THE SHOW SEASON.
This is the season of fat sheep and prime heifers in New Zealand. Tlie bucolics are abroad. They are endeavouring to wxeßt the laurels from eacK other and to win the Coyeted championships. Some people argue
that we ar© over-doin;j; the show 'msinoss, and that the gatherings arc developing into large cireus-rings an. social re-unions. W'e cannot agree on this'point. The agric ult'ira! show brings stock an<l produce, as well as pooplo, together. h is ;i form of education as well a* social re-union. it widens the outlook, encourages travel, creates a healthy spirit of rivalry, and tends to increase tlio proiluctivity of the soil. Wo should like, to one 'or two superior .shows in the Dominion, when the best .of all stock would be brought into competition ; but this must not bo brought about at t.ho sacrifice of minor shows, which hive sucli | nil important influence noon the small ler district brooders and their flocks I and herds.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10718, 31 October 1912, Page 4
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162THE SHOW SEASON. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10718, 31 October 1912, Page 4
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