SUFFOLK SHEEP

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 258, 29 July 1939, Page 4 (Supplement)

SUFFOLK SHEEP

New Strain For Fat Lamb Trade The arrival of the Waifaki at the Bluff recently with a consignment of Suffolk sheep from Victoria was of considerable interest to Southland breeders who are at present developing sheep studs, specially for breeding sires for producing suitable lambs for the export trade. With the arrival of this shipment of over 40 sheep, it is understood that there are today more Suffolks in Southland than in the rest of New Zealand. The importation was arranged through the stud stock department of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., and included 30 Suffolk ewes and One ram hogget bred by the State Research Farm at Werribee, Victoria, on account of Mr. J. F. Scott, and 10 Suffolk ewes and one ram which have been purchased by Mr. John T. Gibb. The interest which is being shown by Southland breeders in this breed which has increased rapidly in popularity in Australia during recent years, and is well known in the United Kingdom, indicates, a desire by New Zealand breeders to keep abreast with developments abroad in the fat lamb trade.

A special corrimittee drawn from the North Otago A. and P. Association and the Farmers' Union has been set up to arrange a memorial to the late Mr. James Little, the originate, and founder of the Corriedale breed of sheep. The memorial is to be erected in blue stone at the sheepyards at the Corriedale Homestead, North Otago, at a cost of approximately £3O.