A DOUBLE TEST.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1177, 12 July 1911, Page 10

A DOUBLE TEST.

i MUTTON TOK LONDON MARKET.' At tho last Waiißanui Agricultural Bh'ow nmongst classes for fat sheen, were classes B'.' lor the best pen of dive fat wethers. Down ur Down ero.-ses (short) to .lie killed, best miaptod for freezing, : 55 to 701b., hot weight, and class 81), beit pen :IiYO fat wethers, Lincoln, ltomuey, Leicester, or Merino cross (shorn), to be killed, best adapted for lreeziug, 55 to 701b. hot ivclglit. ': : In cla|s 82, pen 273, shown by Mr. G. :F. Moor'e, gained Ursfc award. In class 83, pen 281, ilessrs. iloore. Unas' entry gained , iirst award, pen 275 second award, and pen 280 a third award. The Wanganui '.freezing Company had th,e exhibits in these, classes consigned to their London agents and judged by a committee in London, viz., ALc?sr.v !ulofeld, Lisenden, Briginshaw, and Barton of the central markets, and Messrs. K. A. Harris and C(. 1 , . I'hipps, meat salesmen, and from their report it appears that the •pen which they place firsb is the' pen iivhich was placed first in class S2 by the jJocnl judges, whilst in class 83 the order ris slightly reversed, as tho award was J2Bl, first; London third; 275, second, Lonj.don first; 280 a, third; London second. (Although from a butcher's , point of view I]*?}' considered that pen 2SOa, awarded (third prize in their class, would suit (butchers requirements best, whilst 280 jand 281 a, neither of which pens gained ja local award, would come next in de--piand were the butchers the arbiters.