Abstract

The Tiruppur cattle and Pony Show and Industrial and Agricultural Exhibition was opened at 11A.M.on Thursday.the 31st May1923.Sir Charles Todhunter,the Hon'ble Finance Member,in opening the show.enlarged upon the importance of holding such Shows and Exhibitions.he said that the holding of Shows and Exhibitions was a means of education to the ryots in cattle breeding, pracical farming and scientific agriculture. Cattle breeding in Coimbatore District was of a higher standard than in other districts and it was the duty of all to make the best use of their cattle by improving the breeds on up-to date lines. for the improvement of agriculture, which was the main-stay of the people,depended very much on the livestock.Mr.K.Unnikrishna Menon than real a paper on the "Fodder problem in South India"and exhibited specimens of Guinea grass and Elephant grass which he said were very prifitably cultivated in the Central Farm, Coimbatore.He also showed specimens of young cholam preserved insilo pits which he said were eagerly devoured by cattle.His paper is printed elsewhere in full.Among those present werre Lady Todhunter.Mr.Braidwood,--the Collector and president o the Association,Mr.R.D.Anstead, the Director of Agriculture. Mr.C.Narayana Ayyar,Deputy Director of Agriculture,Mr.Littlewood D.D.Livestock, Mr.Ware,Supt Civil Veter Department ,Mr.S.Sundararaman, the Government mycologist and the Offg.Government Entomologist.The Show was on the whole.rather poor this year and many of the stallss were empty and one would wish that the Agricultural Association would would bestir itself to greater effert in future years and try to attract more exhibits.The Agricultural Depatment us usual put up a fairly good show wherein agricultural implements seeds,improved manure pits and pictures and specimens of pests and diseases of rops were exhibited.At night on the 31st May and 1st June 1923,magic lantern slides on various Agricultural subjeccts such as improved methods of agriculture and remedies for pests and diseases were shown to a lare and interested audience.The lantern show was much enlivened by the comic performances of one of the senior Artists of the Agricultural College. In the Fisheries section the exhibition of fish meal. which was reported to he very nutrilive as food for cattle,horses and poultry,was particularly moteworthy In the cattle section, the cattle exhibited by the Pattagar of Palayamkottai. the famous breeder for Kangayam Cattle. were as usual very canspiicuous,on the and inst.at the morning .Sir CharlesTothumter, gave away te prizes. after which design he deleverd a short speech in which he expatiated on the importance of improving the breeds of cattle inthis country.He condenmed the usual system of maintaining thousands of miserable half-starved creatures which had to find what living they croud on communal grazing grounds and which were left to themeselves, without check of any sort. to breed indiscriminately. The function cane to an end by the proposal of thanks by Mc.Braidwood, to all responsible for making of cattle show and exhibition is sucess

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