CROSSING ZEBU CATTLE
Encouraging ivesults . In ;■ • ;."' Queensland ] ^ " '7 Experiments " in -crossing . Zobu .>. and •ihiropean eattle in North (Queensland aro giving encouraging xesults." • « «• The object of mixing the two'-etrains is to obtain an animal which combines tbe..good0 (jualities of both breeds. Zebu catfle were.,imported in 1933, and by, crossing them wdth '..European breeds; since dhen, the following .faets have been established: Half bred Ze.bus aro,*toierant:of heat; the hump and hollow. ba-ek of the. Z,ebu are ■markedly reduced in ,, first crossi animals ; , cross animals; are v less subject ... to tick ; inf estation, and' hajlf bred Zebus are heavi'er than purebred European ' beasts. ^ ;.u: "The results of these- exgeriments," said the .Minister ( for . DeyelQpmont,.. Scnator McLachian^in Canberra rocently,' ."■niay prove^ of. cpnsiderable/ value . to ihe. . eattle indus.try of the north. V
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 190, 28 August 1937, Page 16
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128CROSSING ZEBU CATTLE Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 190, 28 August 1937, Page 16
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