FLOCK SHEEP PRIZE LISTS.
'■ y ; ; ". iTo tux. Editor.) .■'.'..' . • S i. r 'Tj n yo , llr issl,e ° f Sa'tiirSoy .last your report, through the-farming'cdluiiiii; '"particulars »■'» letter received by the-secretary of - tho teildmg A. and P. Association, with reference to tne.cominitWsactioil iiireducitig tho prize list for Hock sheep, i.e., other than '• pedigreestuds. .- And, liKCoiiclusion, Stato that' • "subsequently., the committee passed -the following' re'solution:'.vlhat recommendation to theuicoming committee that flock ranis bo reinstated in the prize schedule"'.' :i I think,sir,.that J may bo pardoned for saytug that Ihis is. ft'most,regrettable retrograde movement, and I trust that the incoming comwell before they entertain 'the suggestion. For what can bo more detrimental to the interests, of stud., breeders,-'or graziers generally, than,tho encouragement such inducement affords for farmers to breed '"mougrels" • ri lllß market with these injurious ?t es /-,'They are injurious, because of the rej,that a halfbrnd ; or : crossliad.' at'
any description's most unreliable in propagating its individual qualifications, often throwins back-to sire or dam or other nondescript. However desirable it may-lie; ; and is,;to encourage the exhibition of results in crossing one purebred typo with another, it is. certainly most injurious for an A. and P. Association to perpetuate the folly of permitting a continuance of "mongrel" male classes in order to gratify thewishos.of a few local farmers, who might possibly have assisted in the: inauguration of their society,—l am, etc., ' ■...-• KF-NT.
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 622, 27 September 1909, Page 10
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227FLOCK SHEEP PRIZE LISTS. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 622, 27 September 1909, Page 10
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