THE "FAKING "OF SHEEP.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1088, 29 March 1911, Page 10

THE "FAKING "OF SHEEP.

, CONSIDERATION AT CHRIST* ' CHURCH, At. tlie annual meeting of the New Zealand Sheep-Breeders'. Association at .Christchurch, iMr. H. D. Vavasour (Blenheim) moved "that no member of the association shall exhibit sheep at any show in the South . Island that are coloured, and all sfieep dipped within four lhonths of their exhibition shall bo deemed to bo artificially coloured. This shall apply to the Down breeds only." • In speaking to the motion, Mr.. .Vavasour said that the association should fall into lino with the views, expressed at tho annual meeting of the A. and P. Association last year. That association had issued.a general instruction that if judges awarded a prize.it was to bo their opinion that the sheep'were not artificially coloured. If a sheep was not worthy of being shown in its natural colour it was not worthy of being shown at all. He considered that colouring was tantamount to dishonesty, and it was the duty of tho Sheep-Breeders' Association to help the A. and P. Associations to stop tho practice altogether. Mr. T. S. Littlo contended that' the question was outside the sphere of' tho association altogether, and was a. matter entirely concerning the A. and P. Association. An army of. inspectors would be needed, and endless bother would be caused. Mr. H. V. Fulton pointed out that according to the Stock Act, sheej must be dipped in certain months of the year, and if tho proposal was carried, how were breeders to comply with the Act. The 1 motion was lost on the voices.