SYDNEY ROYAL SHOW.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 763, 11 March 1910, Page 10

SYDNEY ROYAL SHOW.

• •••,THIS YEAR'S ENTRIES. /_The New South Wales Rojal Agricultural . Societyf6 ~sho ivptesent'the. saiiie strong features as are • Wally. seen' at"sMoore'Park at faster.: ' It 'it t -first -of all, a livo stock exhibition, numbers of - horses: aid - . ca ™? '°® me fojward 'every-year' ■ for ediu- . Petition and sale./- -Ifcubtless. -.the ,? sale' side ..of the :.queiifioh Exercises": a ' very powerful ; influence on;the volume of entries; in horses,' cattie;;,aM. pigs.' It is a bad time, of .the year-t£>ell. stud sheep, and'while ;sheep are: noßriunlerous, .the . eefltion does notirapidljyndrifse.' For the coining sho\r the liorse ontricj, according to 'the '"Australasian;," ' itill amount' .'to about 1150, cattlo.to.abbut 1000,' Vnd sheep■ to' a little under;;2oo:"' There, has Been .W----remarkable inmasa. in' pigs' this' year. For' a 10-rig time Government institutions competed, and. the private breeders fell away before', the subsidised' competition. Then swino fever caused the faction to be struck out for '.three years- Since ; it .was resumed-four years-ago, the. numbers of exhibitors and pigs grew, gradually until about SO- pigs were sho'\rn in 1809. For the coming show the entries have jumped to; some 200, and' these .indude.several Jots from "Victoria. is.ot'rohgly' reprc- . tented in' the entries- for chorees,, cattle, sheep, pigs, poultry,' wi-nos, and.•machinery. New Zealand will scud considerable numbers of 'horses and cattle, South Australia .will send cattle,-horsca; poultry, and wines'; Queensland will be represented in " horses, dairy 'produce, 'and poultry. The' Australasian character of the exhibition- is'.indeed -becoming more strongly marked every : 3rear; both in respeelMo exhibits .'and'visitors. Easter is, of course, the.great holiday period of the year!'Syd- ! ney attracts people from many lends"- at that time, and >. very large' proportion is composed of those interested in agricultural and pastoral pursuits, whose natural .bent is towards the great'slloW. With a view of testing the Loudon narket for' Victorian nork And - bacon, the' Minister .for Agriculture has decided to forward six-of the carcases which were shown .in Melbourne at the -A.N.A. ?x----hibition to, the to ascertain what prices they will rcali.se. The remaining carcass will be cured and sent to Emdaml as ba'coni-with a similar objcct.