THE KING AS STOCKBREEDER.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12662, 23 January 1904, Page 2

THE KING AS STOCKBREEDER.

The King’s remarkable success as a prize-winner at last week’s Birmingham cattle show has attracted much attention (says a London correspondent, writing on December 4th). It is no small achievement for any single exhibitor, making nine or ten entries, to win witn every one. His Majesty sent nine animals from the Windsor herds—three Hereto rds. two Shorthorns, and four Devons. With these he won four first; prizes, three seconds, and two reserves, besides carrying off a championship with a Hereford steer- There was only one entry, a Dexter steer, from the King’s herds at Sandringham, and this was awarded a second prize. The King’s farming and .stock-rearing is very largely in liis own hands. As a private occupation he prefers It, even to his racehorses. Whenever he Has a distinguished visitor, as in the recent cases of President Loubet and the King of Italy, he carries them off at the earliest possible moment to show what can be done in the way of breeding and rearing stock. The management of his Sandringham estate is almost entirely done from his own desk. Yon can form some idea of the scale upon which King Edward follows this occupation when I mention that he is reported to possess nearly 20G Shire horses. In his cattle breeding, he goes upon the principle 01 weeding out everything that is not really first-class.