98 THE MERRY GEE-GEE 



competitor would stand a better chance. 

 I saw it mooted recently in one of the 

 papers that it was in contemplation to 

 organize a sort of central authority to 

 control agricultural and horse shows 

 throughout the country, and I cordially 

 agree with such a movement. It would 

 probably, in a minor degree, bear the 

 same relation to show committees as 

 the jockey club does to local stewards 

 of race meetings, and be a Court of 

 Reference for grievances on the part of 

 exhibitors, with power to blackball 

 fraudulent exhibitors from exhibiting at 

 any show '' under the rules." 



A big grievance with exhibitors is 

 that some secretaries will take entries 

 with impunity for days after the adver- 

 tised time of closing, whilst others won't 

 budge an inch. This wants regulating, 

 and there should really be a hard-and- 



