STOCK BREEDING IN RUSSIA
Crossing With British Livestock (Rec. Id pan.) LONDON, August 2®. Russian farmers are crossing Britishbred livestock with their own to develop the best qualities in both, Sir James Scott-Watson, scientific adviser to the British Ministry of Agriculture, said in a recorded speech broadcast over Moscow Radio last night. He was giving his impressions of the Soviet agricultural exhibition in Moscow, which, he said, was “a most spectacular show" occupying a site of 600 acres—about twice as much as Britain’s Royal Agricultural Show. Sir James Scott-Watson, who is now back in England, said: “The Russians acknowledge that we know something about breeding farm animals, and they have made quite a lot of use of British herds. Hereford cattle, Berkshire and Large White pigs and Romney Marsh and Lincoln sheep are some of the breeds they have imported at one time or another. “They are crossing them with native breeds to get the hardiness and adaptability of their native stock with the better quality beef, mutton or pork of our livestock or its better milking capacity.”
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27442, 31 August 1954, Page 3
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