STUD SHEEP.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 59, Issue 44, 1 December 1938, Page 8

STUD SHEEP.

RECORD SHIPMENTS GO ABROAD. NEARLY 5000 FOR JAPAN. Business in the export trade contin-

ues to extend, and the number of countries to Avliieh slock have been exported this year is probably a record. Japan, Australia and South America still figure as extensive buyers. .Shipments to Japan for the year Avere recently completed, the total number falling just slightly beloAv 0000 head, Avhich is an easv record for number and value taken

bv any one country in a year previously. The total purchases of Corriedales comprised .‘k°»7o one-sherfr ewes, 1270 ewe hoggets, 171 stud and selected oneshear rams, and 100 older ewes. These sales were completed through the joint agency of Messrs Dalgety and Co. Ltd. and Messrs Wright Stephenson and Co.

Ltd. Other countries to which Corriedales have been exported this season by the latter firm also include the United States, Canada, Chili, Peru, Uruguay, Argentina, Australia, Patagonia and the Falkland Islands.

A recent shipment to South America included four-tooth rams in the top class from the Bushev Park Estate for Patagonia and for ,the Argentine, and two outstanding ram hoggets for the latter country. These were all individually selected for use as top sires in noted South American flocks. Another consignment from the same stud destined for South America, included a stud ram hogget of excellent type and three stud ewes of a type suitable to mate with this ram. A consignment of ten stud ram hoggets from Bushey Park were also made recently to Peru.

Recent sales also made to Australia include the four-tooth ram which was second in his class for the Bushey Park Estate at both the Royal and Canterbury Shows. A substantial price was paid for this ram by his purchaser, Mr Archer, of Tasmania. This well known judge also purchased a Corriedalc ram hogget from Mr William Anderson, Waiau. stud, North Canterbury. This was a ram of exceptionally good conformation and carrying a good even fleece. Corriedafes from Canterbury flocks recently shipped by Messrs Wright Stephenson and Co. Ltd. included an outstanding four-tooth ram and a ram hogget from the Estate late H. T. Little, Hui Hui, to the Argentine, five ram hoggets to Uruguay, a small consignment of ram and ewe hoggets to the Falkland Islands, and from the Rakaliuri flock of Mr Hugh Elisor an outstanding four-tooth ram for Uruguay. Shipments of Lincoln rams to South America made recently included 15 ram hoggets and four one-shear rams from Mr E. T. Wilton, Rangitumau, Masterton, to the Argentine and three oneshear rams and two ram hoggets to Uruguay. These included some outstanding sheep and the whole consignment was noteworthy for the type, wool-covering and good heads of the rains.

A further consignment of six Lincoln one-shear rams was also sent forward from the Gisborne breeder, Mr G. V. Smith, of Waitaria. Sheep from this flock are also popular in South America. Amongst this excellent selection of sires was one of quite outstanding merit with a grand head and. an impressive general appearance. Recent shipments to Australia have included 40 Southdown ewes from the Wairarapa flock of Messrs A. and J. Gray. This good line of young ewes went to a client in West Australia. A line of 50 Romney ewe hoggets, a very typical lot, have also been sold for shipment to Tasmania. These are from Mr R. Oakley’s registered flock, Mayfield, Canterbury.

A notable sale of selected Rye!and rams has also been made to a client in New South Wales. This man who is breeding extensively has placed an annual order for 1.00 rams of this breed. Fifty have been secured from Mr T. A. Stephens, Inveil, twenty from Mr Joseph Brooks, Brookside, and thirty from Mr Bayly Withel, Ealing. Another important sale of Ryelands recently made to New South Wales to establish a new flock is the complete breeding flock comprising approximately fifty ewes and one hundred per cent of lambs of Messrs Voss Bros., Karere, Palmerston North. Messrs Voss Bros, are giving up the breeding of Ryelands and in future will concentrate on Romneys of which they have one of the most extensive flocks in New Zealand.•and on Lincolns, having recently established a flock of the latter breed. Last year, buyers from South Australia dealt extensively in New Zealand fat lamb breeds and many of the lines bought here which it was stated when purchased were required to establish new studs with, were turned over at big profits. Mr R. M. Perry, the well known Wairarapa Southdown breeder, not only sold his ewes for export for this purpose but met the buyer to the extent of holding the ewes and putting them in lamb only to see them resold on arrival in Melbourne at substantial double figure prices. This year, through Messrs Wright, Stephenson and Co. Ltd., Mr Perry has sold his line of 60 ewes direct to a well known Victorian breeder at a substantial price. These ewes are all sired by the great breeding ram, Ford Christian, and his sons, and are a grand line. A new market recently found for Southdowns overseas is in Queensland, a trial shipment having been purchased by a big grazier in that State. An excellent line of .ram hoggets has been selected to fill this order by Messrs Wright Stephenson and Co. Ltd. from the Manawatu flocks of Messrs J. A. Russell, Palmerston North and J. A. Mitchell, Longburn, and‘it is anticipated that these will prove an excellent advertisement for the Dominion in the northern State of the Commonwealth.