are well advanced, tho crounds being in excellent heartr Applications for space aie said to be more numerous than ever. There will be many interesting things on exhibition, notwithstanding the stringent l™'Wa°«M" cargo space. Those desirig schedules can have them free on application to the secretary, box 85, Palmerston North.

Short trips into the country to tho south of Dunedin reveal unpromising prospects this spring. Largo areas of the laien are submerged or sodden; Inch Clutha w swampy.'But men who know Otago as a viole report most hopefully, 'J. hey eay tfiat there has not been such a good season for farmers for many years. Plentiful rains have fertilised, districts that usually are too dry, and there have not been die cold winds that often prevail at ttis time of the year. The grass is comine no at a great rate, and the cereal cropsat. looking -well. At Hawea there is wheat a foot high and looking wel . The weather has been just what was wanted in most districts for breaking up the ground for tut-nips. The sowing ot this Irop may be a little delayed Lere and thSre, but there is plenty of time, tor turnips can be put in up to the middle oi DeeeZiufer.