SHEEP-FAKING.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10191, 18 March 1911, Page 4

SHEEP-FAKING.

It is somewhat of a coincidence that, at a tim© when the alleged' "faking" of sheep is engaging the attention of farmers, in New Zealand, the subject should also be discussed in the Mother: Country,. One 'correspondent of the '"Farmer and Stockbreeder!'■; says fams. are'. ,trimmed hard' it <doe.s., not give the.; foreign buyer a nopportunity 'to -Se& .what he is getting, and. if he finds'' in the course* that he has paid about 100 guineas, with heavy travelling expenses, for a ram with a 'tippy' fleece, which is. his pet aversion, the Home breeders will probably find that they have lost at least one customer, if not several, for their best sheep.*' Another correspondent says:—"There is only one way, and that is. to throw the entire responsibility on the judge. I would require him to award the premiums only to sheep thoroughly characteristic of their breed. A. judge acting upon these lines, or a series of judges acting in that manner, would) more effectually and more quickly clear the showyard of any objectionable practise than a whole bookful of rules. It might not be popular with the exhibitors, but it would be popular with the well-wishers of the breed. Nothing can do greater harm to the reputation of any breed than for its showyard specimens to be other than characteristic of the type." .