SOME GIANT FAT BEASTS

Otaki Mail, 31 January 1923, Page 3

SOME GIANT FAT BEASTS

i;i lIM INGHAM ( AITLIi .SHOW. tine nt the chief features of liirni- j u. - linin’- seventieth annual Pat Stock Show at Bingley Hall was the second .Humph ol Bine Bill, the bfrriunhillydnished _ blue-grey crossbred steer wiii'h wng the Norwich blue ribandlor, r filc-liard Cooper ft week previously. OVEK A TUN. Tin- ciiau-ij, ion’s weight- was ISCtvt >p- tvlli. hut he wSs small compared with some of Hie animals ill the bllf- : Tiers' classes, and those entered for die '-up fur die. heaviest boast in tnS ■ liou. wiforeiu weight and nothing ei.-c counts. This cup was gained by a '"ur-ycars-old roau named Rainbow. tbo\ ii iiy Mr Samuel Bctichdl, of Bes-fwi-i. Hull, Beverley. Yorkshire, which 1 ton tsewt Sib. Another giant, a Devon named Jumpo, .-f-nt by Mr H. G. Hodges, of tue Manor, Long Marston, Stratford-. on -Avon. weighed only a lew pounds less, while I -My t emhyn showed a. fthorihorn scaling loan a ton.' In all eight nnirrmU exceed,m lScwt. I ihe King's tlnm exhibits—two Hereford:; and a Rhoi thrun—although ! of great merit, weie not good enough for the. prize list. j Warwickshire farmers sent many line representatives of the picturesque Longhorn breed, with their great span of liorns frequently exceeding Aft. In tHe cow class of this breed the tin* prize wninei' was only a month shCrt of 'eight years, which eeents old for a beef animal. Although the sheep were few. their 'quality, especially that of the- fat iambs, was exceptional. The thi'eecbatripicn lambs, Hampshire povms. ?fere again Major Morrison's, ana weight at il monfhs was well over ?v quarter of -a, ton. Their elosje'rvfc competitors were, Mrs W. F. Inge’s '(Tajmvorth) pen of Shropshires, scaljfig over tewt at eight months.