TARANAKI HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81831, 25 August 1906, Page 2

TARANAKI HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.

There was a foil attendance at meeting of the Taranaki Agriculture Society's oil Friday evening, M r[. Okcy (vice-president) in tli chair. Messrs (). W, Sole, E.* Sole and N. B.'wley were elected members and Messrs 0. W. Sole and W. A Catliro elected to the committee. I was decided to affiliate with the Ne\ Zealand Kennel Club, aud the Mima will u classes for dog* will be adopted It was decided to ask the Departmen of Agriculture to analyse free of cos twelve samples of soil sent from variou parts of north Taramln. The seere tary was instructed to write to all fac tories in the Taranaki, Egniont, Cliftor, Stratford, aud Hawera counties, askin for their support in contributing prize money in a new class in the comprti tion for best export butter. A nei class was inserted in the dairying divi sion for cow or heifer, under four years by pedigree sire, and in sheep a ful class for Sonthdowns was added, and i class for ewe under 18-montlis will b < allotted to all the different breeds. I: : pigs, a full class for White Chesters wit ■ inserted and other slight improvement: i made in the schedule of the pig section, 1 The society is evidently striving hard ' to bring the schedule right up-to-date.