HEAVY HAMPSHIRES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 1981, 4 May 1885, Page 2

HEAVY HAMPSHIRES.

_ The Mark Lam Fxpms devotes con . siderablo space to an article showing the relative degrees of "u|%" to \yhioh the prize animals at Sraithfield attained, or, in other words, how they turned out under the butoher's hands, and this, we should fancy, is the only true sequel to an exhibition of fat stock. The Hampshire lambs, we arc told, bred and exhibited by ,Mr W. Parsons,. West Stratton, second prize in their class, were 307 days , days old, and weighed 2261k, or an average rate of daily gain of of O.Mbs: "They were slaughtered by Mr Chalk, of Forest Hill Two of the carcases wero

hanging outside the shop, and they looked like very large wethers, Wry ripe indeed',. The other sheep lean meat, as seen;ssi'' the hatfifl# cutoff, indeed'■'■Mffi<-, prawon to their Biijft-In fact, thS iftuTOi chop had not mote" lean meat Mb than* can be found any'day, in air&lMherVl shop, on a 651b. teg, if so much.; STherd " was one thing about these carcasl; 'however, which calls for special comment," namely, that there were legs, of real mutton on them, notwithstanding the fat." The cross-bred, lambs ,. (Cotswold • ram and Hampshire eweß), which secured the first prize, were 310, and 2901b5. in weight. "These 'lambs' were 41b. heavier than Mr-Parsons'' second prize' pen, but were not cut up, so that it was impossible to say what proportion of lean meat they had: but they were covered with outside fat like a bride-cake is with sugar, and must have been very wasteful."