SALE OF 3000 BLACK SHEEP.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 75, 20 July 1914, Page 4

SALE OF 3000 BLACK SHEEP.

Messrs Watt and Abbott, Quirindi, recently held a sale of black sheep,which it is believed constitutes a record foi Australia, if net the world. These sheep constitute the well-known Barsham mixed flock of about 3000 allblack shoop. This flock was started about 30 years ago by the late Mr F. R. White, of Harben Vale, Blandford, after many years of careful breeding. Mr Abbott purchased the flock and continued to carefully breed for the allblack sheep, and so far succeeded that for several seasons past in a drop of about 000 lambs less than 2 per cent, have had to be classed out as not true to color and type. The purchasers of this unique flock are Messrs Keenan Bros., of Orange. At the time this flock was started, black wool was worth more than white, and the idea of the originator was to produce as true a type of black sheep as the white. Latterly, however, black wool has had no special demand.