TRIP TO THE HOMELAND

Otago Daily Times, Issue 15578, 7 October 1912, Page 7

TRIP TO THE HOMELAND

FARMER'S POINT OF VIEW

GENERAL IMPRESSIONS.

(Frto.u Oon, Own ConrtEsr-ONDENr.)

CHRISTCIIURCH, Ootobor 3. Mr Kenneth Macintosh, of Kaiapoi, who left Canterbury early in April for Scotland, And who returned to the dominion on Monday, told a Press reporter that around Glasgow and Paisley lie visited all the louding Olydcfidilo sludmastors' establishments, owl was shown many o[ the finest Clydesdales, hackneys, awl nattlo bred north of tho Tweed. Ho explained that tho term studuiaflter does not mean the actual brooder. Ho may let out oach season ono or two hundred stallions to small farmers, and after tho mares foal the studmaster purchases tho best of thorn according to liis judgment, and they are transferred, as yearlings and up lo two-year-olds, to his stables and fields. From thoro the- Canadian, Australian, South American, and Now Zoaland buyers are ablo to mako a selection of tho picked borsrs of tho country. Lust season there was a very largo ox port of Clydesdale sires, many going to Canada in particular.

An to tlin l)r«r<iinj{ of Cl.v<ksdiil(',s, it was certainly, lu> fiiid,- imposinc, and [or Mimo tiiiio tlio niililions had been (nrourablo to tlic i!iilor|iri*n in Sootlaml, which is tho nursery tor tho world in thnt respect. Airioni; tlio lwuliiiK horses ho wtw tho siro Huron a l'rido mid other irroininnnl honws, which arn n» well known by iiiiino among Olytlcsdnlo men iw that of L'urbiuo in racing circles 1 Tho Itoyal Show at Doncastcr in tho onrly (lays of July was ghorn of its (,'rcal nWritctions in cattle, sheep, nntl piga owing to tho otiibrpjik of foot-and-mouth diswise in an Irish shipment. Thorc wits ,u Rrcnt fliow of sliiro horses, Suffolk, and hackneys. Sj>Nikii)K of tlio /biro horses, Mr Macintosh said he had no ilrsiro to criticise, but it was clour that tho Glydesdnlo was working its way fioulhwnrds in Kngloml, whilo it wnw evident Unit tho Bhirea worn not goinp north. Not only at Donco*lcr, but at other «hows, ho was impressed with tlio display of grain, produce, and gamo front the Commonwealth, and quit" disappointed at tho obsonoo of any indication that Now Zealand had a plueo on tho map. To hundreds of thousands a display by this dominion would have nroved that, if wo had tho money to pay for n DroailnoiiL'ht, wo had tho wool, Kraut, mutton, and other products, nnd a country to which the industriou« surplus population of Kngland—pcoplo who wnro used to farming and wanted to improve their condition—could emigr.ito with 'advaum-tre. A week after tho Donraster Koyn.l Show (ho largo exhibits of tho Commonwealth referred to were tho centre of attraction at tlio Highland Society's (Show at Cupar (Fife), where thorn was an immense attendance. This largely included tho agricultural employees, who got tho (•how holiday, and who wero crowded a'l day long around tlio Australian exhibition, mill eagerly getting information m to tho possibilities of that country. Tho draught liorse classes usually had nlioiit ?.0 onirics, and tho two' and threo-year-olds were wonderfully good. Tho hackneys, for stylo and form, wore superb. There was a splendid display in English and Border Leicester sheep, while tlio implements wore showy. Tho practical manufacturers of New Zealand could not learn much, and in Ktrglnml and Scotland tho systems of tillage wero still behind tho times, in inslanoe of which Mr Macintosh raid that singlo p'oughs wero kept, on many largo farms, and Ihn diso harrows, where they might lio invaluable, wero unknown.