NATIONAL DAIRY SHOW

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7139, 28 May 1910, Page 16

NATIONAL DAIRY SHOW

EXPEBIMENTAL EABMS’ EXHIBIT.

Tho Department of Agriculture will be making a great display of agricultural products at the National Dairy Show, reflecting the experimental worjc (farm) Irom lluakura, Moumahaki, and tho U’eraiua stations of the North Island. In the display tho products will bo arranged in sections : —Cereals, wheat, barley, rye, maize, etc., in ear and threshed; roots of all lands grown under various conditions of . culture; pasture grasses from experimental patches illustrating tho uso of artificial manures by the growth of grasses and fonder of all kinds. Apples also in great variety will be shown. To all the exhibits of farm produce most useful information will be attached for the benefit of tho farmer. The department cannot be praised too highly for the trouble it is taking to make its display of special value to tho visitor looking for information on hew to do things. Tho Veterinary Department, under Mr C. J. Peakes, will also have a stand dealing with the matters exclusively for the stock owner. In making the ex. perimental farms exhibit at the National Dairy Show it will specially benefit the AVellington, Hawke's Bay, and Taranaki farming communities, and tho central position of Paime-ston North gives everyone an opportunity of attending the show to view what will be a_ really valuable display worthy of a visit from every man who has to earn a living from the products of the soil. Many other new features will be in evidence, notably milking cows by machinery, with an auditorium to hold three hundred, spectators. Admission to this will be extra. The daily admission to the show is only one shilling and visitors can obtain a valuable concession in Reason tickets for five shillings. Tho National Dairy Show buildings are within four minutes' walk from the centre of XMlmerston North and adjacent to the railway station.