THE WINTER SHOW.

Taranaki Daily News, 14 June 1918, Page 4

THE WINTER SHOW.

.It must be gratifying to the president and members of the Taranaki Agricultural Society to hear tiio very flattering comments made concerning the excellence of the Winter Show that is now being held in the Coronation Hall, New Plymouth. Beyond all question, this Show is superior in quality and quantity to any of its predecessors, and the experience gained by the executive has borne good fruit, the general arrangements reflecting the progressive aim of tho Society. There is a far greater value in these exhibitions- than is goner- i ally recognised, especially in view of the present urgent need for producing the \ utmost possible from the land. In this ; dircotion .Agricultural Societies can be of very greait service to the Dominion toy encouraging intensive cultivation on sound, sciemtiific, and practical lines. It will be seen on a visit to the Show that the Society is encouraging not only the farmers, brat their children, to obtain the best- returns from the land, and the scries of lectures at the Good Templar Hall to-day is another step towards this desirable end. Taranaki is particularly a diairy district, and the exhibition of butter and cheese is well worthy of the province. It is well recognised that the !>est yields from the highest milting strains oan only be expected as the result of judicious selection and feeding, for however good as a butter-fat producer a cow may be, without proper food tho year round the best results will not be obltained. The display of roots and other '■ fodder at the Show fe of such excellence that the evidence is conclusive as to the .suitability of tlce soil, under proper treatment, for growing croipß so that the dairymen should be stimulated to make this part of their business a spatial, situdy, in order to increase the output. Pig's, poultry, eggs. Jweflj and -homo indfcfstriesf *ll form jpart

of V.w work, and caeli lias a value (.f its uv.-ji. 'Die more food grown for the side lines, the more prosperous will the settlers become; hence the value >)i the "work, on the sue-ce.-irt ai' v.iikh. :i.; reju'estmled hy the prc.snit .Show, the executive may be heartily congratulated.