.YEW ZEbLA-YI) EXHIBITION. I:, '
As for the agricultural resources of h-orth Canterbury, they were evvhere the great distinguishing feature of the court. There were arches of corn-sheaves ; there were sacks in profusion of all kinds of grains which grow to perfection on the Canterbury Plains ; wheats of various kinds, oats and barley, grass and clover seeds of all kinds; peas, beans, and potstoea Excel- lent photographic enlargements of sheep, cattle, and horses illustrated the fine class of stock bred in the province. ,mrn ostrich-feathers were shorn ; the live birds n-ere on view in an enclosure at the back of the Exhi'bition. Townsmen and farmers alike were interested in two -'regetable sheep" (Raoulia rnawt- m&tis) or enshion plants, from the rocky sheep-runs of the interior. alongside a stuffed specimen of the kea or sheep- eating parrot, once a vegetarian, nos a carnivorous bird. On the walls there were game trophies, antlered heads of deer shot in the North Canterbq Pro-&ce, and splendid specimens of the ,peat brown trout for which the rivers of the prorince NIL F. Sarrrss UEAIY~~ .SEC-~ FI1 m. SIIRTR CATTYI~TR\ COJIXI-L are famous. The fo110wing were the principal exhibitom in the various classes of farm-products which bullied so largely in this court :- In butter the exhibitors were four lap da*ng companies of the Plains-the Canterbuq Central Co-operative, the Taitapu, Sefton, and Canterbury Dairy Com- panies. In cheese, hides the monster half-ton cheese made by the Barry's Bay D w- factory Con~pany for the Banks Peninsula Associated Factories, there were exhibits from \*arious factories in the fine X ing district of tUraroa and surrounding Peninsula country. Large, n~ecliunh and loaf cheeses of excellent quality were sent by the daiq-- factories at Oliain's Bay, Kainui, Little Akaroa, German Bay, and Barry's Ray. In ,pain and seeds there were about a hundred e-&biter, all we11 classified and neatly arranged. The wheat-samples shom by farmers were : Purple-straw Tuscan wheat-pwn ~nd exhibited by Iuwood Bros., Southbridge: R. Evans, Clifton. Waikari. White straw Tuscan-James Goug'h, Greeudale. Hunter's l\hite-George Judd. Waddington : Gillander Rros., Waddington ; D. Hun~m, Taddington : R. Evans, Clifton, Waikari : H. Archer. ,Southbrook; Mm. Green, Darfield Golden Drop Pearl-J. Isles, Taldhurst ; J. T. Blachmore, Springston. Pearl n-heat-H. Archer, Southbmk; J. Oslmrne. Doyleston ; Jnwood Rros., Southbridge : R. Evans, Kaiapoi Velvet chaff- J. Ste~enson, Flaxton ; A. McPherson, Southbridge : P. Chamberlain, Leeston. Solidstnrn- Tuscan-R. Evans, gsiapoi Essex-,i. McPherson, jun., Lakeside. Goodgrade samples of Champion and Webb's Challenge wheat grown on the farm-lands of the T,incoln Agr:cubra' College, near <strong>Christchurch</strong>, were aLso shom. Excellent samples of oata of various Aids were contributed b~ the following eshibitors : David NcGom, Hororata ; S. Gilbert, Dunsandel ; J. Osbome, Doyleston ; G. Judd, Waddington ; H. H. Hudson, Rangiora ; F. Benham, Kowai Bush ; A. Tutton ; Rangiora ; R. Evans, Kaiapoi ; R. Evans, Clifton, Waikari ; Sir John Hall, Hororata ; J. Cumhqham, Sheffield ; and 6. Storep, Southbridge. Oat. in the sheaf were shom by some of the above and also by John Boag, Brookside ; 8. Lockhead, Southbridge ; J. Nyers, Cooper's Creek ; W. Withell, Broohide ; F. k Courage, Amberley ; F. Bond, Cairnbrae ; and W. Bradshaw, Shdeld In barley, the growers who sent exhibits were : H. H, Hudson, Rangiora ; M. F.