IMPORTANT PURCHASE OF HIGHCLASS RAMS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 894, 13 August 1910, Page 8

IMPORTANT PURCHASE OF HIGHCLASS RAMS.

;;r v ;;; ; ;/ a "coming" flock. ; -' V ■','.•".■'■'.;)• ■ ■.':■■-■■'/ ■■ ~ ,-;■'• • ■■'■• '' '■ .;.' ".'.". .Avflock.of which more-is .likely to be '.'/■'. heard in the near future :is that owned '■"" by■: Mr. , John A. Macfariane, of Ben. lo.■':;mond'Estate,''Hawke's Bay, N.Z. ' . We ■■V- : '-- ere. advised,-'-that recently .Mr." Haofa.rlo.no : :-:V effected ■an important purchase.of stud > ; '.' ■'. sheep' from ; Mr. Ernest • Short; of Paro- : ; : rangi, Teilding; the noted Eomney.b'reeder. '-.•■'.-. The lot-comprised one four-tooth ram and ' one six-tooth. ram ■of the famous "Becord" etrain.' Price, one hundred guineas each. "Those sheep cut 261b. and 271b.' wool re- .'■' epectively—enormous fleeces for/Jtoniney rams.. Mr. Macfarlahe also bought'2s stud : . ewes from the same celebrated flock at a long figure, but the" actual price' paid has not transpired. It may be remembered that the Ben Jjomond wool topped the - Napier sales in January last, realising the' splendid prices of U\i: for lambs' wood and lijd. for ewe wool, the former, we be- , . lie've, being among the highest, if not the ', highest price ever obtained for a similar ■:■; class, of wool/in New Zealand. Mr. Mac- : .■".' farlane is an enthusiastic believer in the ■'■•:': '■ merits of Qnibell's Powder Dip, of which '■"/.'•■. he ie a constant nser, and the results ho is obtaining are a safe criterion as to his ': .- .ctbility to judge of the.best Dip to use. *