GLAND-GRAFTED SHEEP.
AS BIG AS OXEN. VORONOFF’S LATEST IDEA. PARIS, March 16. Dr. Voronoff announces that his experiments in 1924 in grafting an extra gland on healthy sheep were a revelation, but the expenses were heavy. He has now discovered that the offspring of grafted sheep were eight pounds heavier at five months than lambs from sheep untreated. Dr. Voronoff proposes to graft glands upon the offspring of treated sheep now with a view to breeding sheep as big as oxen, but to obtain the maximum quantity of wool Dr. Voronoff has been requested to send an expert to New Zealand to give instruction in the method. He adds: “ Sheep which usually die at fourteen years, when treated, live to twenty. Instead of enduring old age for four years they die suddenly in a week, the same thing as probably occurs with human beings.” Dr. Voronoff is going to Algeria for n fortnight to experiment at the Government ranch with three thousand sheep.—(A. and N.Z.)
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Wairarapa Age, 18 March 1927, Page 5
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165GLAND-GRAFTED SHEEP. Wairarapa Age, 18 March 1927, Page 5
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