STUD SHEEP FOR AMERICA

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 44, 15 November 1919, Page 10

STUD SHEEP FOR AMERICA

'By Telegraph.—Special Correspondent. Christchurch, November' U. ' 1 Ditrins the past week or two an American sheep buyer has been in Canlerl)ury 011 the look-out for stud sheep for America. During tlie Metropolitan Show he has' purchased three of Mr. Ensor's Btud Corriedalo rams, one at 300 guineas, and two at 150 guineas,. H; has .also taken some from ?.[■/.'StrinKfellow's and other well-known flocks. It is well \ known that Corriedales are bciiiß bred extensively in America, more especially in the Utah district, and it is satisfactory to know that a buyer Urns come lo the Dominion tn replenish the stock* of the bresjd, and .it is to be hoped that lie will l:o the forerunner of others, and thai) a trade will bo established in this and other lines of stock, the same f..-' was done if the early dnvs with lh<> Argentine, where the best floc.vs n 'J(! wvj'o founded upon stock from fccw Zealand:, Tie NeW Zealahd ;Fapiiers'';Distribut-it*lirst-sale fit Hun* terville on T)nir,i<);iy in the new epncivto yards, tho first of (ho kind in the Dominion (states a Press Association meseajre). Six hundred head vero entered, and good priccs were realised, practically every-lino 'being'sold'. ' Three huudreu farmers \vers present, '