Trees For Sheep?
jt looks as if we might have to face the possibility "" of vistra or lanital supplanting wool to some extent. So what? The poorest of our sheep country would, I suppose, cease producing wool firstrougher high country in the: South Island and those North Island areas where even now farmers have difficulty working against scrub. fern, second growth,
and soil erosion. We could afforest such country-and by doing that we could protect better country from destruction — we eould avoid any possible timber famine and perhaps provide raw materials for some secondary industries, Our third class sheep eountry doesn’t produce much meat-it’s mainly wool. We could still breed for meat — perhaps more intensively than
we do now-on easier country- ("Changing Bases of Society,’ K. B. Cumberland in discussion with Dr. Page and C. G. F. Simkin, 3YA, July 9)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 110, 1 August 1941, Page 5
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