RED POLLS FOR NEW ZEALAND
THE EXCHANGE OP CATTLE. Soma of tho Holstcin cattle that the 'Ken- Zealand Government is exchanging for Red Polls from the Victorian State herds have already left New Zealand. Tho total number to bo sent from tho State Farm at Weraroa is! sixteen', and it is expected-that the. same-number of Red Polls will be returned. The basis of the exchange is to be milk production, and there.may be a' slight .margin one way or the other. ■■■ The Minister of Agriculture (Hon. :W; D. S. Mac Donald), referring 10 tho exohango yesterday, said that L-o believed the introduction of a strain of Red Poll cattle from the Victorian Government's excellent herd would, be of great value to New Zealand dairymen. After a year or two the Government would bo able to sell ten or twelve bulls yearly for .the improvement of New Zealand milking herds. The Agricultural Department would not relax its efforts to maintain a. very good herd of Holstoins, but there was rooni at the experimental farms for tho other breed. Many private breeders Lad fine herds of pedigree Holstenis, moreover, and.to this extent tho responsibilities of tho Department wero lightened. :
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 87, 5 January 1918, Page 11
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197RED POLLS FOR NEW ZEALAND Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 87, 5 January 1918, Page 11
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