A GREAT NATIONAL SHOW

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 90, 10 January 1919, Page 8

A GREAT NATIONAL SHOW

; 'ONE THOUSAND SHORTHORN ' ; BULLS/ . :..:'-'■ .

' ';''-'a'h9-extensive lines on" which the. big i , •(took.Vehov.-s at Buenos. Aires: are con- "'■ •ducted, have attracted some attentionin ':'•■ -Saw -Zealand. According.-to an English 'i paper ''the 1918 exhibition■;of; tho Rural. I'V. Society, Argentina, will long i ---e'd by tho executive, exhibitors and estan- ( ■' cierbs as the most successful ever ,hold:in. ' that very progressive and properous ngri- ' cultural country, where live stock, breed- ! . ihg nnd finishing dominates all other 'r- dustries'in magnitude and value. ■•-■•.• l I "I,; Of;the -show, the .paper says:-. Short- ,; horns, now as' ever, have always held ■ 'Vide of place at Palermo Shotv by vir- !■ tue -■■ of' numbers, they occupying more. i "than half the catalogue, with an entry-of ! 'over.twelve hundred out ot a full total i 'of just nineteen hundred,. and a total p value simply colossal. • The sales .alone I•'■'. aggregated,all'round a quarter of ami - I-' lion Sterling. ■• The\ Herefords,- all. told, i were only one. hundred and thirty strong, !' and Aberdeen-Angus had exactly, ninety I 'entrants. By the way, is there not plenty V of scope for the Hereford Society lnlmg-. ! land to spend some' of their fiuge reserve i on-propaganda'in Argentina, and lurtlier i to infuse more interest m the breed by '<■ altering thoir present antiquated; perpet- '. 'imr-re-election-rule-.of men of a bygone i V'eVe -and consequently neither breeders nor, enthusiasts, and elect at least/ a, proportion of successful breeders to their I board?",To return,-'Jiowever, to the red, |: white,'and roans, it,may truthfully..be ■■•' claimed that at' the present show there ! wasibrgattered close ona thousand pure ■ rtSaiWeed Shorthornbulls, which for genI ' «fal u iiverage;of qualit}-, type and-weight ';. "S'te-!never in ; the history of the breed l\ : oW'eValled.-' Certainly it is a record !' for Palermo, and a living demonstrated 'tSbSfe to: Great Britain and Ireland I- Wh'oso-!breeders have been rcsponsiblelor I: ''theVfftundation and constant replemsli- ! : ine'nVof Argentina herds, and-hare made T it'bo'ssible for estancieros to exhibit tie ! fifiest collection-of Shorthorns in 1916 the ' w6ri'd' : has ever seen at one' and'the same '"'■■-Mie/to!Judging commenced before- what 1 , the B.A. papere.described as the, greatest I:-; crowd 'ever' forgathered,round the ShortV horn ring.' - ; . '