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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 9080, 5 January 1893, Page 5

Some months ago the American Southdown Association issued a list of members, which now runs up to a very respectable total. The following reasons have been given for calling Southdown sheep the " best in the world" :—l. Because mutton is worth more than wool. 2. Because it la the best mutton; is the besb graded with fat and lean; is the juiciest and best flavoured. 3. Because the sheep is the earliest to mature. 4. Because ib is the most beautiful. 5. Because ib is as hardy as the merino. 6. Because it is the next finest wool to the merino. 7. Because ib herds in large numbers. 8. Because it makes more meat to the acre than any live stock. In many parts of: America a ton of flax seed is sold as ' low as a ton of flax mnal having the oil extracted, and a question has arisen whether cattle would thrive as well on the pure meal, containing 37 per cent, of oil, as when the oil is absent. This the lowa Agricultural Experiment Station has attempted to solve by a series of feeding experiments with cows. Ten were taken, tied up, and fed with a similar ration, save that five had flax seed ground by a grub mill into meal, and the other an equal quantity of exhausted meal. .' At the end of 51 days both lots eab daily 81b of either, but the whole meal cows could nob sat any mora than Blb per day, although it was the moab palatable. The grain in weight was ' practically similar, so that where * a ™? ecß 1 have flax seed as an unsaleable product they may safely use it fat feeding. :