FEED FOR WOOL
“Calculations indicate that for the average sheep efficiency of conversion (food to wool) is high until a weight level is reached of approximately 10 or 111 b of greasy fleece and this Would appear to be a reasonable level of production to have as an aim,” Dr. A. E. Henderson, head of the wool department at Canterbury Agricultural College, said at the annual conference of the New Zealand Grassland Association in Gisborne this week. “If animal food can be grown cheaply as it can in areas of high fertility and kind climate then the fleece weight aim may be higher and yet still allow a high efficiency of utilisation. The converse applies where provision of a balanced diet in any quantity is costly.” Dr. Henderson, who was speaking about the relationship between feed and quantity and kind of wool produced, told his listeners that at the lowest levels of food intake there was the highest efficiency of conversion of food to wool and the efficiency of utilisation decreased at an ever-increasing rate as food intake was raised to higher levels.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 29070, 5 December 1959, Page 8
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183FEED FOR WOOL Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 29070, 5 December 1959, Page 8
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