Yellow Sheep.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 180, 30 January 1895, Page 2

Yellow Sheep.

The following letter which is" of gr«at interest to sheepfarmers, appeared in the Mercury of yesterday : — To the Editor.— Sir, Thinking that it might be of some use to your readers I venture to send you thefollowing :— lt is not generally known that there are more yellow sheep, when slaughtered among Rotnney'a than Lin* coin's To satisfy myself I wrote to Mr D. Sladden, secretary of the Wellington Meat Export Company for the last nine or ten years during which time about 2,000,000 sheep have passed through the works. To make it plain, what is meant by yellow sheep — They are, when slaughtered, yellow although in good condition, but owing to the colour they are condemned as freezers, and consequently worth only one half The following is Mr Sladden's reply with respect to yellow sheep : — *' I should think we get 3 to 1 out of Bomney's as compared with Lincoins. I should say that most of theyellow sheep we get are Eomneys ovhaveEotuney blood in them. More than that,, the proportion of the yellow sheep in the Romneys has increased in the last 5 or © years and in my opinion the sheep areyellower. We get a few yellow sheep out of the Lincolns but generally not so dark as the Romneys.— G. Sladden." It wouldfbe of importance to sheepfarmers if if this could be accounted for. — Yours, etc. Donald Fraser.