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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 984, 26 November 1910, Page 20

Messrs. Booth has been to stick to one breed—Romnoy Marsh—and a type of medium wool >has been grown for years, and has always gono to America. In consequcnco of the uniformity of typo that has been gained-by sticking consistently to the Romneys for so long there has- been no ■ difficulty in selling cast-off ewes, and there has been: no classing needed amongst tho sheep bred on the placd.; Lambs' wool from,Mid-' die. Run realised Is. 2d.' per ]b! on the London market last March. ..y ' A stud Romney Dock was established somo years ago,, and now,numiers over 100 ewes, Stud rania have boon secured from time to time from Messrs. Rid-1

Besides the stock on the run, sheep and-lambs are-bought to fatten, on rape. . ■ ■ ■ . ' Tho autumn-sown oats are always a good crop, but the spring sowing does not compare so favourably with autumn. ■Wheat has boon grown, but is not so profitable year in and year out as oat«.' Of these, Algerian and Sparrowbills Bii tho varieties -mostly grown. A' stock' of Gartbn prolific gray oats (a 'new: sort) is being worked up from imported seed. Rust has not troubled, thou-ih caterpillars were severe last year. Not so much oats.are grown as in tho past as rape and turnips'for the fattening and keeping of lambs have-been more 'profitablo.-:'"'' ■;" /. ■ . ./ ■■.■■