ROMNEY MARSH BREEDERS

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1482, 3 July 1912, Page 10

ROMNEY MARSH BREEDERS

CONCERNING THE FLOCK' BOOK. Tho full terms of the motion regarding tho reopening of the Flock Hook, •iM.ved by Mr. \V. J. Birch, of Thoresby, Marlon, at tho annual meeting of the luimney Marsh Sheep Breeders' Association, at Palmerston last week, were:— "That the council be recommended to take steps to ammul Kulo 10 so as to permit the entry of flocks other than th?se already entered in tho Association's Flock Book; provided that they have been already registered in other recognised Flock Books, and lift subject to inspection and recommendation by tho committee of the association." Tho fact is, Mr. Birch explains, that several liomuey flocks in the South Island did not join the association before tho time the books wore closed, but they remained registered in the South Island Flock Book. It seems absurd, he adds, that shcGp of assured breeding and inspection should not bo admitted when bit light to the North Island, simplv because their owners did not register at tho time of compilation of the first volume. "L tako it," says Mr. Birch, "that the objcct of a breed society should be 1? , ? a rp sister ol> nil pure, sheep of Uat class which are maintained at a proper standard of quality, and that it is noc politic or right' to confine entries ™ t'losc who entered at a certain (late, thus treating a clo : c monopoly."

DAIRY PRODUCE. MR. ,T. R, SC'OTT ON THE PROSPECTS. . The secretary of thci Smith Island .Tiairy Association (Mr. ,T. ]{~ Seott), on hn return to Dniu-din after visiting the Palmerston North show, informed an ' Utu;;o Daily Times" report:'!' that tho l-rosp-jct- in dairying districts in the Aortu were that there would bo a J>i£» -■linking of butter and elite.,c vcrv c.-.-iily this year. A considerable nuautity of uutter was still beinji made, and the .Stock of some (11,000 boxes of-butler in j nro still keeps up. Evenluallv somo of I lls would probably have to be shipped Home to clear the market. The seiierM opunon of those competent tc jud:;e, said Jlr. ocutt, -is that prices will be vonpeed next season or will be about as goo'l as tho.«e paid last season.