PRESERVATION OF HERDS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2459, 12 May 1915, Page 8

PRESERVATION OF HERDS

The problem of the presen'ation of is one which is at present confronting many countries including the Commonwealth of Australia. Messrs. H. n. Bathgate and Co., a firm which usually confines its attention to the cereal n.arkets, remarks'on this subject; "We are sorry to find that farmers in this country are killing their live stock at an excessive rate.' Our point of view Js that the present is a most opportune moment for greatly increasing the •number of stock in the British isles. 1 hough feeding stuffs are a' little dear ,Mt moment, there is every probability that they will be extremely cheap after the war, if not before. Farmers will then be able to feed all kinds or stock on the most advantageous terms, and they should be ready for such an event by maintaining and augraentuig their present holdings. Germany, now completely cut off from outside is killing pi KS and other stock at an abnoimal rate, and the same thing is going on in Austria-Hungary. Germany in recent years has been.one of the heaviest importers of feeding- stuffs and it therefore stands to reason that' it its animal population ho reduced bv half tho greater part of the surplus of feeding stuffs will have to find its way to this country, however low the P rl( j o ' , 6 therefor© say unhesitatingly that at- no very distant future the prico of feeding stuffs ought to be most favourable to our stock breeders and farmers. In Argentina the position became so serious some time ago tb P + \°. re SUR r G . stecl f or checking tho trouble, and m some South' American States the killing of young heifers is prohibited by Regulation which, however, is stated to bo honoured more in tho breach than in tho obsorvauco. Ob Friday we iffcred a sraali tntiy^ 7 of g e a 0 t od tre rd i ß or.^ ttle pric h of!i 3 lambs, 13>s. el 7df; fat cois"/ £5- gj"? Wto h toVliinS?™ ' close ""fi us. 10 All; child's pony, £8. 10e. conference'is also be asked to a tax on tires "ected toh v £?« the funds so colapplied solely to tho upkeepof the main roads of the Dominion.