IMMATURE LAMBS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 36, 6 November 1907, Page 2

IMMATURE LAMBS.

A NORTHERN ERROR., WHY "PRIME CANTERBURY" LEADS. A prominent Wairarapa stock agent in formed our representative that bo thought that many of the North 'Island farmers frequently made a mistako in soiling their lambs before the animals were in a proper condition. The practice seemed to be, ho said, to rush the stock to the buyers fully a week or' a fortnight in advance of the time; whereas judicious "topping off'' would have resulted in an increased price, running into perhaps Is. Gd. to 2s. 6d. per head. Other meat buyers, with a considerable South Island experience, expressed the same opinion, and contended that this was 0110 of the reasons of the superiority of " Prinio Canterbury." In the South Island there wero not many examplos of farmers selling beforo their stock were fit for the market. It was not considered a proper tiling to do; while in tho Wairarapa and Bush districts the roverso was the case, ana stock which should have boon branded " rejects" wore railed continuously to the moat works, when they should have been drafted into fattening paddocks.