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Title: The journal of the Ministry of Agriculture.
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Great Britain. Ministry of Agriculture
Subjects: Agriculture Agriculture
Publisher: London : Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
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of Suffolk sheep at the Highland Societys ShowIS one of high merit, while those who have ventured to sendSouth to the Royal and Smithfield Shows have taken highpositions. At the Kelso ram sales in 1920. 361 Suffolk ramlambs, mostly bred in Scotland, averaged £22 16s. 7d. with atop price of £170. One-quarter of the whole of the awardswon by Suffolk crosses at Smithfield have been won by Suffolk-Cheviot crosses from the North, while from August onwardsSuffolk crosses frequently top the northern lamb sales. Suffolksand Suffolk crosses have won the championship eight times andresen-e for championship seven times at the Scottish NationalFat Stock Show. In 1919 Suffolks and Suffolk crosses werechampions at Smithfield, Edinburgh arid York. In Ireland thebreed also does well: there are to-day registered flocks in13 counties, and though they do not realise such high pricesas in Great Britain they might do so if breeders brought themout in as good a condition and in show form. A few reeognise
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Fig. 2.—Suffolk Ewe Teg?, 17 ir.onths old. 1922.) Suffolk Sheep. 883 the necessit) of doing this and reap the reward—both as a goocladvertisement and also in prize money and sales—but as a rulethey are not done well enough. It is reasonable to believe that the Suffolk would not havespread as it has done nor won such success in competition withother breeds were it not for the combination of fine qualitiesit possesses. Its hardiness is proved by its success as acoloniser. In point of early maturity, well-grazed hoggets,under usual farming conditions, at the age of 8 -to 10 monthsyield 78 to 84 lb. of dressed carcass, and the leading positionmaintained in the Smithfield carcass tests at above detailed isproof positive of it. The fecundit)^ of the Suffolk, due to its^N^orfolk ancestry, is proverbial. As a New South Wales breederwell puts it: •The beauty of this breed (I am referring to its bank accountbeauty) is that it produces both quantity and quality. My experiencehas been tha

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