CLUTHA SHEEP DOG CLUB TRIALS.

Otago Witness, Issue 2665, 12 April 1905, Page 32

CLUTHA SHEEP DOG CLUB TRIALS.

The sixth annual meeting of the Clutha Sheep Dog Club was held on Wednesday and Thursday on Mr Peter Murray's property at Barnego Flat, Balelutha. The weather on the first day was cold and boisterous, but this was compensated for by fine weather on the second day, and record entries rewarded the efforts of the club officials. The grounds where the trials were held are considered admirable for the purpose, the sheep being liberated on a ridge and the yarding being effected in a nice level paddock. Accordingly, onlookers arc enabled to view all the work done by jihe_

'in tho summer. The green food consisted of finely chaffed rape and lucerne, both splendid food';. The rape is the better alternative, while lucerne is the higher m food value, -o that the merits of the two given foods lie in different result-. This year the grain ration was composed of three parts wheat to one part maize, compared with three parts maize tc one part wheat la<-t year ; and while we hare no j wish to put the shortage of eggs compared with last year down to wheat-feeding, we have no hesitation in saying that if we had. fed more largely on maize we would have ha-d al leas* equal results, or even better. Shell grit anr] Fresh cleaxi water «<?re always before the hens. — Marketing the Eggs. — "The eggs were marketed in ordinary patent egg cases, holding 36 dozen, packed into cardboard fillers. The eggs were packed clean, without washing, tTie dirty ones being laid aside, also any that were