PEDIGREE LIVESTOCK

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXIX, Issue 13138, 12 September 1940, Page 6

PEDIGREE LIVESTOCK

BRITISH SHIPMENTS TO FOUR CONTINENTS

Four Continents have been making purchases of British pedigree livestock since Germany’s invasions cut breeders off from several important sources of supply. Within the British Commonwealth three Border Leicester rams, three Cheviot rams and three Wensleydale rams have gone to India. Kenya has taken a Large White sow and the Federated Malay States have purchased a bbar and gilt of the Middle White breed. Large White and Middle White sows have also gone to Palestine.

Two Large White boars have been bought by Sweden; a Berkshire and a Middle White boar by Japan. A stallion, as well as bulls, pigs and sheep have all been recently shipped to South America.

The stallion, a thoroughbred sired by the historic Blandford, has been shipped to the Republic of Colombia a country ' which has always been well disposed towards English stock; the Colombians have also taken a bull of the South Devon breed, which won the championship at the South Devon Cattle Society’s show in April this year, and a bull of the Red Poll breed. Both of these are fine big beasts admirably adapted to the production of good quality beef cattle. Another famous English beef breed, the Hereford,- is represented by two bulls which have been shipped to Uruguay. Chile has taken a Large White boar, a ram and* three ewes of the Hampshire Down breed. The latter, which have just arrived, have already delighted the buyers, who declare that there are no better animals of their type in all Chile. Breeders in both hemispheres, it is felt, are fortunate in the maintenance from Great Britain, the world’s principal source of pedigree livestock, of the supply required for the infusion of new blood into their herds.