JUDGING FAT LAMBS.
BLOCK TEST METHOD. (By Telegraph—Own Correspondent.) <yISBOItNK, this day. The block test method of judging fa<t lambs \\\m intr<Mlneed the Poverty Bay Show for the first: time in the Dominion. The exhibit ions created keen interest anions farmers. The results showed' a wide diver - jjencc from the placings on the hoof an<l the clatss providwl a most interesting lesion for fat lamb producer*. The winning lamb on the hoof was only sixteenth, with three others, when judged under the block test method. After all points had been taken into consideration the winning lamb on the hooks was unplaced on the hoof, ami the second on the hooks was not ?n the first three on the ground. The third on the hoof, however, wa-K equal third on the hooks.
The awards were:—\V. Allen 1, Miss M. AlexaikKt 2. H. <'. .Nolan a, Te Kara Farm
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 265, 9 November 1939, Page 20
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