ROMNEY MARSH SHEEP.
AN IMPORTANT CONSIGNMENT. An English exchange says that the shipment of twenty-four ew;s and one ram from Jlr. Arthur Finn's fleck, AA'esrbroke. Lyild, to Messrs. ■ Jl.ichel.-xm and Co., of ,-Auckland, New Zealand, -completed the. most important consignment of that breed which has ever been shipped to New Zealand. During the past . fifteen months Mr. Arthur Vina has dispatched to New Zealand no fewer than seventy-six picked, s?kctcil owes from his grand flock, which was founded in the year 1770. Theso wore accompanied bv four rams, specially selected by Mr. Finn for their typical eharnctortistics, even fleers, and good wool. The twenty-four ewes last shipped, accompanied bv a ram bred by Mr. \V. M. Cazalet, are probably .tlis, pick of the whole consignment. These ewes, born in the year IDK>. were specially mabd. previously to shipment, to a ram that Air. Arthur Finn selected himself as a stud sheep. This fine ram, which lias been in ssrvic?. in the AVostbroke flock, was bred bv .Mr. K. Si. Strotils, owner of floelc No. Mi, and was the get of a nun bred by Mr. F. Neanio, of Macknade, Faversham, nut of a ewe bred bv -Mr. ■]?. S. Strouts, by Air. Ci. Farmer's No. 4 of 1901.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1404, 2 April 1912, Page 8
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207ROMNEY MARSH SHEEP. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1404, 2 April 1912, Page 8
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