BREEDING FAT SHEEP.
ARE THEY TOO HEAVY ? More attention should be paid by farmers to the weight of the fat sheep they breed, says a well known North Island • breeder. The present tendency, he says, is to get the sheep too heavy. A good freezer, he ’adds, should weigh about 6olb, whereas many of them nowadays go nearer 901 b. The mutton of a big heavy sheep is much coarser than that of the smaller type, and, according to the breeder in question, it does not command so good a price on the London market.
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Waipa Post, Volume II, Issue 84, 9 February 1912, Page 4
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