"POPOTUNOA" STUD ROMNEYS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9590, 9 September 1909, Page 3

"POPOTUNOA" STUD ROMNEYS.

REMARKABLE SUCCESS AT SOUTHERN SHOWS.

The name of Mr J. R. Mackenzie, of Clinton, is one which, in tfte pastoral and agricultural world, is synonrnoua with high-class stock of every breed in which he is interested, and during the past season (1908) his enterprise has been rewarded by securing one of the most remarkable records of success ever achieved by an individual exhibitor with a similar number of exhibits in the sheep section at the Otago and Southland shows. At the last Dunedin show, with only five sheep on exhibition, he annexed three first prizes, one second, and one third prize, besides the championship for rams and the New Zealand Romney sheepbteeders' shield. At Gore show he had both champion ram and ewe, besides other prizes, and at the Southland show, Invercareill, ha secured two firsts, a second, and a third—truly, a splendid achievement when it is remembered that some of the best Romney j sheep in the Dominion were competing. j It may be mentioned that at Gore I and Invercargill hoggets only were ] exhibited by Mr Mackenzie, wnieh \ makes his record all the more remarkable. Writing on March Bth, 1909, re the above, Mr Mackenzie states: "All these were dipped in Quibells', and my Dunedin champion ram had one of the prettiest fleeces one could wish to see on a sheep. . A good dip does wonders " We would point out that Mr Mackenzie's opinion of the superiority of Quibell's Dip a3 an improver of the growing fleece is exactly on a par with those of the world's most famous pastoralists. who have tested it on level terms against all other sheepdipping preparations *