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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 19 November 1927, Page 12

During October, 1927, tire Dominion has increased her exports of all classes of meat with the exception of beef. The figures in parenthesis are the quantities for October, 1926. Beef, quarters. 3.026 (4,033); mutton, c/s, 123,786 (119,782); lamb, 119,176 (109,380). * * *

In New Zealand, perhaps even more than in Australia, the primaryproducer is the foundation of the country’s prosperity. One talks of the bank rate; of the financial stringency; of the increase in interest for overdraft accommodation ; of the restriction in hank advances. But always the talk, the analysis, lands one way out where the sheep wander the plains: where the grain wishes green heads through the soil, and where the milk herds wander the grass-clad hillsides. # • •

A fine droving feat has been accomplished by a couple of Australians, Messrs. Jackson Bros., who. in charge of 12 drovers, succeeded in driving 1250 bullocks and 1164 mixed cattle from Moreston Downs, in the Camooweal district, to Fitzroyvale, a distance of 1400 miles, with the loss of only 18 head. The journey occupied fi've and a-half months.

A few years ago the AberdeenAngus breed had no classification at the great show at Palermo, Buenos Aires. At the show this year entries of the breed stood second in point of numbers of all the ten cattle breeds represented, the earlier-in-troduced Shorthorn breed coming first, the Aberdeen-Angus second, the Hereford third and the Friesian breed fourth. In sheep the leading breeds were Lincoln, Merino, and Romney Marsh, while as far as entries of horses were concerned, the leading breeds were the Pei’cheron and the Clydesdale.