WAIKATO AGRICULTURAL AND PASTORAL ASSOCIATION.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 663, 19 August 1876, Page 3

WAIKATO AGRICULTURAL AND PASTORAL ASSOCIATION.

Fin.— l notice in the above Seciety's propr.Mnwo for their ertuina Bhow, it i« inttv(h(\ to award prizes for '<Jrad» sire animal*,'— wliicli I t«7 much re*r«t. Ur<edir>g from gr*He tires hat hem the cuu-e of our ca<tle i» thii prorince getting lower and lower in the sc>il» of excellence, »rd will continue to do »o if not checked mid protided for by inch Societies m the Waiknfo Agricultural and Pastoral. It i* not itMeraary h"' B f° r mf » to "° into tlie meritu of th« good deriTed from breeding from pure bred sirss, because it u n f,mt. and »>nnot be controdicte'l. More-i-Ter, I tli nk it «nuar b» titr.ply »n orerPit'kt of the Bocie» j iD drafting their pnntrr't copy. Good aob»t*rti»l pnzca ■hoald bt> awarded for pore-bred *hort),oi n, mid Hertford bulta, but none others, — find the nm« to pure brad Ix>ic' «k«r and Lincoln rams 4 bnt no prizes should be awarded to long-woolled r*ms (which in all caws should ba made into wethers.) Gitb os many prizes m you like for other femaje progeny, bolh in cattle and sheep. Enooph inferior bulls nnd ram« will be bred without the Society holding out ljrennuma to perpetuat* the »?e of half • bred fire scrubbers. The province ii alroady inundated with a otofmyerabla bulls nnd rams, and w# are tuffeving fro<n tlm »vil in eTary way. I troat'to ate th« Wiukuto Agricultural an<kPa«»oral 80c , f tv take a, leading position in our midst •which will be mat r'ajly helped on by their adopting the proptr and only recogn , P pd elantiflcation of cattls for dtfle Bhow rrize awardt T im quite aware tliot heretofore we Jia»« I een ohlijf«3 to "ivc I Pi!" «• '*' c riovmcml Anniml yhf we for Grade Much, smiply beciiuse ye

have had no competition m purti-t.r rt Ani'i'iU— being n joung country mill th> animals not here .Now it n olff-reuL ; t l i ro iitj sufficient pure-bred male atul fema'e s ook txith in bhort-l'omi, Herefo d-), LeiCv-aters aod Lmcolus lor «tml |>uipxes to supply moro th»n (lie wan » ol Clua province. — I ntn, &c, Cisci.v.NAfUd. August 15ili, IS7G.