THE LAMDS OF NATAL.
• 'It is .said that the "fat-tail" lambs of Natal—a result' of 'drosses;' native sheepT—are so':laden with' fat-in their, tails that this' organ is often cut off ■ by'- the butchers' and, the fat; retailed.as butter. "A New.,: Zealand .gentleman, intimately ' ' .connected "with."our frozen meat'trade, recently -visited tho. Sniithfield'; liiarkets, and. examined :tliese- : interesting creatures. . : The cn,counter was hot favourable. . Ho isays'.-that if these Sffat tail" lahibs ; aro Natiil's prime meat; - then'" lie ..can ..well'; understand- only New f Zealand's,- lean lambs: being wanted. ''Wo have no need,' , lie says, "to fear anything'that can come from- Natal for some time to come, to hurt the Canterbury lamb tfade." . - .. - . . -
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 188, 4 May 1908, Page 2
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