A SPLENDID IMPORTED BULL.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 995, 9 December 1910, Page 8

A SPLENDID IMPORTED BULL.

TfOW AT SOMES ISLAND. ■ -i ; 'fArshort. time ago" : there was published ; ..'thbShejVs-of' tho, death'of. Jlr: G:< C. ■;• "Wheeler's imported .bull, "Eaton States- '.■ man,"'but,-nothing daunted by this mis- :•. fortune,' Mr. Wheeler at once cabled... to - Mr.' l .Jiiines Stuokey for another,- with : ■ the result that "Fronie Ringer" (27,565), '-. bred : sy'ffl. Griffiths, of Alderscnd, Torringtan.'ias now.arrived at Wellington, 's an'd*^is 'at 'present in-. quarantine on ;. .Sojhcs'-Island, previous-to taking- up bis .;•<'abode"; at.-, Buri'ord.' . His sire, "Royal .-. ;Kinger,v'.whose photograph in the fortieth' i^yoluino. l of. the English Herd.Book in- :.-' dicates' that he: is one 'of- the grandest :V of jbulbs in .appearance, is now one of the ! leading'sires at Homq, and apparently ;'.' Mr., Wheeler's purchase is a . very fine ;' Bnimal..i.indeed. '/When' weighed two '•"■ months'iago (being then 20 months, old), y. he; made no less than 18761b., and is v--:»i'd:' : 'tb''..-.b6 by far the niost expensive '- v young.'Hereford that has ever been in- ;';', troduce'd into New Zealand. On his dam's , side', ; ho ..als'p comes of a great prizc- •' ■-• winning'-family, a"s his grahddam was by .-a ;,soh' -of.' Maidstone, who was never ;• beaten in the English show-ring, and his ~ great>gra'hddani was by Hilarity, one of . theybestistdek-getting .sons of' tho world-';-"'.faiaous ."Grovo. 3rd.".' "Fronio Einger" -v. hiirisolf ■ as. a- yearling w ; on- the first prize ;V. at.,-^Hereford-'. and .■ [ Worcester shows; > -first; prize, at' Leaminster, arid, second ..■-prize'."at .the -Royal.Agricultural Show in •■; liUO,.'thus following closely in the steps "- ofi other's of; his strain.' Apart from the •,V;prize-winning.-abilities, of ; himself and ''■'■ Lis .'fb-fefathefs, "Frome• Ringer" 'brings •■.:to;New Zealand what is so -much in re- .. quest'-.among breeders at\present, namely, a .complete: new strain'of blood, and of ,'-. .■ the -very best of English blood at that.