The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1880-11-02 00:00:00

BLANDFORD AGRICU I.TURAL SOCIETY.

The animal stork show in connection with the Blandford
F oimer'e Club wso hi Id on Friday, and, although the
number of ani tu ilg exhibied showed • marked falling off
from the exhibition. •,1 previous years, yet the committee
coaridered there were good and aufli lent re •4111111 for this,
and it wail not refried as the least ratiefactory meeting
the doh ham bad. LI impare4 with lest year there were 100
beasts entere I, although in given! classes the prise
bad been increased in value, extra prize bad been given
In others, and, notably in heifer classes, single heifers were
accepted ai an entry instead of one. This last seems a
somewhat mistaken leniency. Surely, it is no very great
thing to ask the owner of a luau dairy to bring two
animals into the yard in a c fit for exhibition. As
It was, It did not add to the number of exhibitors in those
particular classes, and, u very few teemed to appreciats
the alteration, the probability is the rule will le again
revised. Payment at the gate by the public, we would
also suggest. La a restriction, and might advantageously be
done away with. The owner of a prigi4eker likes the
public to have • look at his beast: and it meat be an
enthusiast in coronet Vona of this kind who would pay a
shilling to wander about • wet field and look at so few
&Mins!. as were penned on Friday._ The chief prise of the
show is that off ired by the Hon. W. 11. B. Portassn.ll.P.,
for hunter% £lO, ani this year it was c.rried off by •
popular priet toner. Mr. G. W. Dantell's "daffodil," and,
although Kr. W. C. Young. who took second with his
chestnut, expressed hie opinion during the after-dinner
proceedings that the judges had made a mistake, the
general voice was against him. Perhaps, however. these
animals may meet on • future occasion at one or other of
the local shows. L ird Wolverton, whom every one hoped
would have been present at the dinner, was awarded first
priss for cart geldings and Allies; and In the class for
cobs Mr. Taylor would have taken 'wood, but he had the
misfortune to find his animal Just lifted the measuring
standard. Mr. G. W. Homer's Hampshire Dawns were
much admired, as were Mr. Henry Pooke's pet south-
downs. Of course, for pigs, the name of Bonj.field was
to the fore. The second valuable prise was that gives by
the president, Ur. J. T. H. Scutt, for • crop of roota
of not less than 40 acres, which was taken by Mr. Thomas
Taylor, of Pimperne. Mr. Scott believes that, looking at
foreign competition, root growing should be one of the
List things marked out for encouragement by those
societies,. There were three ssreepstakee—one for mangel
wart's,, swede*, and turnip. respectively. In the last,Mr.
Wm. Rogers put iii Is. 6.1., and had the supreme pleasure
of winning his own money. This about exhausts all that
need he said as to the show. The day was, although cold,
One and cheering, and thst portion of the Crown meadow,
which bad, as usual, been lent by the kindly host of the
bout, that was devoted to the show was high and MI dry
a. ever could be expected, seeing that around Bailey Gate
the traveller saw vast tracks of land under Water that had
not been covered for years. The Judges were, for horses
and beasts, Mr. W. Miles, East Orchard, and Mr. J. Llll3.
pard, of Heytesbury ; for sheep and Pife. Kr. J. rooltes.
of Gallingburne Kingston. Wilts. and Kr. R. Oclts",
Watersoo. The total number of entries Oil year was 240
as against 360 last year. It is only a matt ni of justice to
add that the hoe. sec., Mr. It 0. Richard., was, as usual,
indefatigable in his exertions, and there was not a batch
to mar the proceeding.