IRISH DONKEYS FOR SOUTH AFRICA 63 



If anything practical is done in this matter, it will 

 come from above, not from the peasants. If the 

 Dublin Agricultural Society, whose splendid Horse 

 Show and fine buildings are one of the best institutions 

 of the kind in the United Kingdom, could be induced 

 to interest themselves, the movement would have the 

 best chance of success. It might be considered infra 

 dig. to include donkeys in the show, but that is only a 

 question of custom, and of the quality of the animals 

 exhibited. In the great agricultural shows of Kentucky 

 one day is always reserved for judging donkeys, and 

 the price of a thousand pounds has been paid for a 

 donkey sire. 



