Ambassador 8s A Bit Of A Farmer
Lord Inverchapel, Britain’s Ambassador to Washington, told a meeting of sceptical mid-western farmers that ha was a bit o£ a farming man himself. Their doubts began to break down when he revealed that he had 2000 sheep grazing on 3000 Argyll acres in the Scottish Highlands. The farmers were convinced when Lord Inverchapel broke into Scottish sheep farmers’ vernacular. Americans, he said, called a ram a buck, but in Scotland it was a tup. A hog is a young sheep from the time it stops being a lamb. After shearing, the she hog becomes a gimmer—until it becomes a ewe. If after tupping she does not lamb, she is called a yill grimmer—an ignoble status in the sheep world where motherhood is highly prized. Among the males, a tup hog which does not mature into a super hog becomes a diment (a wether). If a tup hog is distinguished he is promoted to the rank of tup or buck.
Mr W. W. Freer. M.P. for Mt. Albert, was a visitor to Whangarei today. Mr Freer is spending a holiday at Kaikohe. .
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Northern Advocate, 6 January 1948, Page 5
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