NEW ZEALAND RANCHERS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 796, 20 April 1910, Page 8

NEW ZEALAND RANCHERS.

HOW "THET HELPED OUR RIVAL. One of the most recent J.writers on Argentina, Mr. \VY,.H-;',Koebel; has quite a'deal fo say in his book about the way New; Zealanders have-.'taught the Argentine farmers to run their sheep stations. 'In scientific farming tho South American Jagged years -arid 'periods of years behind the New .and he ..had stocked his land anyhow.;' "Then; upon the scene," says Mr. Kdebel,."came.the New Zealander, acenstomed to watch jealously every , sovereign and, every acre, and accustomed to wTestle by main force with the land that all might be wr.ung from it that it would yield. The arrival of this 'graduate of a harder and more scientific school brought to light faults of which the Argentine had ' never been aware. There were lands in plenty that had carried sheep year after, year in quantities that they should never have been ex-pected-to support the rendering of artificial aid.". . . The newcomers settied down to work, and when they had dealt with it the. discovery "was made, to the; astonishment of the. Argentines, that'.th'e land would still : beav more sheep than before, and that, ; moreover, it would continue to do so 'beneath the persuasion of; intelligent treatment. It was. thus that the New Zealander began,' and as he began he-has gone on. He found sheep with undocked fails, and caused ; them to be docked.;. Ho discovered'a rampant condition of foot-rot, arid of other diseases, and demonstrated' the cures.. In fact, : he .has ..been tinkering* here, trimming and mending there, until ithe Argentine looks' about him in .surprise at the result. The latter, as.a consequence, has found-; it worth his .while of: late to. bestow..'upon, the sheep .some portion 'of : that ..-interest whScK. he had before lavished entirely on cattle.' In the matter - of sheep-forming there is no doubt [ about the debt of - gratitude' which is due from the Argentine to'the New Zealander." ■";-•■.. ■',;