THE VANISHING MERINO.
la his annual report, tha Secretary -for Agriculture (Mr J. D. Ritchie) states that the decrease in the merino flocks continues, and intensifies the difficulty of maintaining the production ot half-bred wool and mutton and lamb of the fine quality for which the Dominion has been famed. Wool of half-bred quality, combing staple, and lustrous colour, has been less affected than any other class of cross-bred wool by the recent adverse movements of the market, and it is year by year becoming scarcer. In the meat-market, too, the demand for small mutton of fine quality,at a substantial premium in j.rice, is unsatisfied. Without merino ewes as a foundation for the halfbred nV.:ks there will be greater need than ever for the exercise of care and intelligence in sheep-breeding, not only in stud flocks, but aiso in the standing flocks of the runs and farms.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3011, 7 October 1908, Page 3
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147THE VANISHING MERINO. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3011, 7 October 1908, Page 3
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