The Taihape Daily Times TUESDAY, JULY 20, 1915. A. AND P. WINTER SHOW.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 260, 20 July 1915, Page 4

The Taihape Daily Times

TUESDAY, JULY 20, 1915. A. AND P. WINTER SHOW.

AND WAIMABIST® ADVOCATE.

(With which ia incorporated The Taihape Post una Waimarino Newo.)

Th e Winter Show of the Agricul- i tural and Pastoral Association of this i district will open in Taihapc to-mor-row and be continued on Thursday. It may be said to the credit and enterprise of the Committee, who have had the organisation of this exceedingly useful function, that they have laboured to make the coming exhibition all it should be from an educational point of view, and although it cannot be precisely similar to a summer show, it will not b e short of interesting features that it is of importance every man on the land should study. A winter show is largely a small farmer’s affair, though there ar e classes in which it is hoped sheepfarmers with large areas will not fail to exhibit, so as, to give all the benefit of what they have found to be particularly suitable to our soil and climate. A paddock of turnips will have cost as much for seed and for labour as another and, bven. under conditions as equal as it.is possible to make them, oag will return, a. 25 per cent, crop better than the ottter. Of course every' f farmer knows this, but these winter 1 shows are belli so that the man who has been-fortunate enough, to: drop up* cki something', that will produce 'the , ci’op in our soil and climate, to p«p^"alo?C' v ith his samples .and let a.I! hrthe territory know ' of U, so that next whiter such produce '-*.*7 gsv© Cuv..district a 25 per cent. I ■ 1 • ” . I’mr the rhiwo of

our land will be assessed from what 13 taken off it, and the only way we have of letting the general public know what w e can produce; the only really genuinie, fjorcteful widespread advertisement we can giv e our products is to show them at these exhibitions, so that results may b e reported and the facts broadcasted. This is admittedly the world over the most effective and th e - most rapid road to the increase of land values. Every farmer should really go out of hs way, should be willing to suffer some inconvenience to support and attend thes e shows, which, when all is said, are merely opportunities for advertising the district's capabilities. Nations spend enormous sums of money in organising shows of an international character, but the show of first importance to any district is admittedly its local gathering, where the maximum results ■ are obtainable with a minimum of trouble. It is earnestly hoped that all our farmers will remember that their Winter Show opens to-morrow, and that they have th e making or the marring of it in their hands. A Winter Show is the occasion for th e women of the farm to have ■their annual field-day. That section, or those sections of farm work that come more directly under their management or supervision, are seasonable. Everything pertaining to the dairy, home products, poultry and such like provide something that mere man is more than casually interested in. The dairy always furnishes exhibits; that one can admire, home products—such as jams, preserves of all kinds —something to ponder over, and the poultry can always be depended upon now-a-days to furnish things of exceeding beauty as well.as of greatest utility. We don't trouble ourselves in these utilitarian times whether a brahmaputra, or a cochin-china should have a longer feather on its left toe than it has on its right, the one great desideratum now is eggs, eSSS all the time, with a sensible demand for as perfect anatomy, or physical structure as we can manage to attain, and in this ther e is nothing wanting. If anything, show pons present more charming studies to-day than they did twenty years ago, and they have an added advantage when w e are assured| that the birds cam e from stock that laid over three hundred eggs a year in an egg-laying competition Finally, we have to bear in mind that the poultry industry is on th e verge of becoming one of considerable importance to th e whole Dominion. The export of qggs is no longer in an experimental stage; thej climate of New Zealand is particularly suitable for poultry raisin?, and, as settlement becomes more dense, it is an industry that bids fair to/claim considerable attention. The day should be passed when people bother themselves with the bird that lays only on e .-hundred days out of the 3fear, because it costs more to keep such things than j their eggs ar P worth. Th e community owes a big debt to poultry farmers and enthusiasts who hav e crossed and selected tim e after time, year after year, until they have fixed egg-laying characteristics in their birds which can be depended upon, who have verily metamorphosed the ordinary larfng hen into a veritable egg-machine. It is this class of bird, that lacks nothing in plumage, that everybody should go to th e Winter Show to see, and, if they ar e still running the old unprofitable sort, to buy. Everything that is possible to make the show attractive has been accomplished by a hard-working and an enthusiastic committee, it remains now for the general public to show its appreciation, for in functions of this kind it is everyone's privilege to show something.'