STRATFORD.

Taranaki Daily News, 26 August 1921, Page 6

STRATFORD.

STBATFOKD AGENCY. Advertisements and hems of news for Duplication in tte Taranaki Daily News should be left at the office of our local representatives, Wilson Bros., Broadway, Stratford. Or dera for papers may also be left with them. A. AND P. ASSOCIATION. ’ August 25, A meeting of the general committee of the Stratford A. and P. Association was held on Saturday. The executive report stated that the dates fixed for the annual show were November 23 and 24, three weeks after the Manawatu Show, and the week following the Wanganui fixtures. Judges and chairmen of all sections had been appointed, and the schedule had been revised. Several minor alterations had been made in the horse section, two jumping events being transferred from the second to the first day, as it was thought.

that last year’s programme was too severe a tax on the ariimals. No alterations had been made to the pedigree tattle classes, but several additional classes had been inserted in the Jersey and Friesian breeds, at the instigation of the local breeders' j societies. The grade and crossbred were I on the same lines as last year, with the ’exception that animals entered in the grade | section were not. eligible Io compete in J the crossbred. The sheep section, with ; the exception of the deletion of English j Leicesters in purebred and grade classes, | were the same as last year, and the classes 1 were the same as last year in the pig I section, with the addition of the Perrett I Shield for most points in the Berkshire ‘ classes, and an insertion of the rule that pigs entered in the purebred classes must : he entered or eligible for entry in the herd ; book. Several fresh classes had been added J to the industrial and junior sections, whilst ' the dog section was similar in classes and ' prize money to that of |920, with the exI ception of challenge classes to rough-coated i collies,- greyhounds and Irish water spaniels. A working bee held on Thursday had pulled down the old pig pens and cleared the ground for the erection of new ones. Fourteen new members were elected. The question of holding a Royal Show was discussed, Mr. Linnell givingibotice of motion that his association supported the holding of a Royal Show on the lines , brought down by the Council of Agriculture. Messrs. O’Sullivan and Sons have preI sented to the association a champion dairy plate and twenty guineas for competition in the Jersey section. MODEL DAIRY FARM.

The report which will be presented at the annual meeting of the Stratford Model Dairy Farm on Saturday states that during die past year the crops grown were very satisfactory. With swedes 23 different manurial trials were carried out. The land had never been used before. It wti ploughed early and well cultivated and rolled. The swede used was Hurst's Magnum Bonuni. In swede variety trials eight different varieties werq used. Mangolds and carrots were grown on land which had carried a crop of swedes in the previous year. Various manures were tried with mangolds, and four varieties of both mangolds and carrots were sown. Fodder ’ crops for hay or ensilage were oats and Vetches and oats and peas. The quantities . and varieties of the legumes were varied. An acre of beans and peas did remarkably well, and a field sown down to pasture with Buda Kale is at the present time carrying a splendid sole of grass. The top-dressing trials include the pasture of all ages, from that sown down a few months previously to the old bush pasture of over twenty years.

j Mr. W. J. Deem, in an address on “Crops, i Fertilisers and! Top-dressing”, -will deal j fully with the report, and farmers are ini xiled to be present and discuss the i which wiil be. reviewed. The meeting will ‘ be held in the Parish Hail al 1.30 p.m. GENERAL NEWS. [ The death of an old resident of Strati lord, in the person of Mi-. Frank Arden, occurred at New Plymouth on Monday, after a lingering illness. The late Mr’. Arden was for several years an inspector in the fields division of the Agricultural Department, and on retiring owing to ill- • ness, took up his residence in Stratford. His special hobby was horticulture, of i | which lie was a prominent and successful i student. For a term deceased was a meml et oi (he Stratford Borough Council, being compelled to retire owing to a paralytic , stroke, from which he never fully recovered. His age was 74.

I. I. Lainason wishes to draw special attention to his advertisement in another column of a splendid display of carpets, I ? ln ? ers seagrass squares, with which he is offering the unique opportunity i ol securing goods at less than wholesale I prices.

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