SCOTCH BLACK-FACED SHEEP.

Otago Witness, Issue 2811, 26 August 1908, Page 8

SCOTCH BLACK-FACED SHE EP.

There arrived by bh« Shaw-Savill liner Mamari at Lyttelton on Hie 20th inst. a small shipment of Scotch black-faced sheep, consisting of four owos and two rams, consigned to Mrs Townend, of Glenmark, North Canterbury.' The manager of the trlenmark Estate, Mr T. 8. Johnstone, having a fancy to stock the park at Glenmark with Scotcb black-faces, arranged for this impoibarion through Messrs Dal- , gety and Co. These aro the first sheep of \ the breed be come to the Australian co!o- ; nies, and, we think, tho first to cross the ! lino. They were bred by Mr Adam Archibald, Overahiele, Stow, Midlothian, ono of tho oldest and most successful breeder? of thi« class of ebeep in Scotland. Overshiels occupies a very bigh and exposed situation, some 20 miles south of Edinburgh. At tho Royal English show recently hold at Newcastle an Overshiels-bred ram was third in the aged okss, and be was the eire of the first prize wet ewe and graudsir« of tile first shearling ewe that also gained the oTia-mpion as beet female of. -th« breed. Ik ia the extreme hardiness of these ebeep that *nakes them co eminently suited t< withstand the severe wint<?rs often ex- •

perienced in the mountainous districts of Scotland and the North of England, and it is -estimated that two-thirds of the entire eheen stock of Scotland consist of the •black-faced mountain breed, while they produce mutton, of the very finest quality procurable in Britain.