STOCK INDUSTRY.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 12 January 1929, Page 8

STOCK INDUSTRY.

EWE SHOW AND SALE AT SOLWAY, MASTERTON. Full particulars ai’e now advertised of the offering at the third annual purebred ewe show and sale to be conducted by Wright, Stephenson and Co., Ltd., at the Solway showgrounds, Masterton. The judges this year are three South Island bleeders, Messrs John Miller (Mangatua), Alexander Murray (Clydevale), and Allan Grant (Willowbridge). After judging the respective sections, these gentlemen will co-oper-ate in awarding the Wright Stephenson Cup, now held by Mr. A. P. Southee, to the grand champion pen of the show. A feature of this year’s sale is the inclusion of the whole of the McGregor Southdown flock on account of Mr. Wm. James, who purchased this stud along with the estate about a year ago and has now decided not to continue as a breeder. This flock is undoubtedly one of the best Southdown studs that, lias been submitted to auction in the Dominion for very many years, and it has a very high reputation in Jhe'Wairarapa. POLLED SHORTHORN BULL FROM AMERICA. Wright, Stephenson and Co., Ltd., have just landed from quarantine and forwarded to Mr. Douglas Wright, of Windermere, Canterbury, a high-class two-year-old Shorthorn bull. Iliis is of the polled strain of Shorthorn cattle which has become so popular in the United States. Mr. Wright imported from that country some three years ago a foundation stud of this breed, and the latest importation, which is a very high-class roan bull, is by way of fresh introduction of blood to his herd, bulls bred in which have already been exported to New South Wales and Queensland.