PEDIGREE STOCK.

Waipa Post, Volume II, Issue 64, 24 November 1911, Page 4

PEDIGREE STOCK.

'• COLLEGE . - IMPORTS, , Particulars, to hand from the south regarding the pedigree sheep and a bull —imported frbm,England'Jn the Re--muera f for ij£incol n Ccjtege in dieate that the |heep jnclu i ae Border ,Leice||ers frcfm of Mr Jeffries,’ r of Duchrae, -who gained . the highest price at the Border i ; Shropshires.from ■ ithe/flock of Mr Minton, of Mont-.j ; tfdrd’;'. and Sputhdowns from the* . • estate of the late Colonel McCalmont, of.'Newmarket. -The bull . ? is|?an 18-riionth-old' d.ark - red Shorthorn, .- Broadhooks Stamp, Special Stamp,' 100,731,’ dam I Blbadliooks-r:Beauty. was | defected, for the .Department-, byLMr J. S.; Gordon, t Chief Inspector of the Departih'enkdf Agriculture, Ireland. The mgaC arrival’s dam sold for 100 grtmeas at the dispersal sale of the Jate Sir Hugh Smiley’s herd. Tricing his ancestry back he is found to combine a fashionable pedigyee with a good milking strain. Hh was Kilacoona, Bally bruck:; Dublin, ' who,- 'according to the “ Press,’’ is an ardent:believer in general purpose brefds, and I while,- he ypujtehaspsy only the no herd that could iry herctr The

Wrench herd is recognised as one of the best in the United Kingdom, and young bulls from the herd have been sold at long prices for exportation, and for bulls in neighbouring herds.