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and Sale," but I saw fourteen go through without 

 one sold. The sales were few, and the premiums 

 very few. Exhibitors from all the four provinces 

 looked at each other saying : " Catch me coming 

 again to a Department bull show." Yet the 

 fiction runs from year to year, and I suppose as 

 many will be duped next time. 



In " a dairying country," one naturally looked 

 to that section, but I saw no dairy premium 

 awarded. I heard of " one or two," but the 

 report in the Farmers' Gazette came out without 

 one at all. 



The Department had two experts there to 

 judge the bulls and award the premiums, and one 

 of these gentlemen gave me this amazing informa- 

 tion : " In awarding the dairy premiums, we do 

 not take into account either the milk yield or the 

 butter fat of the dam, " ; this in reference to the 

 bulls specially bred under the Department's own 

 rules, from cows selected, tested and registered by 

 the Department itself in a dairying country. 

 It is plain, even in bulls, that the underlying 

 fallacy of the Department, the Agricultural 

 Organisation Society, and all such is the assump- 

 tion that industry may grow and that public 

 money ought to be expended for it without regard 

 to any development in industrial character or to 

 the mediaeval scheme of primary education which 

 works behind it and controls it. 



One of the unfortunate exhibitors at the bull 

 show was known to have severely criticised the 

 Department, and his bulls were beaten with 

 sticks and pelted with stones in the show ground 



