BLUE SKIN.

Otago Witness, Issue 1731, 24 January 1885, Page 15

BLUE SKIN.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

January 20. A. .^nd P. Association. — A meeting of the Committee of the Blueskin Agricultural and Pastoral Society was held on Friday evening at the Saratoga House, there being present — Tbe President (Mr James Green), and Messrs A. WUst, K. B. Ferguson, T, M'Connell, J. Clark, J. Clent, R. Harris, S. Carey, G. Hogg, J. Colehan, and R. Benthim. Mr J. Gemmell's protest against Mr Ferguson's cow Young Nell receiving second prize at the late show as being a cow entered in Section 11 of Ayrshires " bred by exhibitor" was considered. Tho protest was that V* terguson had not bred the exhibit, but thai; sii9 was undropped at the time that gentleman tad bought her mother at Meßßra Fleming an£ Hedley's sale, Oamaru, some years back, A<(ter a lonelily discussion, on the motion Air Hc#pr, seconded M Mr Clark, it waa resolved unaE;mjußly— " That the Commiitee having given tho fullest consideration to the protest lodged by Mr James Gommell, of Oamaru, against tho second prize being awarded to Mr K. B. .Ferguson, alleging that Young Nell was not bred by ,the exhibitor, decline to uphold the same, aa they are satisfied by tho evidence tendored that Young Nell is the progeny of a cow Nolly 111, bought at Oamaru on the 15th April 1880, and that the cow protested ?*« 1 ? B< i7 a 8 "i? lvo . a Gn Mr tfergu-on's farm at the Waitatl In the folio .ving August ; aud further, that it has

been the custom at Oamaru and Dunedin shows to eons!' er stock so bo*n as having been • bred by the exhibitor ' when the purchasers of the parents have exhibited their progeny in after years." At the time the matter was being discussed Mr Ferguson retired from the room.