| Show J 7 FARMER KING ALWAYS A PRIZE WINNER Edwards Keen Personal Interest in His Land and Live Stock Tells at the Winter Shows Where His Cattle Always Carry Off the Highest J Stock Eagerly Bought by Bleeders B j Special Correspondence ONDON DON Dec Is he lc LO ginning just now Its cattle how season and King Edward doubt will repeat hs former pet pel as a a prize lIe J is an annual exhibitor at th St js show which Is just oVer this lIns iliad he never emerges without winning 15 or moro more prizes and selling most o of Ili exhibits thus proving his right to lo the tho title of The rhe Farmer Kin ICing Although King ICing George Ceole III was lev known to most o of his subjects as Farmer George the nickname was more the outcome of oC his dress dres and manners than the result of oC his Interest In agriculture With Ith King ICing Edward the tho contrary Is the case Altho Although Sh acknowledged ru as one o of th m best If not the best dressed man In England Englan he still fin finds s Inclination an antime and time to look after aCter time condition or his farms and to be represented at every Important show Th fact that he usually retires a heavy winner r Is Indication of the of his hb stock His successes success s have been so remark remarkably abl ably consistent that cynics are ure wont to shake their heads and attribute them to his august position as ruler of the tho tholand land nothing Is from rom the truth lruth The kings exhibits are submit submitted ted by the judges to the tho steno samo critical as tho those e of o the humblest farmer Canner and unsuccessful competitors have havo bath bech the first filst to acknowledge lh time superiority of the t e kings Icings cattle His majesty novel shows an animal he has not nol bred himself and the secret or of his success Is this thoroughness It I is 10 Sears ears since ICing Edwad took up farming seriously Ills IIII success was Immediate and a vogue In real southdown and shorthorns followed The fhe strain has hall never deteriorated amid toda today his s southdown and shorthorns arc ns as famous as ever Simmers ascending the throng weighty t of oC state stalo have stepped In to limit the tho time the king may 1113 devote to and agriculture hut but In of his mUltifarious engagements engagement lie he still man manages ages to continue to supervise the breed breeding ing of oC hit his stock In the tho da days s before ho he was called upon to bear bem the weight I or of the tho monarchy the king Used to de deVOle devote vote VOle his mornings to his Norfolk farms arms Sitting In his pleasant business moons at Sandringham he received and In hs Instructed his bailiffs and all others con cnn corned In the management of his farms farm which cover coer an area o of moro maIo than I three square miles let In spite of the tha kings minimized attention his S I II I are aro as remarkable as over ever t At t Smithfield he always scores a triumph generally averaging is 15 to 20 enviable record Under such conditions It Il Is not sur surprising surprising that there Is considerable corn com petition In the farming arming world In ord order I Ito to secure beasts which haVe been bred by the Icing A year ago one o of his shorthorn bulls Pride of after a short sharp battle between bidders was sold under tho for 01 the long price of 2100 This is but an Instance not a record Picked bulls from Crom among ansong his antl ringham shorthorns have hae lon long longheaded headed breeders to buy them for lOlls ous prIces Ono One such animal destined d fat Cor time tho cattle prairies of Argentina brought the enormous price of oC before the auctioneers hummer hammer fell and 1000 have mave also Iso ben b ems paid for or pedigree bulls from the kinks kings farm Carm of oC his ties tIcs Is the breeding or of shire horses In Inthis Inthis this he takes especial delight and the theres res justify his Interest Sonso Somo o of the finest examples of oC Amer Amel American Ican hoses horse have hae been bred from Crom Edwards stock There Is alwa always s keen competition when lies an any of the kings shire horses find their wa to theone the ring At one Aale 54 of his horses realized the high average ot of 1120 11 0 each which suggests time the excellence or of the tho animals for It Is proverbial that horse br breeders ers do not throw theIr mono money away awa The rho very closely follows follos the work of oC the timo Shire Horse society and r x X Xu XI XII u I II III tJ I I I t 1 WASH II fr r i iV f U Uc c Is a frequent visitor at time the ex exhibitions His display ot of technical knowledge when the horses are paraded ed ad before beCore hum him shows how keen an In Interest interest terest he hc takes In n that particular branch of the farmers work It was t a shire stallion of oC the kings I Itha that tha t won to his tit the I first prize In th the International Live i Stuck exhibition at Chicago I Icing Ed Edwards ards pride In his success successes s sIs Is little lot tOr be wondered at cs when one recalls the aril arid and neglected condition ot of the Sandringham San estate estale be befort fort fer the kung k took possession ot of It and ani commenced the apparently task of Its transformation In a report submitted to his majesty by a well vel known agriculturist occurs this state statement ment of fact it 1 s very barren balTen soil soli barely capable of oC cultivation and unlikely to repay repa the tho enormous labor necessary The testimony of oC Rider Ida nag gard himself one of thc greatest agricultural authorities In Great Greut Britain affords an interesting contrast It Is a wonderful farm says the novelist for or I Imagine that nowhere Is Isso isso so much stock to be seen scot upon time the same flame are area 1 at least in all m my journe throughout tic 26 G cOlin counties tics In of oC which I have examined time tho agrIculture I have not I found its equal A great dEal of title remarkable excel I lance lencl Is due clue to the kings treatment of oC oChi hi his servants There is so much consid so much and boO so boOm m much ch genuine interest or on the part ot of othis his majesty deal the they give glye him of their lest best In return And the kings treat treatment ment of cattle Is proportionately sympathetic s It Is one of his rules that no carriage or Cor draft horse which has been In ht his service and amI has passed the margin or of utility shall leave Il fl except through thOugh the kindly gate of at death Ho declines to allow them to be disposed of In a way which would leave their future treat treatment treatment ment a matter of uncertainty The Tho royal al horses therefore are aro kept until they are no longer fit for their duties and timers thel they the are arc put out of oC their ex stence In the most merciful and Iol manner mannel possible A As a rule a sl constructed mask Is adjusted b by means o of which a l powerful dose or of chloroform Is administered and the ani animal mal expires In a tew minutes quIte painlessly Urlah Robbins King ICIng Edwards herdsman herds herdsman man leas hal been In the kings service just 30 years lIe Ho Is a old tel fel fellow tellow low with a rosy rugged face fuce and seems born to crown n a smock frock lIe Is immense immensely proud of bf his royal masters record and at lust yen cole cele the fact that the king had fad won time tho sheep championship for three cess vo years rears by entertaining all the Smithfield shepherds to supper The king knows a good animal when he me sees secs one sa says s Unit Uriah and he cover looks look twice at al an one Although scarce scarcely comes the scope of the avera average e farm farmer er It II is Interesting to note nOlO that some of the finest kennels In time the country arc 1110 to be found on the Sandringham estate The Farmer King shows the same eal In br breeding and exhibiting thor thoroughbred dogs ns as he does doel In the moro more b byways S of farming T The e eking king rarely stirs abroad without III his little terrier but at Sand Ingham he Is much more ambitious No variety comes commes Ims In Its ken setters harrl rs deer deerhounds mounds hounds spaniels bulldogs St it Bernards New retrievers UX and Norwegian sledge doSS dogs and man many other lesser esser known hounds In hm this phase of hll its work as n a he has secured the of at Alexandra who often makes n a tout tour of the tho kennels ac accompanied companied b by servants laden with bas teis ot of biscuits and feeds the dogs Ith her own hands No monarch I the history of E ng g gland land and has butter earned and sustained his cis right to the tho title of Th The Farmer King Clog than th m Ed Eduard L J LEY und |
