ON SHROPSHIRE SHEEP.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 694, 20 December 1909, Page 10

ON SHROPSHIRE SHEEP.

| A VERT INTERESTING LETTER. feiiji i%lsl-s^'i 7 [To tho :■! Editor.]" ■i :' :■,\r fv;-: --■ * Sir,—ln yotir r issue ol - Ivovemboiv' 23, 1' read great/interest i (m;,.tho~i farming ."a'ad* "com-. ■ pago),' an"-rtblo/article ; by : you ;on 'the W"./v ; :;;/;'rL i dpactiVoAzrierits ot'- ; Shropshire^ : und South- . fe|:Sj;iS6whfc ; tho ';bullc,' ot/that; article 1 'en-te|/|^jfely-"igree,;vbut ..;witk : / your statement that tjs^^>tho' ; lambs/maniro 'earlier/than the' fo'jV^i^Hiirojpsliirci. you must allow nie toi (lifter,/ as I /for.-- imly ; /maturity- :the';viihrop'-/ , ||^;06lyrcs:;>wilr>boat : The,;-: following. ' te:^afacts < in , ayjinterest;your readers, '"aiidiwill-speak ; thoms?lves/- .'v; '/ :.;// - ■'-/ ,'' -! put .100 threc-quartor-bred Shropshire owes,. Bipgf to/;bhropst>ire rams last fall; - they produced . • 107 lambs., . On 5 I. exhuntcd at p£";sj;;i;thu;:>larlboiough;Sliow.li.;bf-itie® k/^.-i?.^T:.3..pens>ot- ( 3,;.and:l. of .5, audtyok iali the first prizes// :When2 : Mlled,; iiv'craged ■■ Ct|;:'^ 4 ® lb - b i ll ' ; <:liei's of ;theui'; .beenla-.baro,,three-months old. pSM'^hfcbalauco'-of: the"lo7, r viz^93,-Jl-icouid-i not ' $ D \ -frozen 'tiU/Decembor/ld,' owing to jtKS'works billy Out/of the 93/1 sent 'leaving- oniy six out of the 107:; These •: L-*- I *' ' ' lamb? averaged 41.321!)., and tho' 12 heaviest - Ki-/-!i ' /weighed as -iollow: Ono .CO, ono 67, ono 56, ono |. • ; S5„ '-three 54, one 52, and four 51. The above ' s //;/.;/'; were, 'of - course,'/freezing weights, - : : ■ p V' : . On/the same . day I sent in •, W1 lambs, - taken pgg/from a mob of 7CU, leaving' 322 fit; /"These : i aycraged' 31.G51b;; '(freoziiig- - anil : were f . '-practically. rU first quality, and 'wero between ' 1. threo and three, and a half months old, and ; - - irom half-bred cull - ew.es, -by Shropshire - rams; ' -V-.foth. of above • mobs; of lambs were straight .their mothers; and : wero/grazed- entirely- ,. on. old pasture. 1 will yenturo to say that // -//these results can be .obtained by no- other Vw6rld.:"'i; :dai uot ; imauitain' that Wrv- R l ; ?" the", Shropshire cross /would bo :/0//tho;best, as/ihat would;be' absurd, l asa breeder ' y;t';?/ m , many things : - etc' ...-but, given fair conditions, I;-am 'satisfied/that . fei?:s-iP r . l^ e^l^J! '., o . r . small ewes .the Shropshire cross ■ ls ; toe, best, ; but for. coarse,' heavy ewes I• should ' g-;:;v;:flse_ the .bouthdown;/ -In;, every .case,. however,' 1 1 should give the Shropshire cross tho palm ;v- for. early : maturity. ■ : . fsoveral 1 fc^'iS-i^W 0 -'!? 11 :-studying tho .'meat trade,/and - mv' - in E-an>- interview : with tho . laad;'Associotcd'-?Press,vand published h -. - in the Nw Zealand papers.' .In that interview ! , one .of .tho. causes ; why at the Argentine. mutton * ' .the, /English mirket/tba® 1 'jj?'.;^ißentino ; was beti . {or. D"(l Fluff, by this I -mean' the balk l of it ; :- c rpss. complaint: -in 'Sniithfielcl ' \ v - b ? tt s r ', f;?!/-/ am " satisfied., thatto . again"', obtain i irood ''' |.v- . -prices,: brc-edew should -' homd ? titter ' ij.:a,:/i;.O i.e.,-yfijic ;. down '/their -heavy, coarse j:;. :,/ Stu(t ' ' by . U3 o'o£ Jown. rams.-I am, etc.! ' j ! ' H. D. VA'VASOUR.

f;• m. st-itntory meeting of the Hawera,Winter ' fep^iShoWVCompany:Vrill:held 'ort • }/.:'•'• -January 15, at 2.30 p.m. ~Th« oflioo of Mr;' A - ! ' ...CWoy is 'tho registered offico of the comj pany. ' * I Make poor land good, and good land better. FISON'S SPECIAL FEETILISEKS for-Tur. | nips and Eapo.--* '