OTAGO WINTER SHOW.

Evening Star, Issue 14636, 4 August 1911, Page 8

OTAGO WINTER SHOW.

i The attendance yostetday hardly reached ■ that of the third day last year, for iiwhv i of the r ruin try folk have gone home, but £358 8s was taken at, the doors, and the total so far exceeds that of the, three da\s for 1910 by £SO. Genera! Godley and his wife, accompanied by Colonel Smyth and Mrs Smyth. . wore yesterday piloted round the show by j Mr J." London, Mr A. S. Orbc.il, and the j Hon. T. Mackenzie. I People b.ivft been ru.-hincr Mr Arthur j Johnson for pieces of the monster cher=e. and it will all be gone this even ins. Xcxt year a bigger one will be wanted. Stock-breeders express the opinion tint?. in future years it would be good policy :<• I drop out the afi-aged cat Me classes and give, maro encouragement to the showing of young stock. Early maturity L- what we want, not beasts that have grown old and coarse. -A collection of about 20 <- f the best young stock procurable* would be. I ample, for to get 20 really rood one* about 2CO must be brad. ; To-day tho stock sales were gene on \ with, and fair prices were realif-cd : but j they varied very much, especially in shoe;.. a.= mi-'ht have been expected, considering i thf< want of uniformity. There is hardly a. j pen really level. One of the smart exhibits at this show is that ret up by Powley and Keast. Tim bottles, little and bit:, are arransed with an eye to pictorial effect, also the kegs and other trade articles, and the big moa. winch is the- firm's trade-mark,'stands guard. At the conrJusion of Mr Kirk's lecture yesterday afternoon Mr J. TT. Thorn, orrliard inspector for the Agricultural Department, gave- a most interesting demonstration of packing apples for export. He prefaced this by impressing on his hearers tho great importance' of carefully grading all fruit before boxing, trior" especially seeing that in the immediate future iht exports from ibis Dominion must b«» very large; and as Australia was now also increasing its output, the. competition or; tri« Home markets Trorild bo very much kef*n-r. He emphasised the fact that apples shonk neither bo packed too tight nor too IcafiO. In the former case they "wore liable to b« bruised by pressure when the I'd was ji«» on, while in the latter the play allowed caused a good deal of darcage by friction. Ho advocated grading into thr.v .-:::••»"- viz., 2in. 2iin, and 2?in as the m..st .«'-'' able size.?. He then packsd a ease of <-"'' grade—some in paper wrappers and r" without. He showed the syst--n -<'■■■ ' by which tho apples were virt'-il'v ' ' to each, other in the case, so that ibe-- ■■- mained perfectly firm when the cjsu was shaken.