THE SYDNEY EXHIBITION.

Marlborough Daily Times, Volume I, Issue 85, 13 January 1880, Page 4

THE SYDNEY EXHIBITION.

The Agricultural Show in connection with the International Exhibition is, it is gratifying to state, creating interest in various parts of the colonies, and there are Sod prospects that the scheme prepared by r.G.S. Lang will be warmly taken up. We have already sketched out the objects intended by the forthcoming display. It is to bring the colony’s capabilities and resources, so far as agriculture is concerned more prominently before the world, and also to disseminate information amongst our agriculturists as to what has been done what is being done and what may be done, with the land. The importance of the forthcoming display cannot therefore be very well over estimated. At previous exhibitions we have had exhibits of ordinary products of the land such as wheat &c., but the show to be opened on the l&thFebru ary is to take a much wider range, and will bring together for comparison and instruction every article that the soil of these colonies can produce including native grasses, which by a misprint in the advertisement were referred to as native grapes. A large amount of experimental cultivation has been carried on in the colonieß, but the results in many instances have never been made known. The colony contains people of many nations, who have brought with them a variety of ideas, and a variety of methods of land cultivation; and some of them have no doubt experimented in the growth of fruits, plants, grasses, &c., peculiar to the country of their birth. What they have achieved in this respect will be of interest and instruction to others; and thus by a comparison of notes much information may be gleaned as to the capabilities of the soil in various parts of the colonies. This agricultural show will further commend itself to our agriculturists and others by the special opportunities it offers for displaying their productions to advantage. Complaints have been made that dairy produce and other exhibits .in the agricultural section of the Exhibition have not received the attention they deserved. But at what the Americans would doll a "side show,”—though a very important side show—all the exhibits pertaining to it will receive equal prominence. We must again refer those desirous of information on this matter to the . advertisement in another column, in which the Commission, through its secretary, Mr Augustus Morris, explains the objects of thej agricultural show, —Sydney Morning Herald.