RABBIT HEADS LAMB
Rabbit meat Is bringing more on Smithfield market than New Zealand lamb. A North Otago farmer. Mr R. H. T. Cameron, of Marchwood, Georgetown, who has recently returned from a visit to Britain, told the poultry farmers* refresher course at Lincoln this week that a farmer in Yorkshire who had 800 does was netting as much from each doe as New Zealand farmers were grossing annually from a ewe. This farmer was getting up to one hundredweight of rabbits liveweight a year a doe. When he had visited Smithfield, Mr Cameron said he had found Chinese rabbits selling from 2s 5d to 2s Bld per lb and Australian rabbits making 2s 5d to 2s 6d per lb. New Zealand lamb was selling st Is 8d to Is lid per lb.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29513, 13 May 1961, Page 6
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