WILTSHIRE HORN SHEEP

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19532, 13 March 1926, Page 9 (Supplement)

WILTSHIRE HORN SHEEP

CONSIGNMENTS TO DOMINION. A London correspondent writes: “Two excellent examples of Wiltshire Horn sheep have been slaughtered for consignmcnt to the Department of Agriculture, Wellington. The idea of interesting New Zealand livestock breeders in the Wiltshire type originated with the Council of the Wiltshire Horn Sheep Society, of which Mr. Giles Randall is the chairman. Mr. Randall personally superintended the arrangements for the slaughtering of the sheep, and the freezing of the carcases which were sealed at Smithfield in the presence of a representative of the Trade and Prod uce Branch of the High Commissioner’s Department. One of the animals was a wether selected from a pen of purebreds which won the first prize at the Smithfield Show recently. It was born in February, .1925, slaughtered on December 11, and the carcase with head and kidneys registered the extraordin# ary weight of 13 stone. The other wether was also selected from a pen exhibited at the Smithfield Show. It was one of a group of triplets and the cross of a Wiltshire ram and a (’inn mountain ewe. It was born in April, 1925, and the carcase with head ami kidheys registered the weight of 10st. 71b. Both sheep were fed and exhibited by Mr. Clark Cooper, the noted Northamptonshire breeder of Shorthorns.