DOMINION'S STOCK

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 10, 27 January 1937, Page 15

DOMINION'S STOCK

"Hemisphere's Stud Farm" ' * DEVELOPING 0F HPES Gradually we are developing types of sheep particularly suited to this cocn-' para,tively new country, but there is si/ili too great a mixture of both wool and sheep types in the average flock, states a writer m The New Zealand Herald. This can only be reetified by intelligent breeding and culling combined. It is to be hoped that the prosperiiy which now promises for tho sheep farming industry will encourage interest and expenditure tp secure this advanee. ' New Zealand is rapidly winning to tke enviable position of being the stud farm of the southern .hemisphere. Our best animals are widely sough't after by wool growers in other countries, because they produce better results than those which can be seeured elsewhere, and' the produce from the progeny of these animals is always 'coming into keener competition with our own. While by no means advocating a restritcion oi the export of our stud stock, it is well for us to fully appreciate their merits, afid see that we fetain and utilise the best for the improvement of our own flocks. Many worthy characteristics besides those of the prophet fail to win honour in their own country, and it is time we awoke to the fact that we are sending out of New Zealand cheaper and better sheep than we are importing. The rise in wool prices, it is to be hoped, will lift the load of anxiety^and hardship from the shoulde'rs of most of the sheep farming fraternity and en» able them to devote more time, thought and money to improving the stock under their care.