THE APITI SHOW.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 2888, 7 March 1916, Page 2

THE APITI SHOW.

Apiti folk will hold their big Show on \Vedne<ida<y of next week. for fhi-j Show this year the Commit tec are <loing their very nest, hoping lo make it, the -best yet. Willi the help ill the settlers this can he done, and there is no doubt, thai, help will be forthcoming.

The erection of the Wellington Moat Export Company .. new freezing works at Kakariki, near Marton, i.s to be proceeded with -immediately. The Yellow Queen tomato is a success this sea-son, judging by some luscious Slliple.s 101 lat the iS'I'AII office this morning by Mr Towlor. A record wa.s put up at the Fcihling Technical School last night, when the class for shorthand and typowriting had no fewer than -J5 member:..

Special interest, attaches In the .March number of the Now Zealand Farmer, (lie Feilding A. and P. Show being well illustrated in thai, issue. Marton, Dannevii-ke, and other -sihow.s ni'o also well treated in the illusl rated page-s. In tihe reading mat-tor columns Air Primrose McConiiell ami Mr JLinton have ti lively articles on agn-onll-iiio and shirk respectively. As usual, tbo magazine is crammed full of good .stuff for thi. farmer, the articles being brightly written aud Ihe information given valuable and practical. .Poultry raisers will lind several pages of extremely good information, winch .should help to fester (his important i ml lis-try.

Last month wo said unpleasant things about one of Mr Jliley's officials who intruded in an impudeinl, way upon a railwayman's home (says fhe N.Z. B.adway 'Review.. Our opinion wa.s that if the General Manager stands for flat sort of thing he would deserve, lo be .insulted, per pro subordinate officialdom with Ihe .swelled head. However, we aro glad to tell of the pleas:..! it sequel. Mr Hi ley, so far from approving of the incident we pictured, has indicated to the pompon., chief actor in if that .such measures arc improper, and not endorsed at headquarters. As a practical sign of displeasure, the department 'lias moved the pompous addleheaded person into a new district.

Mr Sain. 8. Steele, the official .fester for the Cheltenham and Apiti Cow Testing Associations, supplies the following figures for the period ending February 20 : Cheltenham —Association- average, 017Ibs. milk. test 2G.'2'2lbs. fat; highest herd average, 72(ilbs. milk.. 1.80 test, li-l.Oilh.s. fat; lowest (herd average, 05-Jlbs. milk, H. 77 test, 20.D21.85. fat; highest individual yield, l'.2Ulbs. milk, 4.5 test, .*i!>..tOlhs. fat; lowest individual yield, 2-101 hs. milk, 2.5 lest, G.OJhs. fat. Apiti -- Association average, fillflbs. milk .1.08 lest, 20.251 lis. fat; highest he.nl average, HS'Rlis. milk, 1.00 test, 30. 171.b.<- fat; lowesl herd average, .''BUllis. milk. 1.02 test-, )s.'jo|bs. fat; highest individual yield, 14251b:.. milk, 1.3 lest 01.27ibs.'fa-f; lowest individual vicld l.Oolbs. milk, -1.8 test,, 7,11 lbs. fat.