SHEEP FOR AMERICA.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3341, 20 November 1919, Page 7

SHEEP FOR AMERICA.

PURCHASES OF STUD '.‘STC)C‘K. C.U..IFORNIAN’S HIGH PRAISE. CHRISTCHURCH, Nov. 13. A Californian p*.=Lstora~list, Mr G. B. Shaw, al'rived in Christehureli from America last week for the purpose of visiting the metropolitan show and securingsome of the best of the stud sheep in the elas"§es that are most filVO«lll'Cd ‘in.’ Callltel'blll'y.j 'Lzltel' Mr Shaw will visit all the large sheep stulions of the province and exeliange views with breeders, his idea being that America should take advantage of the best niethqds adopted ‘in sheep reziring in New Zealand, while New Zealand breeders should assiinilavte the best of tlle American methods. Mr Shaw admits frankly that the sheep section at the I\:[etl‘opolitan. Show was an “eye-opener” to him, the exliibits in several of the sections being superior to the English sheep of the same class. The only class in which he considered the United States was ahead was Merinos. AM,r Shaw predicts that during the next. three years there will be most active business relations between American breeders and those of New Zealaind. Aniiefrictmls, he said, are fully valire to -the necessity of in; creasing their flocks considerably, -and they are setting about the business by securing the Very best stud sheep pi-o~ seurnble- New Zealan(l~h-arl at great name throughout the "United States for its mutton and wool, and Anstralizi also in certain breeds. It is Mr Shaw’s int,enti'on to first disp-léty his New Zealmnl purchases at the Californian show to be held in Sun Frtinciseo next June.

At the S}l6\\'g‘l‘Ollllds yostc-rday, Mr C’. W_\'om‘Ellg. 'U.‘S.A., a hogget Col'l'ied'alo ram for 3-Oogns, the highest price paid at the show for ‘a considerable time. The same vendor also sold to Mr G. B'. {\‘haw 7.1 Corriodale 1-9.111 for 200g11s, also a two-tooflmd. Covriodnlo lam for ?.Oogns, and to Mr T. F. Salmon, ‘Of New Sou‘rh \Va~los. :1 t\\'o~toothcd Corriodalo ram for 150gns.