King Country Chronicle Wednesday, June 7, 1911. THE A. & P. ASSOCIATION.

King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 367, 7 June 1911, Page 4

King Country Chronicle Wednesday, June 7, 1911. THE A. & P. ASSOCIATION.

The exceedingly creditable response that has been given by Te Kuitians to the request for donations to the special prize fund of the King Country Central A. and P. Association is a happpy augury of the success of the first show to be held early next year. Some £l5O has so far been promised, and when the canvass has been extended to the various centres in the King Country and Waikato and to Auckland city, there should be a very large and imposing prize fund to encourage and stimulate competition and awaken interest. Settlers throughout the King Country are invited to join the Association and the farming community generally should need no urging to support the new body to the fullest extent of their powers. In doing this they will be encouraging a strong Association from the start, and their example will stimulate outside competition with exhibits of stud stock and dairy cattle and horses. We hope to see the first show really representative of what the King Country is doing in raising fat cattle, horses and sheep. There is no finer land in New Zealand for these purposes, and some of our live stock products are calculated to open the eyes of outsiders not familiar with the country and its capabilities. The show will do good service if it induces outside breeders to show their dairy cattle and stud sheep. In Waikato some of the very finest dairy herds are assembled, and if a number of the more noted breeders can be induced to send exhibits, the value of a personal inspection of what a model dairy cow should be will be of inestimable benefit to those in the King Country who are now developing this very promising industry. Stud sheep, again, will probably come from the Wairarapa and other districts, and breeders in the King Country will have the oppor- • tunity of seeing them and noting the influence of'careful selection carried^

on through generations on these animals. The home industries exhibits, under the management of a strong committee of ladies, also promise to be an interesting section of the show. The fieid of choice is a wide one, and exhibitors will have great latitude in deciding what particular branch of household or domestic industry they will be represented in. It is understood that the schedule of classes and prizes will be issued by the Association early in August, and this should give ample time for rearing live stock and preparing other exhibits for the show to be held about March next.