BULLETIN ON HALFBRED RAMS

Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21245, 17 August 1934, Page 7

BULLETIN ON HALFBRED RAMS

TO THE EDITOR Off THE PRESS. Sir, —I was pleased to see Mr C. H. Elisor's letter in "The Press" of August 8 on the proposed wool levy. With every word I heartily agree. I was also greatly impressed with the Lincoln College bulletin on halfbred rams. I think it would be a good thing to put it into pamphlet form and supply it to the different farmers' unions for distribution among sheep breeders. But there are one or two poipts that "ould be made plainer. For instance, author does not make it plain what he means by "n?.lfbrcd country." I take it that he means that halfbreds will do on rougher, harder country than Corriedales; but there are thousands of acres of good country running flocks bred from first cross rams on which I know v-orriedales will thrive. I think it would make the bulletin plainer for the average man to add something like this. When a man has a flock bred from first cross Lincolnmerino rams, every ewe has a merino grand-dam and a Lincoln grandsire, to say nothing of the ram; and as their offspring may resemble any of their ancestors up to five or more generations back, how can J he expect to breed anything like an even flock? — Yourg, etc., BREEDER. Blenheim, August 15, 1034.