STUD SHEEP FOR AMERICA

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24414, 27 September 1940, Page 9

STUD SHEEP FOR AMERICA

TO THE EDITOR

Sjr,—ln Monday's Daily Times appeared an article on the opinions of Professor J. F. Wilson, of the College of Agriculture, University of Cahfronia, about Australian and New Zealand sheep, and the fact that he intends to buy Corriedales from Aus-

tralia and merinos from New Zealand. This seems to be a contradictory state of affairs, as Australia has always been recognised as the original home of the merino. Indeed, many merino rams are exported each year to New Zealand and elsewhere. New Zealand, on the other hand, has always been recognised as the original home of the Corriedale. In fact, the Corriedalf estate is only a few miles from Oamaru How is it then that a professor from an agricultural college decides to buy merinos from New Zealand and Corriedales from Australia? Can it be that New Zealand has beaten Australia at her own game, and vice verse, or is it that, for Californian purposes, there is a more suitable type of merino in New Zealand, and that the same can be said of the Corriedale in Australia? As Professor Wilson is coming over here shortly no doubt he will undertake to enlighten us on this paradoxical problem.—l am, etc., J. O. H. Tripp. Hakataramea, Sept. 23.