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New Zealand Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 5731, 28 October 1905, Page 13

Manawatu Kennel Club have mack* a number of additions to prize list previously drawn up for competition ah their Dog Show on November Ist, 2nd, and 3rd. The original prize list mentioned prizes of 2Cte, 7s 6d, and ss. butin addition there will be specials of half a guinea each allotted to challenge/ classes, sportiiig and non-sporting brace and teams, rough-coated collies, and smooth and -wire-haired fox terrier's. According to some of the American; Agricultural papers, a Paris chemist ia making artificial eggs, with shells composed of lime and bismuth, whites of sulphur carbon and beef fat, and yolks! of beef blood and magnesia, coloured with chrome yellow. How these delicate little fancy fables do go round. It is impossible to escape the conviction that our dairy herds will never do themselves proper justice until a system by which they can be supplied with succulent food all the year round is established. For a few pounds a farmer may provide 50 tons or more of ensilage, which would keep a herd of ten cows going through the worst months of winter. The price of his 50 tens of ensilage would be covered in a very short time by the gain in the returns from the factory. The actual number of people described in the 1901 census scheduled as having occupations necessitating their occupying holdings of iand, was 40,144, This number includes 28,337 farmers, 3,220 runliolders, 895 market gardeners. 2,388 horticulturists or gardeners, 4,702 dairy-farmers, 345 fruit-growers, 29 vignerons, 159 poultry-farmers. 35 hee farmers, and 34 others.