DUNEDIN CANARY AND POULTRY ASSOCIATION.

Evening Star, Issue 3605, 11 September 1874, Page 2

DUNEDIN CANARY AND POULTRY ASSOCIATION.

The second annual exhibition of the Association bearing the above title opened in the Brill-shed at the Octagon to-day. The interest taken in the object of the Assooi* ation was evinced by the fact that the exhibits required four tables ranged parallel to each other the full length of the abed, two cross tables lor dairy and farm-yard p odaoe at the higher end of the room, and pens contaming geese, ducks, rabbits, and fowls across the entrance. Ibe room was decorated neatly with flags and banners of all nations. We are not sufficient yac ( uaiqtcd with ihe merits of uncooked poultry to pronounce a dici ied judgment upon the show as a who e Our impression is that the best gallinaceous birds were not p.aced in competition, but were merely exhibited ; of that the judges were best able to say. This, at any rate, is true, the number of birds was very large ; they were all fine specimens of the particular breeds, and, taking them as a whole, it would be difficult to find a superior collection bird for bird in the world. There were splendid game, Dorking, Spanish, Cochin, Brahmapootra, duckwing, and other varieties of gallitiacae ; magnificent geese exceeding the average size, and splendid ducks approaching the weight of ordinary geese; great turkeys, and Brahmapootras weighing as much as a geod-sized turkey. One fine and very tame hen of that breed, not in the competition, weighed fourttea pounds in her leathers, and there was a portly looking chanticleer from the same fowl yard who was reported to weigh a pound more. s a branch of {arm yard economy the exhibition is suggestive. But not only is it important in that view of the matter, but as affording an opportunity of displaying the best of our dairy produce. I here were hams, butter, and bacon that would have done credit to auy part of the wo! Id. and which tended unmistakeably to show the fee ing capabilities of ihis part of Nev Zealand. Ihe singing birds, pigeons, parrots, and other talking birds were numerous, aid gave sundry specimens of what they could do in their own peculiar style, Their sweetest notes were, however, overpowered by the resonant crowing ef defiant roosters, who kept up a continuous round of r<nging cheers and choruses, that would have helped to create a Babel, had a band of music joined in with their mure measured strains. v\ edo not know, under the circumstances, that the absence of a baud was not au advantage to sensitive ears. His i Honor tub Superintendent, in formally opening the {show, congratulated committee on the great success which bad attended their efforts, and expressed a hope that the energ yexbibited by the society would have the effect of urnlug public attention more generally to this branch of domestic economy, which had hitherto mot with much neglect in this Province. vv e regret that we are unable to publish the prize list iu this evening’s issue, as it Was not made up sufficiently early.