ABOUT LINCOLNS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 984, 26 November 1910, Page 21

ABOUT LINCOLNS.

AND AN EFFORT WITH ROMNEYS.

A GLANCE AT PENROSE

FAMOUS STUD SHEEP.

"Penrose" is a name withapleasant-' English Bound about it. It is tho sort of name a novelist missht choose for an old-fashioned English country home with gardens round about and rooks cawing in the elms. The Penrose' of which .'the writer has to tell does not belie 'its name. It liessome five miles or so out on tho main, road south of Masterton, and from tho road it stretches away on easy slopes to where the Waingawa River flows at the foot of tho hills on • tho far sido of the valley. Well in towards the centre of tho estate lies tho homestead whoso white walls and red roof show from afar off, and stand, in pleasing contrast to the greenery and bloom that surround them. A little way behind Mr. Perry's residence—for as no country reader of The Dominion" will need,to be informed, it is Mr. \V. Perry, and his" famous Lincolns and Romueys, that is boinn; described—rises a fine block of Native bush, some thirty acres in extent. This beautiful background, with the wido meadows around it, gives. to Penrose a character that is all its own.

ston Show, and left a lot ..of excellent stock behind him. Penrose V was unbeaten champion two years ago, and his progeny havo done more- to . lift the flock than that of any other emele ram during its whole existence. Rangatira, tho best ram at the. present time, is a son of Penroso V. He is one of: three'rams,' all of which" wore first prizc4akbrs - as" hoggets ■at the different shows last year, and the. least valuable of which fetched tho handsomo_ sum of 50 guineas. Rangatira possesses a denser fleece/ and will . i be..stronger again: in constitution than.," his sire. In, passing, it is interesting to' nota that ..the record fleece (twelvo month's, growth) obtained from the Perry Lin-' coins has run to.about 401b The wet ewes;of now clip an average or 141b. of clean wool, as against an average of 101b. eighteen or twenty years ago. As samples of what tho flock can grow, Mr. Perry showed tho writer sonio locks of his Lincoln wool, which ho got together in responso to a request from the Department of Agriculture. One, from a six-tooth ewe; : measured nine inches across by sis.. inches in length, and tho fibre when ex- • tended had a length of twelve. inches. Despite the increase of 40 per cent., in tho wool, Mr. Perry states that his flock has never been so strong in con- ' stitution as it is. to-day.! Mr. Perry does not favour very big sheep, and has aimed at breeding the Penrose Lincoln of medium length, short in the leg, and with a strong loin and a strong muscle —a typo that usually s carries plenty of muscle. Tho most remarkable feature of FeiK