FROZEN SHEEP AND LAMBS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1826, 12 August 1913, Page 8

FROZEN SHEEP AND LAMBS.

A MATTER OF JUDGING, It is customary for tlie leading A. and I'. Associations who hold their allows in the autumn to offer special prizes i'or pens of sheep ami lambs most suitable tor 'the London market. Theso exhibits aro judged locally, and again by Home experts. • At the animal mc<\lin'g of the Masterton Society on Saturday last attention was drawn to tlio difference of opinion between the local and Homo judgments. In point of fact, tho majority of i-heep that were given prizes at Sol way were passed over by the Jtinglish judges. In no single instance was the local fjrst award sustained. It has been suggested that the local judging of tho sheep is not only unnecessary; but it positively injurious to tho industry. A farmer, for instance, may exhibit his sheep locally, and not get a placo in the prize list. On that experience ho may determine to change his breeding methods. He subsequently learns that lie. has made a gravo mistake when ho gets the English returns. For this reason it is urged in some quarters 'that associations would be consulting the best intorcsts of the frozen meat trado anil tlio fanners by abandoning the local judging, and submitting the pens of freezers solely to tho judgment of the Home buyers. It is the sheep thai' best suits the London market that should be bred, and it is tho - judgment of the English experts that count's. When discussing the proposed Board of Agriculture at a meeting of the Clutha Farmers' Union meeting the chairman referred to the question of appointments, and condemned the nominative system. Ho considered the board should 1» directly representative of the farmer. He also disagreed entirely with having tho officers of. tho Agricultural Department under the Public Service' Commissioners. Tho whole system would Ix] unworkable if the board, had no power to dismiss an officer who was incompetent. ' Managers who use "Victor" Vats declare thev are, the best. From overv point of view, the "Victor" is unequalled. Tho sloping bottom and. centre drainage system enables tho factory to turn out cheeso of superior quality—and that means better prices, and oetter profits. The workmanship of the'"Victor" is perfect, every joint: being perfectly fitted and sound. This is the. season 10 overhaul vour plant, if you want best results;'install a "Victor" where a new vais needed, and let I'arton repair or relino tho old ones. Then you 11 agree with other managers that "Victor Vats aro supreme, and I'arton is the man lor repairs. Albert J. Parton, Plumber, Carterton.—Advt.