MAGNIFICENT GRASS.

Taranaki Daily News, 16 February 1921, Page 6

MAGNIFICENT GRASS.

BUT COWS ARE INFERIOR. VISITOR’S HINT TO FARMERS. “A land of magnificent pastures and pooA cows” is the condensed criticism of New Zealand offered by a South African visitor. , Mr. E. W. Evans, president o-f the Agricultural Co-operative Union of South Africa, and Mr. Allister M. Miller, president of the South African Cattle Breeders’ Association, lia/e been touring Australia and New Zealand to study the cattle industry, and to secure stud stock for South Africa. They are very favorably impressed with the climate of New Zealand and express the opinion that New Zealand can be made the great stud country of the Southern Hemisphere. The future, they think, will be very closely associated with the dairying and breeding industries. , “But I am surprised,” continued Mr. Miller, “that a country with such pastures and such a climate as New Zealand should have, on the average, such poor cows. My investigations lead me to the conclusion that the field of the dairy herds, with some notable exceptions, is not what it should be, and that if New Zealand dairy farmgjs want to increase their profits all tliey have to do is to go in for a better class o-f cow.”