THE PALMERSTON AGRICULTURAL CARNIVAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 24 April 1907, Page 4

THE PALMERSTON AGRICULTURAL CARNIVAL.

j AGRICULTURAL CARNIVAL. ! WINTER SHOW AND DAIRY CONVENTION. [Unite Press Associates.] j PALMERSTON N., Tuesday. | The fifth annual National Winter Dairy Show and Dairymen's Convention to be held at Palmerston North in June next, promises to be a great , advance on those previously held. Ap- ] plication for space in the machinery hall closed on Saturday, and the space reserved for moving dairy machinery, dairy plants, and working oil engines requires some 8000 square feet in addition to which some 250 feet of shafting is required to convey the necessary power for the working exhibits. Firms i from all over the colony will exhibit. | The working dairy machinery division will comprise refrigerators, dairy and factory appliances, churns, and all : kinds of dairy factory novelties and requisites necessary to the equipment of ■, a modern factory. In adition there will be a milking machine and a working exhibit of a milker on the cows in the show grounds adjoining the winter show buildings. The Department of Agriculture is making an exhibit requiring some COO square feet, and the exhibit will : nclude grasses, noxious weeds, poultry, canned goods, wines, fruit, roost, cereals, and specimens of insect pests and their natural enemies, and will be supplemented with features from the Exhibition, The Dairymen's Convention under the auspices of the National Dairy Association of New Zealand Ltd., and the New Zealand Factory Butter and Cheesemakers' Association, will last two days, and the programme includes matters of considerable interest to dairymen. For the dairy factory classes 47 factories have entered for the .butter classes and 16 factories for the cheese classes. Mr J. H. Shaw, of Christchurch, has accepted the position of judge for the Champion Poultry Show, held in conjunction with the Winter Show. The Levin Horticultural Society have notified their intention of making a distinct exhibit of considerable- proportions.