SHEEP FOR JAPAN.
BUYING. IN AUSTRALIA. MELBOURNE, Sept. 30. After ' having toured, the southern Riverina and purchased 40 ■^ e ” u 0 ewes. 210 Corriedale ewes, and 10 Cor- , riedale rams for the Japanese Experimental Farm in Hokkaido, Mr OkammotoV an .officer of the Japanese .Government, has arrived in Melbourne. “We have only 16,000 sheep at present. because the farms 1 are small, and both sheep and cattle have to be handfed-,” he says. . “It is not our aim to compete as a woolgrower. We simply desire to evolve a type of. sheep which will thrive ion the moisture of our irrigation areas.” .
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Shannon News, 8 October 1926, Page 3
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102SHEEP FOR JAPAN. Shannon News, 8 October 1926, Page 3
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