SMITHFIELD CLUB.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20320, 31 January 1928, Page 4

SMITHFIELD CLUB.

ANNUAL SHOW.

TRIUMPH OF BABY BEEF.

CHAMPIONSHIP TO TWO-YEAR OLD,

The best since 1914 is certainly a very accurate way of describing the fcnnthheid Club Show which is now running to its close in the Royal Agricultural Hall Islington. The 1927 show would have' been even more successful had scvcial notable breeders been debarred from sending their cattle and s hcep owing to restrictions in force, in the’.r areas in connection with outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease. Never thcloss, it wa s « g rca t display, mainly baby beeves, and rapidly out readilv and worthily produced lanio.s ami trim porkers of the ago of seven months. Certainly ha s this show proved that th 'e Is mudi merit in early inatuiod mea N and even of “ flavour ” may be lacking to the extent our forefathers knew it tlneatness and quality of joints called ’or to-dav i- forthcoming from the carcasses of the stock bred and fed for tin, show, the judges allotted the supreme cattle Championship to a lirst-cross steer the ban of Durham’s S mrthcrn-Aberaeon Angn s exhibit which m one year and U lllo ' lL ' b weighed 12c wt 271 b By name -L I his steer was bred and fed at. heme Houses. There was no t a particle of waste about him, either in flesh or bone. He serve for the supreme tit e was the Ed.u----bm-h champion, the sfyhsh Aberdeen. Angus heifer Kuxida bred fed. and exhibited by Sii John R- f'mdla.v. bho w.as •, month and foui days older than Baron -I uid 'he weighed ICcw, 2qr lib. Eux.da had the honour of beating ,en route to me supreme title, the junior ciampion at Ra- • Untti iVio all-over champion fit No* wich b and a coleric of exhibits among ms pie cmineiit bec7 brood., difficult to match at anv one exhibition in *hv woild. Ihv Earl of Durham’s steer also won the Km- 8 ch-illeii-e cup ior the best beast broil hv the exhibitor, and here Sir John I'liidl-.V was also reserve. . Baronet was sold .or conn to a Stoke Newington cutvhci. The baby beef championslup-for cattle Under 15 months old-fell to the I tince of WaW* Goldie steer, Cliinsland L- carnoughl, a Shorthorn which was reserve champion of its breed. The £ls cup for the best steel over 15 months hut under two years went to Lord Durham’s champion and Ins reserve was Mr R- S. M’Wihams Bioadhc.oks Shorthorn steer, which had won a very strong class. The best heifer over 15 mouths but under two years was Sir John F nHlav’s rpsorvu supreme champion, which now took a £25 cup. and her runner-up was one of Mr Alexander Reid s AngusSlmrtlu rn first crosses. Other cups worth £SO apiece went to the I-cnee Home steer and (he Ahorlour lie for, the Duke of Fortland’s Birmingham supreme champion. V\ clbeck Sectarian, being reserve for the steer award. , , . The £59 champion plate for long-.woollod sheep was won hv Mr William Jordan’s Eeicestcrs, with Mr F.rnest Addison's f.m--(.olUp. j;, icserve. A similar award for shortwoolled sheep fell to the King’s Southdown wethers from Sandringham, their reserves being the Hampshire Downs of Mr J. 11. Benvon, who provided the champions at, Birmingham. The £2O champion plate for

Mountain breeds fell to Mr I‘ted Bc.no (Tiniberseombei for a pen of U2b Bxinuor Horn wot hers. The:r t e.erves were a trio Welsh Mountain 19-6 wethers llio Print'C of Wales's perpetual cup for tue {,* t ncn bred by the exhibitor went 1,0 5”! King’s Soutbdowns w.th Mr Jordan s as reserve. ibe £2O champion plate lor two pig* Wl to the Middle Whites exhibited by the City o l.ondon Mental Hospital, the Visiting Committee 0 [ which maintains a large herd at Men .. D-irtford I heir runners-up wove ft i Julios Vi cher junior's Beikshiics. the champion si ." e pig was a crossbred White produced bv "the l.ondon breeders arid feeders Messn Rnck'ev and Sons. Kdmonton, and one of Mr Vickcr’s pedigice Beikshircs stood in reserve.