Kent Sheep for New Zealand.

(DnnediriStar.) Mr Robert Cobb's sheep-buying-cum-holiday-making sojourn in the-Old Country is nearly at an end, and himself and wife shortly leave for the colony. Mr Cobb has been very successful in securing rams from the leading Kent and Romney Marsh breeders ; and, in order that the Kentish farmers might learn something of New Zealand's requirements in the way of stud sheep, he submitted himself to the interviewer of the "Kentish Express." The meeting took place at Whychurch, where Mr Cobb's brother Arthur occupies a farm. The reporter, after introducing his willing victim to the reader, proceeds to describe the sheep submitted to his inspection, and which will shortly be placed on board ship for New Zealand. Mr Cobb, he says, first brought together a pen of five rams he had purchased from Messrs Neame (of Macknade), Millen (of Faversham), and Gambrell (of Folkestone). They were all excellent sheep ; Mr Neame's particularly. It had a head wide across the forehead, not too short, and well set 011 a neck very muscular and broad .it the base ; a fine bold eye ; magnificent chest; loins deep and well covered ; thighs wide and well let down ; and legs showing great strength of bone and muscle. Its great point, however, was its absolute evenness of fleece. The wool was of equal density and fineness pn the shoulder, rib, thigh, and back, and across the loins and rump, where it is frequently thin and faulty, while the under part of the belly was well clothed almost across. There was also absolute freedom from an intermixture of hair or "kemps" with the wool. The other rams were as good in regard to fleece, although they did not quite equal Mr Neames' in strength and symmetry. Mr Ccbb next took his interviewer to a pen of rams he had selected from the wellknown Romney Marsh flock of Mr James Chettender, of St. Mary's. These rams were somewhat finer in the bone than the specimens before examined, but tljis is a characteristic of the true Romney Marsh type, and, as Mr Cobb said, they would possibly make better two-year-old sheep than the others, as they were bona fide grass-fed, and had not been forced in any way. They were good in the style of head and wool. The remainder of the, interview is chiefly concerned with an explanation of why the breeds of sheep very often in favor with the Home farmer on account of their fattening qualities are not of the slightest use to New Zealanders on account "of the unevenness of the wool.