Fat Cattle in England.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XVIII, Issue 1689, 23 March 1885, Page 3

Fat Cattle in England.

V at " u At . t!l ” i rc-Cbti-tm.i: JJi. ming. W: hng.M, iuurnai -he beasts exhibited Ugl 'id ever seen cu ” 1 - ‘ iur,.l saow. < Jiic or t'.,■*.«(,• ■' “ L ! o ■ Canadian brute taa ! t:e aut!l v.'.ii'd have done a< ;, : r ' 00 hi i- fr ’itt tho yard alt”. though Canada has ito get e ,>t H< Ugly uioti ■ lv ” f ll o: l.figir-n -uowvard, e “ ' 1 '■ I'’ r - o) see that the old coun- !■' i,” -’ vr it, evci ;:i in .ns![Msitics, A U v..iii gen 'lea,an named Junes fV 1 l,l ‘ s f'iaek Welsh beast that is Ccger, hcatier, ugii.-r than the Cana ‘■.an Jumbo, and that cou'd give points ‘■it either of these heads to its Trails• aCantie competitor, and then win eatny, .Standing just over sft lOin m height and loft in length, and 5 years old, this a; im;;' ner.'., no p., s •than 24cwt 2qr 12; b. th , being, perhaps, the heaviest ever a snow. Two others in thio class weigu -S over 2dcwt, while the Canadian (41- years °!dj weighs over 22ewt Iqr bib.* Alt these big beasts disfigure the show, Ind the otily pleasure to be derived from them is that if Transatlantic monstrosities are sent to English snow yards they can be beaten by come productions.

Mr, Burnet, tbe Blue Ribbon apostle, left Hobart on Wednesday week, and “ opens fire ” at Invercargill. Mrs. Burnett accompanies him to wage war against the employment of females in bars. Another blue ribboucr, the Rev. J. Fountain, also expects to arrive in New Zealand soon. Mrs. Fountain also accompanies him, and lie will review the army, enrol new soldiers, ami address blue ribbon meetings. Still another temperance advocate is on the way, in the person of Mrs. Mary G. C. Leavett, whose fame as a lecturer, we are told, has preceded her. Mrs. Leavett is the accredited agent of the Christian Temperance Union of the United States. She has already formed a Women’s Christian Temperance Union in Auckland, and her object is to form similar unions wherever the English language is spoken.

The Palmerston North correspondent of the Woodville Examiner writes : As a warning to your district, f will now relate the fate of the butter factory. When the thing was first mooted, it was pronounced on all hands to be a grand scheme, and farmers were willing to supply almost any quantity of milk. All went smoothly for a short time, when it was discovered that the milk supplied did not average 5 per cent of cream. The manager put up a notice to this effect in the factory, and strange to say there was an immediate impiovment (10 per cent), which, however, lasted only a few weeks. On the average again falling back, it was decided by the management to pay each supplier for quality, not quantity, but tbe generous farmers held a caucus and stopped supplies, and the butter factory now stands as a monument to those who pledged them selves to support it and failed to do so. Bo long as the Directors were willing to pay full value for an inferior article, the suppliers w’ere content, but they could not stand an analysis ; so I conclude from their action. Like the Soap Factory, this is also a failure.”