IMPORTED PRIZE SHEEP.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 617, 21 September 1909, Page 8

IMPORTED PRIZE SHEEP.

'-:'::?:<' y.:-- MASTEETON.:>:; ./':..-:'/■> ;;.;.- The discharged.;at'; Wellington on .. : Priday : five:stud, 'Shropshire-Down.rams, con;;.signed to'Mr.-A;- J.; Cooper, Masterton,. They i'.'■Jwere'fio'm':-.the.-Melbourne; Eoyal Show, where just. : been ; .shown. Thoy included ohb ;;;:iou'r-tootli; :br<wLb/:'A.'.E._Mniisell, Mt;..Vernon, : :TasmrJiia',' iwhich'yv'pn- third' prize ; in,its' class, ;.-'.■: at -' the Melbourne - Show,': and, was.: only. beaten .:, by two .'of, Mf;;,-Mahseirs r 6wn;Bheep','.'ona of ;;'; which; was awarded first,, -special and champion, ; I'tpjl-was sold aftef:;the 6how,- : for: : 62-guuieaa.

mnkingthe highest price at the sales. - The shipment, inoliided also a'pair of ram hoggets, bred by, Air. 6. Sirabnds, Stonor, Tasmania,'one of which : was placed first! at. Sydney Eoyal in June in a pen of three. Tho other was first as a'single hogget at the same show, and highly commended m Melbourne.', The remaining ,two, :which are hoggets, bred by H. R. Oldmeadow, Tasmania, won second : prize.' as a;.pair in. Melbourne!.' Sheep.-from the :01dmeadowa flock.won the 75-guinea challenge'cup for the best two- owes, and a.ram under -18 months .atthe Melbourne .Show.; Both champion- and reserve champion tickets in rams and ewos'also went to Mr. Mansell and Mr. Oldmeadows, so that Mr. Cooper's purchases come from the: best blood in Tasmania.. The sheep were selected for Mr. Cooper in Melbourne by Mr. H. H. Peck, auctioneer of the firm of Peck and .Sons, who isono of the best Shropshire authorities; in I 'Australia. The sheepi'''ware consigned through the New Zealand Express Comriany. ,"