WOMEN FARMERS

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 190, 28 August 1937, Page 16

WOMEN FARMERS

Sticcessful Exhibitors at English Shows , Two women farmers won ce,ttle';championahips at * the- opening of tho -I/eterborough Agricultural . Show." - Between tliem "they entered 10 " animals aild collecied 12 L awaids. ' iiady Eobinson/- 70,-year-old widow «f Kiikliiigton Hall,, Newark, vemphasised her recchtly "ghined position -.as leading breedhr' of Aberdeen-'Angus eattle in tlie counti-y ' bv winning her - own chllenge cup.- for * the most pomts • gained by, an exhibit'or in the show. _ She also woh a xoserve champio'nship, three firsts and a seeond' with two bulls, a eow- and a lioifer. L'ady Rob'i uson ' bcgan breeding * eattle ohly vseven years 'ago, cstablishing a herd' of " Abhrdeen-Angus' on- her 750 acre estate.' She bouglit her st'dck .bull, Prince Ben of Boghead, from a- sniall Aberdeenshire farme'r. It' cost hdr only £75.' The animal it^el'f won £300 in pifizes at' a'g'rieultu-ral shotvs, -'-and his pfogeny h'as colldcted m'ore than '£1000. Tlie other sue'c-essful womau was tall; well-built Miss Sylvia Brocklebanli, who farins 120 acres.at Oakham. Up to a . f ew years ago Miss Brocklebank's interest .was in . horses. : She was an ackhowledged' jiidge of ; hunters.- ; , Now she has turhed to*.;beef / Shorthorn eattle, is •prov.ing herself as good a judge of them "as; slie -.was, of -hbrses. She ' entered- 'six 'animals fo-da'y/ to win tho • brec'd championsli-ip and five*. other prizes. i- r'1