“TWO=TON BARNEY”

Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 August 1940, Page 9

“TWO=TON BARNEY”

TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION. GIFT TO PATRIOTIC FUND. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH. August G. The best-known bullock in New Zeaand. “Two-ton , Barnney,” has been given by Messrs J. and F. Johns, Belfast, to the Patriotic Fund on behalf of the Union Jack Club, and will be * sold at the Addington sale. A big bullock presented by the same breeders for the Rde Cross Fund realised more than £5OO. “Two-ton Barney” was the bullock sent to Wellington for the Centennial Exhibition. He has been kept in prime condition during the winter, and of course, had been hand-fed. According to Mr J. Johns he has been groomed every day “to keep him happy.” It costs more than £1 10s a week to feed the big beast in the winter, but then he weighs about 28001 b on his feet He is fed twice a day, and this is what he has for breakfast: —Two buckets of oatsheaf chaff, 21b of crushed oats, 21b of bran, Jib crushed linseed meal, 101 b of chou moullier, 6 large mangels, 51b hay, 101 b ensilage. By tea-time he is as hungry as ever, and so the same menu is repeated. He is given whatever exercise is necessary to keep him in healthy condition. A big bullock needs more exercise than a little one, and likes it less. In view of his weight, he has to be kept on his feet as much as possible, and and for that reason he is not stalled, but is turned out on fresh ground.