ON SHROPSHIRE SHEEP.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 696, 22 December 1909, Page 10

ON SHROPSHIRE SHEEP.

' ! '(To^th'e'EditorO ■;'■; ; .f \ ;■■ ; ; -' ■.•Sir,-rMr. ; H; -D.: Vavasour's "letter , .' in: this is; not. only : state'r;bttt ,i highly ':■ instruc'Byoj .and .1 hope, will; get' wido. publicity. '/I'his ■'famous'breed of sheep—the; Shropshire—has re-' I'iejyed of late years suoh. scant recognition'at the hands of tue'sheep farmers and; ftit-lainb raisers in general;- throughout • New-Zealand. i-that,,mony-rlikaanyself .for one-^.wpnder. whyits'•merits. b.avo»been so long obscured;. It may be .that in :; tlie'.tliands of so;few breeders,.'■ as' has'been thevca)e-'ip.the past, it,. perhaps, has ■not ;.been k adverfis'e'dv or ■ brought out in the showyards—in tho.'JSortli Island, in .particular —like!other,breeds,'tha-Koniney Marsh, for;inistance, whose.breeiiers.deserve,all they can get,'not- only,-for.', the {way they; have -brought it' into such a- highfstaadard of'-excellence,.'but also for the- admirable way thb executive ..of their: private', llpckvbook: manages its.-'.'affairs.' ■Still,•■ Mr. VaVasbuT's valuablo testimony as to• ftmSfeitbJiVShropshllßS.:are::doing ; -fpr him—and , mentions,. under ordinary, condifanning—together; with some priced" paid for these Shropshire : ; raras»in''ithis. North Island, the demand this : year',.'ui 'all"parts for. dock rams/ and the 'iiicreased- exhibits last.season at. many: of the. : 'shb\i;s—^almerston'"' for 'one—points to. the. iShrbpshii'e'"'cbniing into his.own" again, especially, i-wheni b'is is so proven, as in by a.practical farmer and ii'fa't-lairib'Tais'er.—l'am, r etc, '."•• :■. '■ ■■'.■ ■'■ !;'?";-V' ; 'S^r^,;. : '$F-~:\: : : :: ;SHEOPSHIEE.- ; [;i:7\Vairaraiw;;December;2o.; ' .;,;:.- : ,'■~;