SHEEP FOR RUSSIA.
BOUGHT IN UNITED STATES. NEW YORK, November 3. M. Pereferko witch _ and ,Profe=sor Michael Tvanov, representatives >ot the Soviet Commissariat, of Agriculture, recently arrived in New York to innuirc into American sheep breeduier. They have purchased .3000 purebred rams and etce-i in the United States for export to Russia for the purpose of improving the flocks in the Steppe and the mountain regions of the Caucasus, Turkestan and Siberia. The Soviet representative? state that Russia hopes to ultimately prow all the wool she requires for domestic puroopes. The first shipment of '1200 rnms has already crone forward to -Novo Ro?sisk. The Russians nre uot yet ready to undertake stud operations. The shipments are valued at £50.000 M. Pereferko-witrh states that it ■will bp necessarr to further purchases of fine-wool sheep this rear, and for munv venrs to come, before Russia can produce sufficient woo] to satisfy the needa of her industries.— i A.'* and N.Z. Cable.)
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Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 261, 4 November 1925, Page 7
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