SHEEP BREEDING.

King Country Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 112, 3 December 1908, Page 5

SHEEP BREEDING.

Wool-Growing Test

Mr G. Wheeler has proposed a scheme which is to be adopted by she Fielding A. ar.d P. Assoication, its object being- to provide a true and reliable list of the v.-00l growing power of pedigree sheep of the longwool breeds, much on the same lines as the competition promoted by the Canterbury Association for merinos. Mr Wheeler's proposal,, which was submitted at a meeting- of the Fielding Association on Friday, is as follows: — "That a competition be held between two-tooth and four-tooth rams of any long-woolled registered bred, to be shorn or reshorn with machines on a date to be fixed in December, 190S, in the presence of one or more persons appointed by the Fielding A. and P. Association, and the animals then to be handed over on the said association

Until they are again similarly shorn on a date to be arranged in 1909. The

fleeces shall then be weighed, wrapped up separately, and labelled and for warded to Wellington, to be scoured and dried separately on the same clay in Wellington in the presence of those appointed and any others interested. The fleeces shall then again be weighed. wrapped up and labelled as before, and consigned by the society to Mr Boilings, wool expert, England, for his report and valuation, the decision to be based upon the greatet net value, and the winner to be presented with the society's certificate. Entry fees to be 20s each sheep, and no one exhibitor to enter more than-- (three suggested). Good grazing to be obtained as near Aorangi settlement as possible. - ' A sub-committee is to bo appointed to carry out the contest and amend, if necessary, the suggested conditions.