BREEDING COLLIES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4529, 21 September 1893, Page 2

BREEDING COLLIES.

% Next ty breeding siook and probably of first importance;? to the Bhephord aud the necesßity of having" realty; good %^; and reliable dogs.. Thia carl pnly be": attained by ; oareful study in;: Beleo--' tion of the best animals at command,-■:. and; not infrequently it .hasSbeen ;; diifiouittp obtain good then only' at famine prices..;-;Mr; jMoCandlish; iof fiimntftka(;Fafni,; ; : Peatherston, bas recognised stability of getting has in PM^^^^^Hi from some of the the' Old Country. TheseheWnow: placed at the service of the publio i of \ Wairarapa, and for. a moderate,y fee ;> they can obtain strains of "theTnioafc : celebrated ooUies ever imported in to New Zealand.; Ayrshire Laddie and. Clyde 11, are the dogs referred to, and a look at' Ibeir pedegrees will be; sufficient to satisfy.thoaost fastidious,: Clyde II; is' byfW-Ma'rquis,;-: imported', " and, thWinner of six , first and four, special. prizes at Melbourne, Ayrshire Laddie, is by ■'Mob,"—also an imported dog and winner of seventeen first and special, prizes. The dam "Ormskirk Stella"; is from . the celebrated Ormskirk kennels,' and the following extraot from a well-known Bporting paper shows the estimation -in whioh these kennels are kid!-" Another phenotaonal collio transaction is reported from England, Mr T, H. Stretoh has sold,the young dog Ormskirk Gold Dußt'for LSOO to tho Ohesnut Hill Kennelß,Amerioa. Only a few months ago the same breeder sold Ormskirk Ormonde (now balled Rufford Ormonde) for L7OO to Messrs ■ Holme and Hilliday.and about a year ago he exported Champion Chris* topher to America for LBOO oaah- and exchanges, Ho has thus netted L2OOO by the sale of three dogs. The only representative in the Colony of the moat famous exhibitor's konnol is Mr Ward's Ormskirk SMft'(w£o is herself a winnerof thirtecthjirst Drizes' in England) and ber litter of puppies" by Mr Stretch's champion Ormskirk Amazement."