Spotlight on breed

Press, Volume CXII, Issue 32886, 8 April 1972, Page 14

Spotlight on breed

Next week is Angus week—a week that is being observed throughout the country to focus attention on the country’s most numerous beef cattle breed.

In the car parks of a series of New World supermarkets in Christchurch and Rangiora, at times specified in the accompanying programme for the week, two cattle beasts will be exposed for two-hour periods in a weight estimating competition. Contestants in the competition will be asked to answer a few simple questions on a questionnaire. One will be to estimate the total weight of . the two live animals. They will also be asked why they think that Angus beef is best. The first prize for the competition will be a side of Angus beef, the second a hindquarter and the third a forequarter. These are being donated by Borthwicks and with each prize will also go a case of Angus ale supplied by Fletcher Humphreys and Company, Ltd. These prizes will be presented at the supermarket, where they were won, next Friday afternoon. For those who produce Angus cattle and beef there will be a field afternoon at the Te Mania stud of Mr F. F. Wilding at Conway

Flat on Monday afternoon at 1 pm. Attention will also be drawn to the breed at calf sales at Methven on Monday and Coalgate next Friday when Imperial Chemical Industries will donate drench to be given to the purchasers of the top priced pens of at least 15 purebred Angus calves at each sale. At each of the calf sales and also at Addington market next week brochures about the breed will be available. There will also be a programme of similar activities in South Canterbury. In the week after Angus week the New Zealand Angus Association’s annual tour for breeders will begin on April 17. This year it will be in Taranaki and the King Country. Last year it was to the West Coast and Canterbury. The same day the Canter-bury-Westland Angus Association will take bulls in for its second performance trial, which this year will be located on a property in the Carew district, which will also be the scene of a Hereford trial.