BIG SHEEP
The biggest sheep Is the most efficient converter of what it eats, “He eats more but he makes more use of what he eats.” Dr. A. E. Henderson, reader in wool at Lincoln College, told the high-country field day at Mount Burke station near Lake Wanaka recently. This had been shown in a variety of experimental work. It had also been found that the sheep that was most efficient in one environment was • also most efficient wherever it was put, but the outlook of the sheep in different circumstances had to be taken into account. Thus the outlook of a Romney on the hill would be entirely different to that of a Merino.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29744, 10 February 1962, Page 6
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