THE AGRICULTURAL SHOW SEASON.
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The Different Events, Their Dates and Venues. What the Farmers Will Look For and the Way in Which They Should be Treated
THE. AGRICULTURAL show season is now upon us and many exhibitors of good t in the motor and implement line are busygetting their exhibits to the various show grouncts.,. The season opens with the Royal Dublin Show at Ballshridge, Dublin, on May 11th, 12thand 13th, but the first county show in England is that of the Oxfordshire Agricultural Society, to be held at, Oxford on May 11th and 12th. Though only a two-days' event, the Oxford County Show will-rank amoing the more important of the events, by reason of its being the first of the season.
The most important event of the month of May however, is the Bath and West and Southern Co.unties Society's Show at Salisbury, which opens on the 20th and lasts until the 25th. The Royal Ulster Agricultural Society holds its show at Balmoral, Belfast's_ on Max 26th for three days. There are several other shows 'during May, most of which are one-day events. The Weatherby Show will 'take place on May 20th, Glasgow Show at Seotstouri, May 2.5th ; Northamptonshire Show, May 27th, at Kettering ; Eastern District of Stirlingshire Show, at Falkirk on the 29th; and Ehdon Bridge and Calda. Valley Show on the same.
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The month of June opens with a large ,nuruber of shows held on pretty well the same dates. June 2nd and 30, the Royal Cornwall Show takes place ; June 3rd and 4th, Suffolk Society at Bury St. Edmunds; June 3rd, Renfrewshire Society at Paisley ; June 8th to 10th, Herefordshire and Worcestershire, at Worcester; June 9th and 10th, Essex Society, at Colchester; and so on. Though all the shows where implements are exhibited will be well patronized, it is pretty certain that in the case of the motor trade -exhibits and the display of tractor ilm.plements, the most solidi patronage will be concentrated. upon the principal shows, such as the -Royal, Smithfield, Royal Dublin, Bath and West, Royal Counties, Highland, and .Agricultural Society's, and the larger three-day events.
Though the entrants' at the county -shows' are believed to be very numerous, it is not expected that these shows will receive the same amount of support from machinery and implement makers as in the days before the svar, but, unless. one had access to all the entrants received by the various shows, it is not pos sible to say exactly what support will be given to all shows, with greater concentration upon the more important even-W, but there is a -policy among the manufacturers to leave the larger part of county and district show work to agents, in order that they themselves may devote the major part of their time and energy to the more pressing needs of manufacture. Most -firms have heavy forward contracts, and it would be folly on their part to neglect production in order that shows may be well patronized, not forgetting at the same thee the educational value of such work.
However, this is the first season of shows for several years, and, though the trade may not be able to stage as much as they would like, farmers, on the other hand, will find plenty to interest them..
A good many fanners will, no 'doubt, be paying visits to the machinery department cf the% various shows which they attena, with a view to having a look round in order that they may learn somehing with regard to the capabilities of a -motor lorry for meeting their transport needs and of -a motor tractor for their cultivating 'needs. Too much attention cannot .-be paid' to the adaptability and special merits of motors and tractors so -that any time spent in examining models exhibited at shows cannot be wasted ; it will help the farmer to make up histaind.
Each tractor has its own particular merit, and, just as there are large variety and quality in soils, so it is with tractors. There are many makes of different variety and different quality, and the farmer, before he sets out to buy a tractor, should be acquainted with the nature of his land, the size of his farm, and the shape and lie of his fields, so that the tractor chosen shall be the one most ,suited to the peculiarities of his own farm.
One may be eertain,‘after so many-years Withlittle opportunity of examining new implements and machinery, th-atthe farmer will be verykeen this year at all the shows, and it is the part of those who intend to meet his demands to show him some solid goods that will meet with his approval.
-.Honesty is always the best policy with the farmer, and when an attempt is made to guide him in the selection of an implement-or tractor, the hest practice is to be perfectly straight with him in, putting forward the particular points of anY make of appli ance. AGRIMOT.