NEW ZEALAND LAMB IN LONDON.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9659, 25 November 1909, Page 6

NEW ZEALAND LAMB IN LONDON.

It has been frequently urged by the most competent authorities that if New Zealand products are to maintain the position they at present hold on the London market, no point making for the perfection of these products can afford to be overlooked. Other countries are now becoming more and more alive to the importance of this market, therefore it behoves New Zealand growers of lamb, etc,, to be vigilant. The following paragraph from the Otago Witness of 16lh June is significant. It clearly sets forth the situation at the consuming end, and nproducer can afford to ignore the reo quirements of his customers —i.e.. "Exporters confine their operations almost entirely to Jambs, the class of mutton offering not being what they want, and they only buy a few prime, lightweight carcases. These are few and far between,'" etc., etc. Why are such carcases few and far between? Simply because sheepfarmers in general do not study suffi ciently the means whereby "prime lightweight carcases" can be produced. The essentials are at least three in"number: First—The production of the most rapid maturing cross. Second—A sufficient supply of the most fattening feed—i.e., rape, etc. Third —The cleansing of the lambs from all parasitic filth. The advantages of the first two are in a great measure lost if the latter is not strictly attended to. No lambs infested with parasites can thrive. The manager of the North British and Hawke's Bay Freezing Company's farm at Puketapu, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand, has conducted exhaustive experiments in dipping, and he positively asserts that the difference in weight between half of a flock of lambs which he dipped in Quibell's Liquid Dip and the other half of the same flock which he allowed to run on similar feed undipped was quite 31b per head on an average at the end of a month's time, when both lots were slaughtered. Such an advantage no sheepowner can afford to lose in these days of low mutton and wool values. The splendid results which follow the use of Quibell's Liquid Njnpoisonous Dip for dipping lambs intended for short keep are such that ro sheepowner who wishes to make the most of his lambs can afford to dispense with them.*