IMPORTANT TO SHEEP FARMERS.
The following paragraph, which appeared in the Times of 18th July, has a great , significance for breeders of mutton in the colonies “Messrs Core, Smith, and Rodway sold by public auction, on the 16th inst., in their saleyard, Swindon, three pens of fat ewes, out of the wool, which had been fatted oh grass, without com or cake,at the following extraordinary prices, viz., 84s, 87s, and 81s per bead per pen.” The refrigerating companies ought to take comfort from these figures. The allusion to the fact that these sheep were fed without oilcake has an importance which may not be fully appreciated. It means that the mutton was in a thoroughly sound condition, free from the unpleasant flavour which is noticeable in meat fed on oilcake. It is the absence of this food that gives Australian vml New Zealand mutton the delicious flavour which is so characteristic of mutton naturally fed, but which is destroyed by the haste of breeders to fatten up their flocks at the earliest possible moment for the market.
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Patea Mail, Volume IX, Issue 1087, 17 September 1883, Page 2
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177IMPORTANT TO SHEEP FARMERS. Patea Mail, Volume IX, Issue 1087, 17 September 1883, Page 2
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