Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1902-02-18
KING AND SUBJECTS EQUAL.

KING AND SUBJECTS EQUAL.
THE GREAT MIDwINTER CATTLE SHOW
IN NORTH LONDON. GOOD SHOWING
OF THE PoLLED ANGUS.
The month preceding Christmas is
| filled with cattle shows held in all part.
of England. The annual midwintel
show held in North London, however, i.
the great exhibit of the year. For many
years the show has been under roya
patronage, and has been favored will
cattle exhibited from the royal estates
This year the King was an exhibitor a.
usual, as was also his son, the Prince OF
Wales. The entries in all classes mum
bered not quite six hundred, and were
distributed among live stock, sheep anG
pigs. These entries include all the prize
beasts in the kingdom, and at this show
one may see the finest collection, per
haps, of blooded stock in the world. Nc
favorite of the race track is cared fol
more thoroughly and guarded more
closely than these cattle Immediately
preceding and during the show. They
have special trains to carry them down
to London, especially constructed carts
for transportation to the exhibition
building, and even the sheep and pigs
are provided with jackets or coats.
Every animal is examined by veterinary
surgeon before it is allowed to enter the
building, and il there is the slightest
suspicion of sickness the animal is de-
tanned in hospital" Each class has an
entrance and portion of the hall to it.
self. The show is the great event in the
lives of many people in the country, who
make their one yearly visit to London at
this season. There one finds all sorts
and conditions of people. 1t is the one
democratic place in Great Britain. On
the opening day the King comes down
without any ceremony, opens the show
unostentatiously, and mingles freely
with farmers, merchants and exhibitors,
talking easily with the judges and shak-
ing hands with many old friends from
''up the country" You hear all dialects
at this show, and much of the conversa-
tion will be unintelligible to you. For
the rich Irish brogue is mingled with
the Scotch, and the cockney accent of
East London with the broad English of
the counties.
The show was good one throughout,
and in the winning of prizes all the
breeds exhibited came out well, though
the preference seemed to stand with the
Aberdeen Angus, the Sussex, the Cross
bred, the West Highland and the Short
horn breeds. The Devons and the Here.
fords did not contain anything of special
note. The polled Angus had all claims
to supremacy, for it furnished winners
of three out of four championship cups.
Old exhibitors have also told me that
the Sussex breed showed marked i'm
provement this year over previous ex-
hibits. This breed is Local, however,
being pretty we'll confined To the coun-
try from which it takes its name. The
Aberdeen Angus exhibit was very fine,
headed by remarkable heifer, Brune-
filde, owned by Lord Strathmore, which
has had remarkable success at other cattle
shows in the island. There are many
other good specimens of the breed, but
the classes for Galloway and Highland
cattle did not come out SO well. The
Welsh breed had many representatives,
and crossbreds were most numerous.
In the awards of special silver cups
first place went to the King for white
shorthorn steer weighing at twenty and
one-half months twenty-five pounds
over thirteen hundred weight. Placed
in reserve to this fine animal was black
erossbred Aberdeen Angus and Short
horn, one of Cluny Flora 40s progeny,
belonging TO Miss Alice de Rothchilde.
The winner of the breed cup in this class
was j. j. Cridlan, with an extremely
level, well fleshed beast of good quality,
covered in all of his best
points. The best heifer went to the Earl
of Strathmore's Brunehilde. In the con-
test between this heifer and Mr.. Grid
lan's steer for the championship the
steer won the cup.
Exclusive of the silver cup the King
also won four firsts, four seconds, two
two reserve tickets and recon-
Out of his nineteen entries he
was most successful with the Hereford
two-year-old bred by the late Queen; 4
two-year-old steer bred at
roam ShorthOrn heifer
from Windsor, little black
Dexter, Tommy Dodd.
The sheep classes this year were fewer
than last, for the Border Leicesters were
omitted from the programme. The en-
tries of the short-wOolled sheep, notably
the Southdowns, Hampshire Downs and
were all that could be de-
sired. In the sheep classes the King
won third and a fourth prize. The
pig exhibit was not large, and did not
attract the attention of the crowds like
the other portions of the show. On one
day show of table poultry was made
with demonstration of trussing birds
and preparing them for the table. On
the last day large mum, er of the ex-
hibits were sold at auction. One inter-
esting feature of the show was the ex-
hibit of farm implements and machinery.
Several large American firms such as the
Mccormick and Deering people were
The English makes of
farm machinery are far behind the
and with a special study of
the peculiar needs of the English farm
the American manufacturer would find a
great field open for him. That he
should take advantage of these winter
shows goes without saying.
During the show twenty-four Russian
farmers arrived in London, having been
sent at the expense of their government
to study the English market and to OBJ
serve the special methods of the market
in meat, eggs and butter, as well as ap-
Piles aud wine. A majority of the dele
CATION consisted of lar farmers who
farmed from 5000 acres to 100000 acres
each and owned as many as 5000 to
%, 900 head of cattle. Three of the
party, however, were Cossack peasants,
chosen by the government from the
small landholders of Russia. The entire
group presented a novel and picturesque
appearance as they slowly went the
rounds of the cattle show. One. who
was seven feet in height, wore an Astrak-
han fez that added nearly foot more to
his stature. The Cossacks wore high
caps and long skirted coats.-Tribune
Farmer.