WAIRARAPA STUD FLOCK

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10476, 13 November 1911, Page 4

WAIRARAPA STUD FLOCK

sJHE SUCCESS OF "PENROSE."

The Lincoln stud flock of Mr Wdliiam Poury, of '-Penrose," Ma&teriton, holds an unique record as far os the Lincoln breed of sheep in the pominion is. concerned'. Ma* Perry Jitts for pome years been engaged in Jmfilding up has stud, and' he can. siow dbim that ait is without compeer in New Zealand. Hi? six-tooth ram "Rangitira" has this seiason appropiriated tliie championships at Hastings and Palnierston North, *uid lioldis an unbeliteoi record. Last year he was first in the flour-tooth doss at Hastings, Paiknejistow North and Qk-istchureh, wMle m -the pre-' viio,us year, as a iilogget, he took fu-sit hoi tours at Pttilin'&r&ton. A son of "Rangitira". was awarded first |i|laoe at Hastings tMs suasion, and vMr Perry considers that this nam lis the finest specimen of /the breed the has yet produced. It is interesting to note that "Rang&tfcraV jfleece tlnis year turned the wale at 381bs. Bis sire, "Penrose V.," had a splendid record in .the isibow ring, •being eSlampalon at almost every /place at whicli he was shown. The jSJrandnsire, "Pemro.se H.," was alsD iiSgjuiy siucoesisful, being champion on several occasions. It will thus be *een that "jtangitira" and bis progeny come from, a strain w&ioh has an almost unbroken record. • Pour rains of the "Pe!nroise" strain have juefc been sold to a weli-knowa- breeder of New South.Wales'.at a satisfactory figure, and will be sEfipped in the course of a few. days. This demonstrates that tihe reputation of the stud,is not confined alone to the Dominion. Mr Perry can claim th'e dEstinotion, also, off heing the only diualbfreeder in tie Southern Hemisphere to sweep the board with two of the leading breeds of sheep. Be did tMs with English < Leicestters . and Ljncolnjs on one occasion, aaid he 'has now 1 succeeded' in doing, so with his Rommey® and Lincolns, in two successive years. His Rfcwmney •Marsih champion, "Premier Lad," appnopatiated the blue riblbton at bkxtii Hastings and Patoaerston shows this year as a four-ltototh. Last year, as a hogget, he, won firfet an his class at Hastdgis., Pahnerkton North and Ohiristehjuroh. His sire, "The Premier," .wiho ha«i not been shorn this season, was. champion at Hastings and Palmerston last yeair. He oomes> Prom, the beet /strain'of Mr A. Matthew(s'' Wlaiorongomai stud. Another son of "The Premier" was fiVst at Haisftdngsand Pa&merston ttaia year as. ( a hogget. "Pa-ember Lad" has rer cently been shorn, and Ms fleeoe j turned' the scale, at 261b(8.

It is Baitdsfactory (to note tiha.fc the Jaimiand for 3Hir Berry's Romney ramis is as been a® tihat for. Ms lihcolhb<, amd it speaks* volumes ifor ibhie* Wiairaa-apia, as it does iflar the inituitdon of the breeder, itnat some of the finest ranis in th*© Southern Hemis-" pbere are produced at "Penrose."