FROZEN SHEEP AND LAMBS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 11 August 1913, Page 4

FROZEN SHEEP AND LAMBS.

For some years past the Mastertou. A. and P. Association has been off err ing prizes for pens of sheep and lambs moat suitable; for the London market. The exhibits have been judged at the local &hows, and afterwards judged by experts at Home; At the annual meeting of the Association on Saturday list, Mr James McGregor drew; attention to the difference of opinion between the local ; judges and,- the judges at Horaaie. In not a single instan,o§i was the exhibit which was awarded first prize at Sol way last year given a similar place by the HomeJ judges. In ptfint of majority of the sheep that were given prizes at Solway were passed out by the English experts. The Association should immediately consider its position in this matter. We suggest to,the Committee that the local judging of the sheep is- not only unneces-: r stay, but is positively injurious to the industry. A settler,-for instance, niay .exhibit his filieep locally and not get /4 pi ace. He determines, thereto change his breeding methods; and Jie purchasers rams atfthe fair, ■froniiih© flock bee,n i givejri the first prize. Me subsequently'learns that, he has made a grave .mistake, his own sheep, haying . been ■ placed;. first by ,the English ■ perts, and thcT nowhere. After, -all,, it" is the sheep" that best suits the London- market that' should .be bred, and. it is .the judgment of the English experts that, counts.- We suggest, therefore, that the Association would -be consulting the beart interests of the'frozen meat trade and of" the settlers of the disrt'riot, by abandoning the local judging. and submitting ,its pens of freezes solely to the judgment of the Homo experts.