N.Z. FARMER IN RUSSIA
HEEP were naturally one of the things the New Zealand farmer John Hall asked about when he was in Moscow last year, for he runs a good many on his Mid-Canterbury farm, But the sheep-farming republics of the U.S.S.R,, he was told, were all in the far south. A 12-hour flight, with stops here and there, eventually landed him in Armenia, and 70 miles from the capital and about 6000 feet up in the mountains he found the State stud sheep farm, which he describes in one of his talks, A New Zealand Farmer in Russia. These talks will be heard from YA stations during the next three months, starting from 3YA on May 1 and 1YA on May 6; also, from May 11, in the extended 2YA Farm Sessions. Because of its elevation, the stud farm was not unlike a South Island high-country run, but with only about 18 inches of rain a year it had the appearance of Central Otago in late autumn. There is a growing demand for young "Soviet Merino" rams to improve the local coarse-woolled sheep, Mr. Hall found, and in this work artificial insemination is used on a big scale with
10 times better coverage than natural breeding. Mr, Hall also visited a collective farm on the Armenian plains, and in his talk discusses not. only farming conditions there, but his impressions of the collective as a substitute for small village life in old Russia,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 34, Issue 873, 27 April 1956, Page 16
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