URUGUAYAN COMMISSION

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 8053, 6 March 1912, Page 1

URUGUAYAN COMMISSION

VISIT TO MANAWATU MUNIFICENT GIFT BY MR SHORT, FEILDING. PEDIGREE CLYDESDALE COLT. FEOM oua SPECIAL EEPOETEE. ARAMOHO, March 5. Tho Uruguayan commission lost no time during their short stay in Feilding yesterday morning, where they were the guests of Mr E. Short, the wellknown breeder of purebred stock. The visitors and a large and representative ; gathering of farmers assembled at “ Almadale,” where the pick' of Mr Short’s Romneys, Herefords, and Clydesdales were paraded for inspection. The travellers were delighted with the exhibition, arid expressed the opinion that the individual merits of the stock were equal to the best they had seen in the Old World, and collectively the best they had found anywhere. After seeing the stock that New Zealand is producing the commission is confident that Uruguay will become a good market for our sheep, cattle, and horses. As an enterprising business man Mr Short is unsurpassed in the Dominion, and he rose to the occasion to-day by making the magnificent ofieri to present the Uruguayan Government, through the members of the commission, with the pick of 'his Clydesdale colts, one that had been greatly ■ admired by tire stock specialists of the party. The colt is Record Breaker, by_Royal Treasure (imp.), dam Lady 'Graceful. The sire and dam have each won several championships in New Zealand show rings, and Record Breaker was also first in a strong class at Masterton tho other week. Throe hundred guineas had already been refused for the colt, so Mr Short’s munificence can be readily "understood. By his generosity to-day he has made his country still more indebted to him as, a world-wide advertiser of stock, first Romneys ■now with Clydesdales.

- Other farms visited were those of Messrs James Knight, H. J. Booth, and Hugh Barrel, and in' each instance studs of Southdowns were inspected.