Agricultural Allows.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XL, Issue 7923, 4 October 1904, Page 3

Agricultural Allows.

Apropos of the necessity for the settlers of the district to enter heart and soul into the work of assisting the Manawatu A. and P. Society, the following remarks of a speaker at an Agricultural Show in America are in teresting. He said:—» THis is a great exposition... It ought to be much greater, lhere are hundreds of men looking round the pens to-day for something they couldn't find. What was it? It was their neighbours' cattle and sheep. Some of these searchers couldn't find their own stock. Why? Because they had forgotten to enter it. Just that. Oh, yes ■ I've heard all the excuses before: Too busy. Nothing good enough to enter. ±iad trouble in arranging for transport. .Reckoned a small man like me would neyer be missed, And such-like shuffles. There's nothing to come and go on in any one of them, but the worst, the meanest, the poorest of them all is miserable confessioo of hard-up incompetence. I've nothing good enough' to enter 1' Is thero any gentleman present willing to stand up andtell you that he runs a farm and that he hasn't anything good enough to enter ? If there is I'll sit down and let you look long and earnestly at a gentleman who ought to change his name to Hoaest Incapacity. I don't expect to find a pedigree bull or a purebred cow or a champion ram on every farm, any more than I want to see theee top nofcchers filling all the show pens. But I.do expect to find utility stock of some sort on every farm, ana the man that hasn t raised something he's proud of, even if it is only a pumpkin, ought to go right out of the business Bivery farmer worthy of the name ought to be able to send something somebody else would be interested in seeing—something that will help, if only in a small way, to build up a grand, inspiring, and instructive Bpectacle, suoh as will have an educational value for himself, for his fellow farmers, and for that large non-farming seotion of the community, the citizens, who by their patronage help to make the exposition posßible."