Australian Ram

Press, Volume CV, Issue 30977, 5 February 1966, Page 9

Australian Ram

FTHIS imosing Merino ram has been imported from Australia by Mr J. R. Todhunter, of Cleardale, Rakaia Gorge. JC and S 188, it was purchased for 1250gns at the Royal Adelaide ram sales from John Collins and Sons of Collinsville, Mount Bryan, South Australia.

Twenty-one Collinsville rams sold at this sale at prices ranging up to 6500gns realised 39,560gn5, or an average of 1884gns each. This was not far short of half the total proceeds of the sale of 193 rams at auction. A Collinsville ram has brought the record for a Merino of 12,500gn5.

Aged about two years and three months, the ram that

has come to the Rakaia Gorge shore 32ilb of wool before it left Australia. Mr Todhunter said the ram grew a fiveinch staple of medium to strong combing very soft handling wool.

Another ram—an aged ram which has been used in the Collinsville stud—also came at the same time for Mr Todhunter. The rams travelled by sea.

Mr Todhunter’s father, Mr R. C. Todhunter, who had the Blackford stud, first went in for Collinsville rams in 1924, and Mr J. R. Todhunter, who took over the top ewes at the dispersal sale of his father’s stud, bought another Collinsville ram early in 1960.