BRANDING STUCK.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 423, 16 December 1911, Page 6

BRANDING STUCK.

Recently a committee of pastoralists was set up to consider schemes submitted to the Agricultural Department for distinguishing between live.

stock of different owners. The committee has reported that it had 57 schemes placed before it, and many of them showed a great deal of ingenuity, but they ran more in the direction of providing for numerically ear-marking sheep than supplying to owners a simple, but distinct, mark which could not be obliterated, and the committee thinks an effort should .be made to find the largest number of marks which can be made by pliers which could remain distinct during the sheep's life and yet be easy of application. A number of the schemes provided for labels and studs being put; into sheep's ears, but while suitable for stud sheep the committee did not think it possible to adopt such a scheme for earmarking sheep of the Dominion. The same applies to the suggested branding of a mark on the sheep's face. The same applies to the suggested branding of a mark on the sheep's face. The committee thinks that the department should take steps to adopt a scheme 0:1 certain essential lines which it lays down. The registration of the lettering on are labels was considered, and it is recommended that when any amendment of the Stock Act is made, it should be permissable for any owner desiring to register a label, to do so. As there has been a generally expressed desire to permit the registration of woo! bale brands, the committee considers that the Patent Designs and Trade Marks Act might be amended so as to render permissable the registration, especially of any wool bale brand which is the name of a place, farm, or station.