£577 For a Pig.

Hokitika Guardian, 31 August 1922, Page 3

£577 For a Pig.

CAMBRIDGE, July 6. A crowd exceeding 20,000, chiefly farers and country people, reached the Royal Show at Cambridge quite ear] this morning. Thousands never get much further than the maze of machinery avenues, which gave their liberal education in modern processes of husbandry with great and diverse clamour. Thousands more went straight to the vast stockard and, spending the day there, declared they needed a week to see it properly. The many different breeds of sheep for mane of the. big attractions of the show, and never were sheep more perfectl turned out for the judging ring. The 1,164 pigs also are a very popular display, and the Wessex Saddlebacks especiall havo been admired. The long tasks of judging is over. Yesterday the sheep judges, in thenlong white coats, were “noddled up” like “Diggory Venn” through handling pigmented sheep. To-day all the officials appeared in morning dress for the time-honoured annual showynrd meeting of the Society, at which the greybeards of British agriculture met under tha presidency of the Duke of York. This was the Duke’s official visit to the show. SHORTHORN SALES.

The Duke congratulated the owners of livestock on their wonderful dis- i play. After lunch he visited some ot j the principal exhibits and then watch- . ed the jumping contest in the great j horse ring. In this arena the hunter , riding class# were judged to-day and | first prizes werci won by Air Ken-, noth Stevenson’s (Malvern Wells) , Best Man, Mr B. Giles Bishop’s (Winslow) Brandy, and Sir A. Cory : Wright’s (Welwyn) Clark Marquis, j The children’s riding class resulted m . the premier award going to Miss Mary , Putnam’s (Exeter) Pony Playful, I while Lady Penrhyn’s Blue Rock won : in the class for animals of 14 to Id \ hands. . ! The Thornton Challenge Cup lor the i best three cows or heifers of the British Friesian breed has been awarded to the group shown by Mr 0. T. Eaton of From field, Sussex. At the auction sales this morning there was a keen demand for some of the best of the Shorthorns. The top price was £892 10s for Air George Will’s (Langford, Bristol) bull Bickford ‘'Exciseman, bought to go to the Argentine. The Prince of Wales’s hull, King’s Messenger, sold for £220 10s. Twenty-eight Shorthorn bulls averaged CLIG 12s Id, and 13 females Clo 4 10s 3d each, while 10 Dairy Shorthorn hulls averaged £l4l 15s each. j Some big prices were paid for pigs, 1 the highest being £577 10s for Ah (>lover’s (Cornwood, Devon) champion Large Black boar, Cornwood Someday. Other prices for Large Blacks ranged from £lB4 10s to £3BB 10s. The top sum realised for a Gloucester Old Spots boar was £157 10s, and for a Berkshire hoar £54 12s, the King he- , ing the buyer of the latter from Ah- . Tames Ismay. WONDERFUL FLOWERS. Experts describe the horticultural exhibit as the finest ever staged away from London. Approached through glowing beds of carnations planted in the open by Mr 0. Engelmann. of Saffron Walden, and a plantation of standard gooseberries and currants and espalier fruit trees by Air l.axton, of Bedford, the 300-feet long marquee, holds great splendour of roses, sweet and pot-fruit trees. But there are choice greenhouse and stove plants in sumptuous profusion also, and with these and orchids, one of which is like a swarm of golden moths just taken wing, Afr Cypher, of Cheltenham, leads.