AGRICULTURAL AND PASTORAL NEWS
Information has been received by diesecretary of the Otago A. and P. Society that the Border Leicester Sheep-breeders* Society, Scotland, purposes donating a gold medal to be offered at the summer show in November, to the exhibitor who gains the highest total points in three years in. the Border Leicester breed of rfheep, and. further, that on the fourth year fhe medal will again bo renewed by the society oh thesame conditions as above, the Scottish society reserving the right to withdraw or alter the conditions. This generous offer will doubtless increase the Interest taken: in the coming show In the preface to the new "BtfHettn on Bee Culture " issued by the Agricultural Department, Mr Hopkins, the well-knowrt apiarist, observes that the economic import* ance of commercial bee-farming is now unw versally recognised, Bad nowhere, has this been more fully demonstrated than in the United States of America, where, accord-
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Otago Witness, Issue 2896, 15 September 1909, Page 6
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154AGRICULTURAL AND PASTORAL NEWS Otago Witness, Issue 2896, 15 September 1909, Page 6
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