STUD SHEEP RESEARCH

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21192, 15 August 1940, Page 14

STUD SHEEP RESEARCH

AMERICAN PROFESSOR’S VISIT (By Telegraph.—Special to Times) AUCKLAND, Wednesday Professor J. F. Wilson, professor of animal husbandry at the University of California, passed through Auckland by the Mariposa today. After about six weeks in Australia he will return to New Zealand and spend three months here. Professor Wilson, who is a specialist m sheep and wool, expects to purchase a number of Romney and Corriedale rams in the Dominion, and also a small flock of Merinos from the South Island. The Merinos will be incorporated in the sheep breeding research programme of the University of California. His longest 6tay in New Zealand, Professor Wilson said, would be at Massey College. This college, although very young in years, was already widely known in America for its research in pasture management and wool. Professor Wilson recalled that in 1919-20 110 Anzacs stopped at the instance of the Governments of Australia and New Zealand for a full school year at the University of California, primarily to study pig farming and irrigation. He had 30 of these men in one of his classes, and hoped to renew acquaintance with some of them during his coming visit.