"POPOTUNOA" STUD

Otago Witness, Volume 06, Issue 2899, 6 October 1909, Page 9

"POPOTUNOA" STUD

REMARKABLE SUCCESS AT SOUTHI ERN SHOWS.

The name of Mr J. R. Mackenzie, of Clinton, is one which, in the pastoral and j agricultural world, is synonymous with highclass stock of every breed in which he is interested, and during the past season (1908) hi« enterprise has been rewarded by scoring one of the most remarkable records of success evftr achieved by an individual exhibitor with a similar "number of exhibit* in th<» sheep section at the Otago and Southland shows. At the la«t Dunedin show, with only five sheep on exhibition, he annexed three fir3t I prizes, one second, and one third prize, j besides f h/» championship c or rams and the ! New Zealand Romney sheep-breeders' shield. At Gore show he had both champion ram and ewe, besides other prizes, and at the Southland show, Invercargill. he secured two firste, a second, and a third — truly a splendid achievement, when it is remembered that some of the best Romney cheep in the Dominion wer« competing. It may be mentioned -that at Gore and Invercargill hoggets only were exhibited by Mr Mackenzie, which makes his record all th.> more remarkable. "Writing on March 8, 1909, re the above, Mr Mackenzie states: "All these were dipped in QuibciLs', and my Dunedin champion ram had one of the prettiest fleece* one could wish to see on a sheep. . . A good dip does wonders." We wou'd point out that Mr Mackenzie's opinion of the superiority of Quibell'g Dip as an improver of the growing fleece is exactly on a par with those of the world* most famous pastoralists, who have tested it on level terms against all other sheepdipping preparations.

The schnapper is a variety of fish seldom found in southern waters, but Mr Pomeroy, of Invercargill, received two from Pallia on Wednesday. So few have ever been taken in Foveaux * waters that Mr, Pomeroy has only known ono other. during the course of his 28 yeara' experienced They are a ehort, broad fish weighing from 6lb to 81b, and are usually obtained in warm water* like those in the iwigfcbourhfcod »f Auck- ' land or Australia.