ROMNEYS.

Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 1289, 15 September 1910, Page 4

ROMNEYS.

NEW ZEALAND AND ENGLISH j liN ARGENTINA. J The success of Mr E. Short at the. ! Exposition International do AgricuJ- . tura of the Argentine, with his New Zealand Romneys, was a victory due , in a measure (says the New Zealand i Times; to superior generalship on the : part of the Feilding breeder, though depending ultimately on the superior character of his sheep in comparison ! with the local and English' exhibits, i English breeders wont to the great j American show in.furee and with the •determination to win. They were j equally determined, however, not to ; . meet the New Zealand Romney breed- ! ci', and set about achieving their object in a remarkable maimer. Know- j ing that no championships; were be- j ing offered in the Koinne.y section, \ they had classes provided i'or sheep ' born at such a dut<e that would exclude from competition colonial-bred i sheep, and offered a cup i'or conipe- 1 tition in tlie suction, but on such conditions that New Zealand .sheep could I not compete. i But they reckoned withouH- tbe keen i Parorangi breeder. Mr Short patron- j ised the Argentine Show for no other . purpose than to beat the English i Romney in open competition. Finding on his arrival at Buenos Aires j the strength of the position ihe imnie- i diately informed the show authorities j that lie would not exhibit unLess chain- i pionsips were provided in Tvliieli all j Romneys oil exhibition n-oukl be re- ( quired to compete. He gained the day, and the English breeders -were checkmated. Mr Quested, who led the English breeders, was clearly «mtgeneralled. * j The Home Romney wan particularly | well represented. True, Mr Chaiiles | File did not compete, but his brother 1 John did, as well as J. B. Palmea', ( If. Neame, and J. E. Quested. Mi: J Short had only two competitors in i the classes in which he was able to { exhibit —tills Campana Estancia Com- j pany and Cipriana 1. Newton. The I latter purchased the champion ram j of thi_ year's English Royal, and pur- I chased Mr Short's champion ewe pen ] at Buenos Aires—the champioushixjs .• went to pens, not to individual sheep.