MERINO SHEEP FOR CALIFORNIA
* SYDNEY, Sept. 21. The profe sor of animal husbandry at the University of California (Professor J. F. Wilson) arrived in Sydney to-day on his way to Southland, New Zealand, where he will buy about 80 Merino stud rams and ewes for export to California. He said he bought some New Zealand Merinos four years ago for the University of California, and his university had proved by experiment that for wool alone the New Zealand Merino was 50 per cent, more prolific than any indigenous strain. Under the Australian law Merinos could not be exported to the United States, but America could buy from New Zealand a very fine type of Merino bred in Southland from South Australian Merino stock. ■ Merinos imported by New Zealand from Australia could not be re-exported to the United States. Only the progeny could be exported. .
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Press, Volume LXXX, Issue 24370, 23 September 1944, Page 3
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