DUNEDIN WINTER SHOW.

North Otago Times, 5 June 1913, Page 4

DUNEDIN WINTER SHOW.

(J'rom Our Special Reporter.) Dunedin, June 3. the annual winter show , oi p! C + ot ?S° -Agricultural and astoral Association, which was opened this afternoon necessarily bears a strong family likeness to its predecessors. In some respects it is better than lust year's show, but in others it tails short both in point of numbers and quality of the exhibits, .from the point of Vlew of bulk and high average quality the dairy produce easily takes first place. There is a magnificent array of cheese. nod that the quality is of the highest is fully attested by the points awarded by the judge? (the Uovernment graders). The Jidendale Factory secured the first award in the four first classes, scoring <)fi points out ot 100 in each of them, but ii tnc class for loaf cheese had tc take second place to the Stir

ing factory, which won with ■% points, in the gratlinii class, the award being based on tlie average of points given to the factory's whole output lor the season, the Wright's Bush Factory. (Southland)' secured the first prize of £l2 with an. average 0 f 92.82 pointsand all the other live prizewinners beat 91 points, th; second going to the KoneokoKnko Factory (Wellington) with U2.3L points, These grading points provided the best testimony to _ the general high level of quality of the cheese exported from; the Dominion, there was also a good array of butter, and here again the points awauded were high. The Canterbury Central (Jo-opera-I've Dairy Company secured the first prizes m'both tlv open classes, with M'- points, beating the Taieri and Peninsula Company's Duno'lin factory bv half a point, which was obtained in both instance? lor flavor, The Oamaru factory "ad three exhibits -in each class, and of these one scored ■'■j and the other i)2| points, the factory holding a good poI ?' tion : 1,1 the 'grading class the ; Jaieri and Peninsula Com- . Panv's Dunedin factory lead with an ■ average l of !M.'/ , points lor the season, followed I JyLepperton (Taranaki) witli , ■W.pS and lnglewood (Tara- , nafci) 94.2], while the ■ other? 1 were close up. Une of the comparatively , weak spots in the show is the ro o ts_ section, in which the (lis- . Play is much smaller than in 'omier years, Hut there aw some really good exhibits,from diflerent. parts of the province, /• i rTf Robertson, - of Mayielc, ivakaiiui, j g the only d'eeiuler of the reputation ol ortli Utago, and he is singularly supaisisliiij scoring first and third for green-top swedes I, fol ' Aberdeen green-top yellow turnips, first for Aberdeen purple-top yellow turmps, first, and second for lonn >'cd mangels, first andh.c. f 0 ? yellow globe mangels, first and seconcl for reel carrots, first anc second for white carrots, and second for collection of roots. ,

(the above was delayed in transmission between 'JJuntdiiT, and Uamaru on Tuesday, .June orcij,

Dunedin, June 4. ■Jhe comprehensive exhibit of the Department o. Agriculture occupying' the whole of a large annexe to the main hall, is one of the chief objects of attraction at the show. Not only, are the exhibits comprehensive in character and well chosen specimens of their respective species and varieties, nut to them is l attached a tund ' of instructive and useful information. To the great collection Otago has contributed much more liberally than usual, and for that, fact w'e are largely indebted to the Waitaki Boys' High School agricultural classes under the puidi"T direction; of Mr Sidney Taylor, of :the Agricultural Department, a'long catalogue of experiment's of 'an instructive character have 'been carried out by the' pupils, mid it is from those experimental plots that the exhibits have boon drawn, labelled and shown t 0 advantage by Mr Taylor. On the devoted to roots crown in various districts under experimental conditions' one finds the. School occupying a considerable ' snace .with a great number of varieties of turnins. •These are shown side'by sido with' similar exhibits' from Unterburv and South Otaro, *ud lose little or nothing by the comparison. l It : is impossible within veasonpible limits to p-ivp the full list, luit the following varieties of turnins with their vields rer acre will. aflfoH en irMn. of what! haSb'een necomplishfd: Pomeranian white flobe, 36 tons• Buttons red. ■Paragon, 36 tons; purple-top'

itammoth, ii 4 tons; Devonshire (JreystoAc, 38 tons. Large Arn:er Globe yellow, 34 tons; iVhjte Stone or Stubble, 34 tons; Cowhorn, or lonir white (a long parsnip-looking and unattractive variety oE turnip) 43 Hons. jNut it'in not hero only, tlmti the Waitaki High School exhibits. .From its cooperative field experiment plots 'tave been obtained the whole of the green foVJder plants as . shown bv the Dqpartnent, and tlie.se embrace a wide variety of: things, from the gigantic Moellor downwards. Then with the exception of a few specimens, all thf> very comprehensive examples of grasses, etc., which tastefullv mounted and accompanied by descriptive literary matter, occupy a large amount of wall epa'ce, have' also bear drawn from the Waitaki school plots. In addition to all these "xhibils the school also contributed an . infinite, variety of other things, including twelve varie-' ties v of potatoes. Jn another oartof the room occupied bv the Department one finds a collection of line samnles of turnips, grown by Mr Thomas Jl'Leiman, of Kokonmo, ns experiments conducted 1 in co-op-irntion with the Agriculturnl Department. Unfortunately the vields per acre of the dill'c.reH varieties are not attached, and 1 cannot give details. Those who remember that 'ast season was not by any means r. favorable one for troot! grain, yields in North Otaco will probably learn with surprise that it occupies an inconspicuous! place the trophies of sheaves of grain which form features'in the depart menal exhibit. The sheaves have evidently been collected with some care from the various p'arts ' of 'Canterbury, otag6 and Southland, ancVmaybc ■acceptc'ed asJ fairly representative of the best crops. From Mr -J. G. A, Rnddenklau, Alma, there were obtained and commended for crossbred turning 54 bushels per acre: Velvet, 45 bushels; and solid straw Tuscan, 4?bushels. Mr

Angus Ross, of Herbert-, furnished a sheaf of imperial) Amber, a variety of wheat with a long "beard," that t?ave 40 bushels to the acre. From Mr ,1. H. Ifinlinson. of Enfield, a sheaf of velvet ear wheat that threshed out 30 bushels to the acre. - ,

South Canterbury was _ also drawn upon freely for specimen grain sheaves, and amongst these I noticed a sheaf of Webb's .Royal Standard wheat, drawn from a crop prown, by Mr W. Qrone, of Animate, that gave 48 bushels per acre. The' only judging reserved for to-day was that of livestock. . of which there was a srood array, all, of course, being fat animals.

, Mr S, H. Shale, of Totara, !'was the'onlv exhibitor of. fat stock ' from Worth Utago, and received a highly commended absent votes were 1 uncounted, longwool hoggets. There is an enormous crowd of peonle .in Dmiedin, drawn from all directions, and the show is so thronged in the afternoon and evening: that the only time one can really view ■the' 4 show is during: a cojuple of hours in the morning,