NEW ZEALAND LAMB.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9668, 16 December 1909, Page 6

NEW ZEALAND LAMB.

THE DEMANDS OF THE CONSUMING PUBLIC. "The cry in London for a long time past has been for small carcases," so states the "Otago Witness," of June 16th, 1909; and this assertion is fully borne out by every man possessed of any practical knowledge of the situation as it exists to-day. Heavy carcases are not wanted, with the result that there is an enormous glut of this class on the London market at the present time, for which very low prices must be accepted to effect a clearance. Yet the production of the proper clasa—i.e., prime • light-weight carcases —involves only sound judgment and good management. The skilful manager wiil mate his ewes with rams of the most rapid maturing breeds; provide for the lambing ewes 'clean and abundant pasture, and for the lambs, on being weaned, an abundancs of the best fattening feed, such as rape, etc., to "top" them off: and, above all thiners, he will be careful that his exertions in the points of management ate not brought to nought by allowing his lambs to be worried by vermin. For cleansing sheep and lambs intended for short keep from ticks, lice, and other parasites, Quibell's Liquid Dip has no equal, as hundreds of the most practical sheepowners in New Zealand and Australia to-day who have tested it for this purpose against the best-known poiaonous and non-poisonous brands sheep dips can fully testify*